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It’s been quite a day in the tech world, with a bushel of S-1s being filed to go public. Not to be left out, the ever acquisitive Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire The Crypsis Group, an incident response, risk management and digital forensics consulting firm, for a Read more…

Startup incubator and investment group Y Combinator today held the first of two demo days for founders in its Summer 2020 batch. So far, this cohort contains the usual mix of bold, impressive and, at times, slightly wacky ideas young companies so often show off. This was Y Combinator’s second Read more…

TikTok fights its U.S. ban, Twitter takes action against another Trump tweet and Unity files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch for August 24, 2020. The big story: TikTok sues the U.S. government TikTok is fighting back against the Trump administration’s decision to ban the popular video app Read more…

Today is the day for huge VC returns. We talked a bit about Sequoia’s coming huge win with the IPO of game engine Unity this morning. Now, Sequoia might actually have the second largest return among companies filing to go public with the SEC today. Sequoia strikes gold with Unity’s Read more…

An aviation expert Dr Yakubu Akparibo has outlined a plethora of reasons why the construction of an airport in Cape Coast will not be a viable option for the country as of now. According to the Aerospace Medicine Physician, most of the conditions that would serve as a basis for Read more…

Celebrated musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley says the young musicians have lost their identity and originality as Ghanaians. Speaking in an interview with Daniel Dadzie on Prime Morning on Joy Prime TV Monday, he said that the loss of identity can be attributed to some of the genres of music artiste are Read more…

Snowflake filed to go public today joining a bushel of companies making their S-1 documents public today. TechCrunch has a longer digest of all the IPO filings coming soon, but we could not wait to get into the Snowflake numbers, given the huge anticipation that the company has generated in Read more…

Unity, the company founded in a Copenhagen apartment in 2004, is poised for an initial public offering with numbers that look pretty strong. Even as its main competitor, Epic Games, is in the throes of a very public fight with Apple over the fees the computer giant charges developers who Read more…

President Donald Trump ordered Americans to stop doing business with the popular Chinese video app. Source: BBC

The social networking giant has also agreed to pay France 50% more tax for 2020. Source: BBC

Technologies that remove CO2 from air could drive up food prices five-fold in parts of the world Source: BBC

Zoom says it’s having an outage. Perfect timing to help you avoid your Monday morning meeting. The video calling giant said it’s “received reports of users being unable to visit the Zoom website (zoom.us) and unable to start and join Zoom Meetings and Webinars.” “We are currently investigating and will Read more…

Men, believed to be romance scammers, are approaching women via the chat function of the game. Source: BBC

In 2010, TV show host Conan O’Brien was abruptly asked to give up the time slot he’d been handed just six months earlier by his longtime employer NBC. Instead, he famously gave the network the figurative finger, taking his act to the basic cable network TBS later that same year Read more…

SugarCRM announced this morning it has acquired customer intelligence startup, Node. The companies did not reveal the purchase price, but the deal has closed. While Sugar gains a ton of AI expertise, it also adds a customer prediction element to the platform such as figuring out the customers most likely Read more…

The chief executive of the Bletchley Park Trust says it is struggling to survive. Source: BBC

The platform flagged the president’s tweet and said it could “dissuade voters”. Source: BBC

Dynamite is the first video in YouTube history to gain over 100 million views in a 24-hour period. Source: BBC