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Aaron Levie: ‘We have way too many manual processes in businesses’

4 views on the future of retail and the shopping experience

Salesforce stock is taking a hit today after lighter guidance in yesterday’s earning’s report

Daily Crunch: Trump takes aim at social media companies

How startups can leverage elastic services for cost optimization

Facebook takes on Twitter with Venue, a ‘second screen’ companion for live events

Cisco to acquire internet monitoring solution ThousandEyes

Twitter screens Trump’s Minneapolis threat-tweet for glorifying violence

New book: Understanding Swift

Trump signs an executive order taking direct aim at social media companies

Going to war with Twitter, Trump threatens critical social media legal protections

Daily Crunch: Twitter vs. Trump

Mirantis releases its first major update to Docker Enterprise

Wasabi announces $30M in debt financing as cloud storage business continues to grow

Jack Dorsey explains why Twitter fact-checked Trump’s false voting claims

Investors say emerging multiverses are the future of entertainment

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg shares his COVID-19 strategy and tactics

Docker expands relationship with Microsoft to ease developer experience across platforms

Instagram to test new revenue streams, including badges and IGTV ads

RudderStack raises $5M seed round for its open-source Segment competitor

Facebook launches Collab, a mix-and-match app for making collaborative music videos

Toro snags $4M seed investment to monitor data quality

Census raises $4.3M seed to put product info in cloud data warehouses to work

Kentik raises $23.5M for its network intelligence platform

After Twitter fact-check, Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media platforms

Google removes millions of negative TikTok reviews amid backlash in India

Twitter adds a warning label fact-checking Trump’s false voting claims

Twitter plans to expand its misinformation labels—but will they apply to Trump?

Extra Crunch Live: Join Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg for a live Q&A today at 2pm EDT/11am PDT

Baton raises $10M Series A to organize post-sale implementation

Scandit raises $80M as COVID-19 drives demand for contactless deliveries

This Week in Apps: Facebook takes on Shopify, Tinder considers its future, contact-tracing tech goes live

IBM confirms layoffs are happening, but won’t provide details

Facebook’s Workplace, now with 5M paying users, adds drop-in video Rooms and more

Extra Crunch Live: Join Box CEO Aaron Levie May 28th at noon PT/3 pm ET/7 pm GMT

Facebook makes big remote work moves with plan for new hubs in Dallas, Denver and Atlanta

Daily Crunch: Twitter tests limiting replies

The Trash app’s new features can create AI-edited music videos and more

11 VCs share their thoughts on enterprise startup trends and opportunities

6 CISOs share their game plans for a post-pandemic world

Facebook introduces new Messenger safeguard aimed at combating scams and fake friends

Couchbase raises $105M Series G funding round

Salesforce Commerce Cloud releases four quick-start pandemic business packs

Chief, the leadership network for women, raises $15 million in funding

Facebook’s new safety feature for women in India: Easily lock the account from strangers

Twitter is testing a feature that limits who can reply to your tweets

With BuzzFeed’s new feature, you can take a Quiz Party with friends

Google Cloud earns defense contract win for Anthos multi-cloud management tool

Daily Crunch: Facebook unveils its Shops e-commerce platform

Directly, which trains customer service chatbots with expert advice, raises $11M more

BetterCloud scores $75M Series F as SaaS management needs grow

FireHydrant lands $8M Series A for disaster management tool

Identity management startup Truework raises $30M to help you verify your work history

Facebook and Instagram roll out Shops, turning business profiles into storefronts

Daily Crunch: Disney’s streaming chief departs for TikTok

Microsoft launches industry-specific cloud solutions, starting with healthcare

Microsoft launches Azure Synapse Link to help enterprises get faster insights from their data

Microsoft launches Project Bonsai, its new machine teaching service for building autonomous systems

Algolia gets a new CEO as founder steps down

Europe to Facebook: Pay taxes and respect our values — or we’ll regulate

Arculus raises €16M to upgrade assembly lines with its ‘modular production platform’

Disney streaming exec Kevin Mayer becomes TikTok’s new CEO

Verizon wraps up BlueJeans acquisition lickety split

GO1, an enterprise learning platform, picks up $40M from Microsoft, Salesforce and more

Electric gets another $7 million in funding from 01 Advisors and the Slack Fund

The Great Reset

The real threat of fake voices in a time of crisis

(Formerly Augean) Burro is giving a helping hand to field workers

Facebook to acquire Giphy in a deal reportedly worth $400 million

Daily Crunch: Facebook is acquiring Giphy

Building and investing in the ‘human needs economy’

What’s new in Swift 5.3?

Facebook’s social Zoom competitor Messenger Rooms goes live globally

Microsoft is acquiring Metaswitch Networks to expand its Azure 5G strategy

Venafi acquires Jetstack, the startup behind the cert-manager Kubernetes certificate controller

Adobe announces AI toolbox for Experience Platform

Why we’re doubling down on cloud investments right now

Google makes it easier to migrate VMware environments to its cloud

Kustomer acquires Reply.ai to enhance chatbots on its CRM platform

Facebook, telcos to collaborate on most comprehensive subsea cable for Africa and Middle East

UK’s ANNA raises $21M for its SMB-focused business account and tax app

Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 era

Daily Crunch: Facebook will pay $52M to content moderators

VMware to acquire Kubernetes security startup Octarine and fold it into Carbon Black

Facebook launches Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, in the U.S.

FeaturePeek moves beyond Y Combinator with $1.8M seed

FortressIQ snags $30M Series B to streamline processes with AI-fueled data

Expel lands $50M Series D as security operations increases in importance

SirionLabs raises $44M to scale its contract management software

Facebook to pay $52 million to content moderators suffering from PTSD

Facebook upgrades its AI to better tackle COVID-19 misinformation and hate speech

Instagram adds new anti-bullying features, including tag controls, comment management tools

Daily Crunch: LinkedIn doubles down on virtual events

Atlassian acquires Halp to bring Slack integration to the forefront

LinkedIn ads polls and live video-based events in a focus on more virtual engagement

SiMa.ai announces $30M Series A to build out lower-power edge chip solution

UpKeep raises $36 million Series B to help facilities and maintenance teams go mobile

Microsoft partners with Redis Labs to improve its Azure Cache for Redis

LinkedIn ads polls and live video-based events in a focus on more virtual engagement

Reconnecting, reluctantly, with Facebook

Amazon releases Kendra to solve enterprise search with AI and machine learning

Instagram Lite shuts down in advance of a relaunch

Twitter to add labels and warning messages to disputed and misleading COVID-19 info