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“Link-in-bio” company Linktree raises $45M Series B for its social commerce features

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million Series A announced in October 2020. Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. The Sydney, Australia-based startup’s last round was a $10.7

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Video: TechCrunch editors share their top stories of 2020

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Disinformation and discord spread like wildfire on social media, but so did important information and documentation of brutality, often via the newly popular medium of live streaming. . Darrell Etherington: SpaceX had a tremendous 2020, realizing a lot of things that they’d been working on for years.

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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Video: TechCrunch editors choose their top stories of 2020

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Disinformation and discord spread like wildfire on social media, but so did important information and documentation of brutality, often via the newly popular medium of live streaming. . Darrell Etherington: SpaceX had a tremendous 2020, realizing a lot of things that they’d been working on for years.

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How to tell when your government shuts down your Internet access

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But one oft-used government tactic in some countries to limit the ability of their citizens to communicate and organize has been absent so far: There have been virtually no reports of state-mandated Internet shutdowns in response to the protest. READ MORE ON GOVERNMENT INTERNET INTERFERENCE.

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Along’s new mobile app lets creators record ‘infinite length’ video collabs

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All major social networks including Instagram , TikTok , and Snapchat have their own take on how collaborations should work. Link tagging is handy for tapes for product reviewers and references to other social profiles of a creator — no need for “link in bio” here. They can add links to a website or tag users in the clip.

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Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy

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Michael Houck , a former product manager at Airbnb and Uber, rented a home in Tulum, Mexico in May 2020. He put $21,000 of non-refundable money on his credit card and invited friends and people he met on the internet before hopping on a plane. — (@rocketshiphouse) October 13, 2020. Product Hunt, and then TikTok.

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