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September 30, 2020

Facebook introduces cross-app communication between Messenger and Instagram, plus other features

September 30, 2020

VTEX raises $225M at a $1.7B valuation for e-commerce solutions aimed at retailers and brands

September 30, 2020

Lee Fixel’s Addition leads $35 million investment in India’s Inshorts

September 30, 2020

Papaya Global raises $40M for a payroll and HR platform aimed at global workforces

September 30, 2020

Salesforce creates for profit platform to help governments distribute COVID vaccine when it’s ready

September 29, 2020

Facebook names VP of product growth Alex Schultz as new CMO

September 29, 2020

Ringing alarm bells, Biden campaign calls Facebook ‘foremost propagator’ of voting disinformation

September 29, 2020

How Twilio built its own conference platform

September 29, 2020

Pivoting during a pandemic

September 29, 2020

Facebook introduces Accounts Center, a tool for managing a growing number of cross-app settings

September 29, 2020

Datasaur snags $3.9M investment to build intelligent machine learning labeling platform

September 29, 2020

New program wants to be the Y Combinator for emerging fund managers

September 29, 2020

Axis Security raises $32M to help companies stay secure while working from home

September 29, 2020

PayCargo raises $35M from Insight for its cloud-based platform targeting the freight industry

September 28, 2020

Deep Science: Robot perception, acoustic monitoring, using ML to detect arthritis

September 28, 2020

Adobe beefs up developer tools to make it easer to build apps on Experience Cloud

September 28, 2020

Skydio partners with EagleView for autonomous residential roof inspections via drone

September 25, 2020

Privacy data management innovations reduce risk, create new revenue channels

September 25, 2020

Apple is (temporarily) waiving its App Store fee for Facebook’s online events

September 25, 2020

The highest valued company in Bessemer’s annual cloud report has defied convention by staying private

September 24, 2020

LinkedIn launches Stories, plus Zoom, BlueJeans and Teams video integrations as part of wider redesign

September 24, 2020

Facebook gives more details about its efforts against hate speech before Myanmar’s general election

September 24, 2020

NUVIA raises $240M from Mithril to make climate-ready enterprise chips

September 24, 2020

Airship acquires SMS commerce company ReplyBuy

September 24, 2020

India’s ShareChat raises $40 million, says its short-video platform Moj now reaches 80 million users

September 24, 2020

Ripjar, founded by GCHQ alums, raises $36.8M for AI that detects financial crime

September 23, 2020

Five years after creating Traefik application proxy, open source project hits 2B downloads

September 23, 2020

Facebook denies it will pull service in Europe over data transfer ban

September 22, 2020

Social networks are doing a voter registration blitz this week

September 22, 2020

Chinese propaganda network on Facebook used AI-generated faces

September 22, 2020

Daily Crunch: Microsoft launches Azure Communication Services

September 22, 2020

Microsoft challenges Twilio with the launch of Azure Communication Services

September 22, 2020

Microsoft brings new robotic process automation features to its Power Platform

September 22, 2020

Microsoft’s Edge browser is coming to Linux in October

September 22, 2020

Mirakl raises $300 million for its marketplace platform

September 22, 2020

HubSpot’s new end-to-end sales hub aims to simplify CRM for mid-market customers

September 22, 2020

Microsoft brings data services to its Arc multi-cloud management service

September 22, 2020

Microsoft Teams gets breakout rooms, custom layouts and virtual commutes

September 22, 2020

Microsoft launches new Cortana features for business users

September 22, 2020

Microsoft updates its Endpoint Manager with improved macOS support and more

September 22, 2020

Event discovery network IRL raises $16M Series B after refocusing on virtual events

September 22, 2020

EasySend raises $16M from Intel, more for its no-code approach to automating B2C interfaces

September 22, 2020

Uber for Business introduces a couple of commuting options to get to the office during the pandemic

September 22, 2020

TikTok says it removed 104M videos in H1 2020, proposes harmful content coalition with other social apps

September 21, 2020

Daily Crunch: This TikTok deal is pretty confusing

September 21, 2020

TikTok fact checks: US IPO, Chinese ownership, $5B in taxes

September 21, 2020

Facebook’s new Rights Manager tool lets creators protect their photos, including those embedded elsewhere

September 18, 2020

SaaS Ventures takes the investment road less traveled

September 18, 2020

Salesforce announces 12,000 new jobs in the next year just weeks after laying off 1,000

September 18, 2020

Instagram CEO, ACLU slam TikTok and WeChat app bans for putting US freedoms into the balance

September 17, 2020

Daily Crunch: Twitter tightens security ahead of election

September 17, 2020

Twitter tightens account security for political candidates ahead of US election

September 17, 2020

Perigee infrastructure security solution from former NSA employee moves into public beta

September 17, 2020

Facebook launches Facebook Business Suite, an app for managing business accounts across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger

September 17, 2020

APAC cloud infrastructure revenue reaches $9B in Q2 with Amazon leading the way

September 17, 2020

Narrator raises $6.2M for a new approach to data modelling that replaces star schema

September 15, 2020

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says the pandemic forced the company to reevaluate what work means

September 15, 2020

Twitter flags Indian politician’s years-old tweet for violating its policy

September 15, 2020

Fiverr Business helps teams manage freelance projects

September 15, 2020

In 2020, Warsaw’s startup ecosystem is ‘a place to observe carefully’

September 15, 2020

Triller aims for TikTok with additions of influencers like Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae

September 15, 2020

Twitter debuts US election hub to help people navigate voting in 2020

September 15, 2020

Latent AI makes edge AI workloads more efficient

September 15, 2020

Facebook launches a climate change information center and commits to eliminating ‘scope 3’ emissions by 2030

September 15, 2020

Data virtualization service Varada raises $12M

September 15, 2020

Verkada adds environmental sensors to cloud-based building operations toolkit

September 15, 2020

Facebook announces $4.3 million grant for small businesses in India, introduces support for gift cards

September 14, 2020

Airtable’s Howie Liu has no interest in exiting, even as the company’s valuation soars

September 14, 2020

Leaked memo excoriates Facebook’s ‘slapdash and haphazard’ response to global political manipulation

September 14, 2020

Quantum startup CEO suggests we are only five years away from a quantum desktop computer

September 14, 2020

YouTube launches its TikTok rival, YouTube Shorts, initially in India

September 14, 2020

TikTok hits 100M users in Europe as the clock ticks on its US business

September 14, 2020

Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features

September 14, 2020

Facebook introduces a co-viewing experience in Messenger, ‘Watch Together’

September 14, 2020

YouTube hit with UK class action style suit seeking $3BN+ for ‘unlawful’ use of kids’ data

September 11, 2020

China may kill TikTok’s US operations rather than see them sold

September 11, 2020

As COVID-19 era drags on, VCs look beyond Zoom calls for due diligence and sourcing

September 11, 2020

Facebook launches poll worker recruitment push in the News Feed

September 11, 2020

Facebook seeks fresh legal delay to block order to suspend its transatlantic data transfers

September 11, 2020

TikTok fixes Android bugs that could have led to account hijacks

September 10, 2020

Daily Crunch: Facebook launches a college-only network

September 10, 2020

Twitter’s rules address worries over ‘peaceful transfer of power’ in US election

September 10, 2020

Facebook returns to its roots with Campus, a college student-only social network

September 10, 2020

StackRox nabs $26.5M for a platform that secures containers in Kubernetes

September 09, 2020

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September 09, 2020

B2B marketing company Metadata.io raises $6.5M

September 09, 2020

In a startup reprise, Courtne Smith launches NewNew, a social network based on shared content

September 09, 2020

Snapchat’s new Lens celebrates tomorrow’s NFL kickoff

September 09, 2020

Xometry raises $75M Series E to expand custom manufacturing marketplace

September 09, 2020

Socialbakers acquired by customer engagement company Astute

September 09, 2020

Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise

September 09, 2020

Sprinklr raises $200M on $2.7B valuation three years after last investment

September 08, 2020

Twitter begins adding headlines and descriptions to some of its ‘trends’

September 08, 2020