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The Xbox company has declared support for the Fortnite-maker as it battles Apple’s “monopoly”. Source: BBC

Still working to turn a profit and shake off its fake-goods reputation, China’s e-commerce upstart Pinduoduo set itself another ambitious goal for 2025: surpass 1 trillion yuan or $145 billion annual gross merchandise volume of agricultural products. The announcement arrived with the company’s Q2 results last Friday. For some context, Read more…

Twitter flagged one of President Donald Trump’s tweets on Monday, placing it behind a notice that warns users it violates the platform’s rules against dissuading people from voting. In the tweet, posted on Monday, Trump claimed mail drop boxes are a “voter security disaster” and also said they are “not Read more…

Shahrzad Rafati is the boss of internet video technology firm BroadbandTV. Source: BBC

Jimmy Qian and Lucia Huang, the co-founders of a new clinical practice management and data analysis platform for mental health providers focusing on cutting edge psychedelic treatments, met at Stanford University.  The two both come from healthcare backgrounds. Huang, whose mother was a biomedical engineer, worked as an associate at Read more…

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

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. You can subscribe to the newsletter here if you haven’t yet. Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. Palantir and Read more…

Bletchley Park is an English country house that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. It built the world’s first programmable digital electronic computer, cracking the Enigma Machine and thus helping turn the tide of the war against Nazi Germany. But now the institution that Read more…

Edtech’s reputation has been revitalized due to the coronavirus pandemic, which forced millions of students to adopt remote education overnight. But behind the scramble is a crop of investors who have long invested in the space — before it became cool. To better understand what’s ahead, what’s hot, and what’s Read more…

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series* that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. Read more…

Mikaela Kiner Contributor Share on Twitter Mikaela Kiner is an executive coach and author of “Female Firebrands: Stories and Techniques to Ignite Change, Take Control, and Succeed in the Workplace.” A few years ago, I came to the realization that my company, an HR consulting firm, was not as diverse Read more…

“Selling Sunset” is the kind reality TV show that doesn’t bother with things like sympathetic or relatable characters. The Netflix series recently released its third season — which, like the seasons before it, follows the efforts of the largely female staff at a Los Angeles brokerage to sell high-end real Read more…

Few topics garner cheers and groans quite as quickly as the no-code software explosion. While investors seem uniformly bullish on toolsets that streamline and automate processes that once required a decent amount of technical know-how, not everyone seems to think that the product class is much of a new phenomenon. Read more…

Feeling like you should better understand special purpose acquisition vehicles – or SPACs — than you do? You aren’t alone. It isn’t like you’re totally clueless, right? You’re probably aware that Paul Ryan now has a SPAC, as does baseball executive Billy Beane and Silicon Valley stalwart Kevin Hartz. You Read more…

Ghana has witnessed the conduct of Presidential Debates prior to Presidential Elections since 2000. Yet, serious debates arise about debates, in the lead up to elections, where a sitting President is also a flagbearer of a political party. It is to be admitted that, regardless of how a student gets Read more…

Ghana’s downstream petroleum player, GOIL, is awaiting results of data collected by its partner ExxonMobil for the exploration of crude oil in the Deepwater Offshore Cape Three Points. To this end, the company has also invested in the recruitment of local engineers and geologists to help in the production process. Read more…