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Gretel announces $12M Series A to make it easier to anonymize data

Computer vision startup Chooch.ai scores $20M Series A

Undock raises $1.6M to help solve your group scheduling nightmares

Harbr raises $38.5M to help enterprises exchange and share big data troves securely

Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

Kyklo raises $8.5M to bring electrical distributors online

Twitter labeled 300,000 US election tweets — around 0.2%

Facebook’s Snapchat-like ‘Vanish Mode’ feature arrives on Messenger and Instagram

Mirantis brings extensions to its Lens Kubernetes IDE, launches a new Kubernetes distro

Livestorm raises $30M for its browser-based meeting and webinar platform

Menlo Security announces $100M Series E on $800M valuation

Facebook loses final appeal in defamation takedown case, must remove same and similar hate posts globally

Databricks launches SQL Analytics

Solo.io announces service mesh platform aimed at enterprise customers

mmhmm videochat software is now available to all for Mac

Instagram redesign puts Reels and Shop tabs on the home screen

Twitter brings its Stories feature, Fleets, to Japan

Facebook extends its temporary ban on political ads for another month

Greylock’s Asheem Chandna on ‘shifting left’ in cybersecurity and the future of enterprise startups

Fishtown Analytics raises $29.5M Series B for its data engineering platform

Boostrapped Clearfind wants to cut your software spend, for a small fee

Palo Alto Networks to acquire Expanse in deal worth $800M

Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box data stack

SentinelOne, an AI-based endpoint security firm, confirms $267M raise on a $3.1B valuation

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna wants to completely transform his organization

With $29M in funding, Isovalent launches its cloud-native networking and security platform

Explo snags $2.3M seed to help build customer-facing BI dashboards

JumpCloud raises $75M Series E as cloud directory service thrives during pandemic

Qualcomm Ventures invests in four 5G startups

Mirror founder Brynn Putnam on life with Lululemon — and whether or not she sold too soon

Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation

Adobe acquires marketing workflow startup Workfront for $1.5B

‘Free speech’ social network Parler tops app store rankings following Biden’s election win

Qumulo update adds NvME caching for more efficient use of flash storage

Cellwize raises $32M to help carriers and their partners adopt and run 5G services

Tim Berners Lee’s startup Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform for enterprises

What we’ve learned about working from home 7 months into the pandemic

Slintel grabs $4.2M seed to grow sales intelligence platform

Steve Bannon’s show pulled off Twitter and YouTube over calls for violence

Facebook takes down ‘Stop the Steal 2020’ group organizing around false claims of election chicanery

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is reportedly looking for $2B before its Hong Kong public offering

Vimeo raises $150M, while IAC is ‘contemplating’ a spin-off

TikTok takes down some hashtags related to election misinformation, leaves others

Facebook blocks hashtags for #sharpiegate, #stopthesteal election conspiracies

Ushur raises $25M for its no-code platform to build customer communication flows

Extra Crunch Live: Join Greylock’s Asheem Chandna today at 3pm EST/12pm PST on the future of enterprise and cybersecurity investing

Alibaba passes IBM in cloud infrastructure market with over $2B in revenue

Ayar raises $35M for optical interconnect tech to overcome computing bottlenecks in the CPU

TikTok tests a Learn tab to showcase education and how-to videos

WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages, which disappear after 7 days

Twitter restricts Trump’s tweet claiming that foes would ‘steal’ the election

Facebook and Instagram notifications warn U.S. users there’s no winner yet in Presidential Election

Intel has acquired Cnvrg.io, a platform to manage, build and automate machine learning

How startups can shake up their first idea and still crush the market

Twitter hides Trump tweet attacking Supreme Court’s decision on Pennsylvania ballots

Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

What social networks have learned since the 2016 election

AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances

Coupa Software snags Llamasoft for $1.5B to bring together spending and supply chain data

Twilio wraps $3.2B purchase of Segment after warp speed courtship

Email creation startup Stensul raises $16M

Leena AI nabs $8M Series as it expands from chatbots to HR service platform

Twitter explains how it will handle misleading tweets about the US election results

Warren gets $1.4 million to help local cloud infrastructure providers compete against Amazon and other giants