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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

Alex Wilhelm dug into Discord’s possible $10 billion exit to Microsoft and explored IPO price ranges for real estate tech company Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications, a unified-communications-as-a-service company. Automakers, suppliers and startups see growing market for in-vehicle AR/VR applications.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6% The unified communications market’s meager 1.6% in 2023, the firm says.

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Investors double down on tech stocks in massive DoorDash, Airbnb, C3.ai IPOs

TechCrunch

Gorny founded Nextiva in 2008, focused on what it describes today as “UcaaS,” or unified communications as a service. Survey: Americans think Big Tech isn’t so bad after all. China watches and learns from the US in AR/VR competition. Hear the latest from Kayhan Space and Firehawk Aerospace at TC Sessions: Space.

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