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Elon guts Twitter, Google shutters Hangouts, and the tech layoffs continue

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Hey, all — welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we sum up the most read TechCrunch stories from the past week. Layoffs everywhere : Meanwhile, news of tech industry layoffs continues to pour in. And oof, what a week it was. Want this newsletter in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Let’s just dive right in.

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Butlr Technologies, developing anonymous people sensors, inks $7.9M seed round

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million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies ’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for active seniors who are aging in place. We can bring dignity back to the technology world, while also understanding users’ needs.

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Okendo wants to turn your shoppers into buyers through better customer reviews

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No merchant likes a bad customer review and Okendo , a customer marketing platform, announced $26 million in Series A funding today to continue developing its customer review tools for e-commerce brands. Base10 Partners led the funding round and was joined by Craft Ventures and existing investor Index Ventures.

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How African startups raised investments in 2020

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To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? billion in 2019. billion and $1.8 billion and $1.8

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Flippa raises $11M to match online asset and business buyers, sellers

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founders Gabby and Hezi Leibovich; RetailMeNot.com founders Guy King and Bevan Clarke; and Reactive Media founders Tim O’Neill and Tim Fouhy. The company also offers due diligence and acquisition financing from Thrasio-owned Yardline Capital and a new service called Flippa Legal. in 2020, up from 15.8%

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8 founders, leaders highlight fintech and deep tech as Bristol’s top sectors

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is gaining in popularity as a great place to start a tech firm. The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. city for tech investment. outside London, according to Whitecap’s 2019-2020 Ecosystem Report.

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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

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Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. The app doesn’t run ads.