Facebook finally made a good virtual reality app
Facebook’s journey toward making virtual reality a thing has been long and circuitous, but despite mixed success in finding a …
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Contact, a platform for creatives backed by Maisie Williams, raises $1.9M Seed led by Founders Fund
With the pandemic digitizing every aspect of our lives, the Creator Economy has taken off like never before, with some …
Privacy-oriented search app Xayn raises $12M from Japanese backers to go into devices
Back in December 2020 we covered the launch of a new kind of smartphone app-based search engine, Xayn. “A search …
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This Week in Apps: In-app events hit the App Store, TikTok tries Stories, Apple reveals new child safety plan
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the …
YELA secures $2M to reproduce Cameo’s celebrity success with an app for the Middle East
The Cameo app, where celebrities send video messages to paying fans, has taken off globally. But now the concept is …
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The RapidSOS EC-1
Three digits, so little time. Numbers can take on profound cultural significance, but few numbers have quite the resonance as …
China Roundup: Kai-Fu Lee’s first Europe bet, WeRide buys a truck startup
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they …
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This Week in Apps: Android ad prices jump, TikTok resumes, Google Play’s antitrust lawsuit
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the …
BMW is finally producing its retro-futuristic CE 04 electric scooter, but at $12K will anyone buy it?
We’ve been hearing about BMW’s electric city scooters, not to be confused with electric kick scooters, for years. The German …
Raylo nabs $11.5M to get more mobile users to lease and reuse
UK-based smartphone subscription startup Raylo has tucked $11.5 million in Series A funding into its top pocket, led by Octopus …
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