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Daily Crunch: Kanye West reaches agreement to acquire social media platform Parler

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That, that, that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger ” : Two of our top stories for today centered on the same topic — Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, surprising us all by announcing he was going to buy the conservative social media site Parler. The TechCrunch Top 3. Manish has the basics on the deal.

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Daily Crunch: ‘For a limited time,’ Coinbase’s new NFT marketplace will waive transaction fees

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The company aims to make this a “web3 social marketplace.” Meanwhile, in the most life-imitates-art ( looking at you , “Silicon Valley”) story I’ve written for TechCrunch to date, Social Local Mobile Commerce (SoLoMoCo) app Tulu raised a chunk of cash to bring the sharing economy to your apartment building. You want more?

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Daily Crunch: New Starbucks Odyssey loyalty program ‘happens to be built on blockchain and web3’

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Elon Musk, part 265 : Ivan writes that “the third time is the charm” for Elon Musk’s lawyers, who delivered a third termination notice to Twitter regarding the severance payment made to former security head Peiter “Mudge” Zatko in June, arguing that this action was in violation of Musk’s proposed agreement to acquire the social media giant.

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Daily Crunch: Shark Tank India host Ashneer Grover tries to get his BharatPe CEO fired

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Image Credits: DrAfter123 (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Today, those convention centers and hotel ballrooms are dark and quiet. TechCrunch wants you to recommend growth marketers who have expertise in SEO, social, content writing and more! We also talked about cute robots! So, if that applies to you, good news.

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10 Leadership Lessons from 10 Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Terry Starbucker

The theme was the “School of Hard Knocks” – apt because the event was held in Portland’s cool and unique Kennedy School hotel and event center. There was a diverse group of businesses represented, including restaurants, social media platforms,non-profits, clothing, bio-med, farming, software, and bicycles.

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Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

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This can be, for example, submitting a refund claim for hotel costs for a business trip an employee actually turns into leisure (do not mistake it for bleisure ). This is due to airlines, online travel agencies (OTAs) , and hotels having less than 48 hours to check data and detect possible fraud.

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Technology as a Disruptor to Optimize Operations and Explore New Revenue Streams

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

The IATA predicts that there is approximately a $63billion worldwide passenger revenue loss as a result of the current social distancing requirement. Some countries are already under lockdown, which means their window of opportunity has passed. If 550 flights are canceled a day, that is a total of 125,000 daily passengers.