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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

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Haje reports on the thing, noting that Leica only sells about 100,000 cameras per year. Manish reports that investors have questioned Zomato’s expansion into the space, given its punishingly high costs and low margins. Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports. Perhaps it can be forgiven for charging a premium.

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Daily Crunch: Twitter tells GitHub to remove proprietary source code and help them ID who posted it

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— Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Come together : If you find yourself grumbling about using Microsoft Teams, this story might bring a smile to your face: Frederic reports that Microsoft rebuilt Teams from the ground up, promising some neat things, like 2x faster performance and only half the memory being used. Avoid these 7 mistakes.

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When you gaze into the AI, the AI also gazes into you

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Less confusion, more fusion: Tim is basically single-handedly carrying this entire section this week — well done, squire — reporting how scientists repeat a breakthrough fusion experiment, netting more power than before , bringing us one baby step closer to usable fusion power. Alas, ’twas not to be this time either, but the hunt continues.

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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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Lido wants to help stake Ethereum : I won’t get into the proof of work versus proof of stake argument here, so suffice it to say that more eth needs to get staked for the blockchain to evolve. Per our reporting, Lido “is the market leader for Ethereum liquid staking” and just raised $70 million from a16z.

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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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We have a busy slate for you today, including news sure to annoy the blockchain faithful, new funds, Facebook’s latest rebrand and more. India continues to debate the fate of cryptocurrencies : A nation’s regulatory and banking bodies debating blockchain technology and its related tokens is a daily occurrence. PST, subscribe here.

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The Future of Security

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This report covers four of the most important trends: Zero trust (ZT) security (also known as context-aware security, policy-based enforcement), which is becoming more widespread and dominates many enterprise and vendor conversations. What are some of today’s trends, and what might be future trends in this area? Mobile Device Security.

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