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What’s all this about Europe wanting crypto backdoors? A press report emerged over the weekend claiming European lawmakers who are worried about terrorism are speeding towards a ban on end-to-end encryption. Spoiler: It’s a little more nuanced than that. Read on for our break down of what’s actually going on…  Is Europe about to ban […]

Apple places supplier Pegatron on probation over labor conditions Apple has suspended new business with supplier Pegatron after the Taiwan-based original equipment manufacturer misclassified student workers. Apple also said Pegatron broke its Code of Conduct for suppliers. In a statement provided to Bloomberg, Apple said, “Pegatron misclassified the student workers in their program and falsified […]

Singapore-based sales productivity platform Nektar raises $2.15 million seed round Nektar co-founders Abhijeet Vijayvergiya and Aravind Ravi Sulekha Singapore-based Nektar.ai, a productivity platform for sales teams, has raised $2.15 million in seed funding. Founded earlier this year, Nektar has been working in stealth mode with five companies, and has plans for an early adopter release […]

Tim Berners Lee’s startup Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform for enterprises Inrupt, the startup from World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, announced an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform today, which allows large organizations and governments to build applications that put users in control of their data. Berners-Lee has always believed that the web […]

Original Content podcast: ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is the historical chess drama we need right now On paper, “The Queen’s Gambit” might not sound like a compelling drama: Based on a novel by Walter Tevis, the Netflix series tells the story of Beth Harmon as she rises through the world of competitive chess, eventually taking on […]

5 Important Things That Everyone Should Know About Personal Finance By Rachael Everly We all know that old saying: “Being poor is having too much month at the end of your money.” How is it that some people always have the money to meet their financial obligations (and then some!), while some of us are […]

Principle is inconvenient A principle is an approach you stick with even if you know it might lead to a short-term outcome you don’t prefer. Especially then. It’s this gap between the short-term and the long-term that makes a principle valuable. If your guiding principle is to do whatever benefits you right now, you don’t […]

How Small Retailers Can Attract Holiday Shoppers This promises to be a very unusual holiday shopping season for small retailers this year. We can’t look to past consumer behaviors since the coronavirus has impacted how, when, and where people shop. According to a report in Think With Google, 83% of shoppers say the pandemic altered […]

What we’ve learned about working from home 7 months into the pandemic When large parts of the world were shutting down in March, we really didn’t know how we would move massive numbers of employees used to working in the office to work from home. In early March, I wrote a piece on how to […]

Election Results: Joe Biden Is the Next President of the United States The Democratic candidate reached the 270 electoral votes needed to become the 46th President of the United States. November 7, 2020 1 min read This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. Media […]

Kamala Harris makes history as America's first vice president Harris is the first woman, the first black person, the first Native American and the first Asian American to be elected to the position. November 7, 2020 2 min read This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to […]

Could Your Company Be More Customer-Centric? Providing great customer service isn’t good enough anymore. Successful brands need to be fanatical about understanding their consumers and solving their trickiest problems. November 7, 2020 3 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you are a business owner or business leader, please do not […]

Human Capital: The gig economy in a post-Prop 22 world Welcome back to Human Capital and congrats on making it through one of the hardest weeks of the longest year. Now that the Associated Press has called the election in favor of Joe Biden, it should be good news for DEI practitioners, who expressed some […]

Here comes the next IPO wave This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. Are you tired? I am. What a week. But, if you kept your eyes off American politics and instead focused on the stock […]

The gig economy, cannabis and car data are tech-election winners in 2020 Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. The US is settling in for some new form of national gridlock, but state and local propositions are busy defining […]

And a pony at your birthday party Do you remember your first birthday party? That’s pretty unlikely, even if you have pictures to remind you. So what’s all the hoopla for? Why the cake and the pony and the rest? It’s pretty clear that it wasn’t for you. It was for your parents and their […]

Joe Biden wins the 2020 US presidential election Following a tense week of vote tallying, Joe Biden won the state of Pennsylvania and vaulted ahead in the race to become the next president of the United States. Biden’s win in the critical state put him over the threshold of 270 electoral votes, cutting off all […]

This Week in Apps: Elections’ impact on the app store, new app privacy requirements, iOS 14.2 arrives Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads […]

Score an Incredible Deal on Bizplan, the Top Business Planning Software Reviewers love this essential business tool. November 7, 2020 2 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the […]

Daily Crunch: Netflix tests a linear video channel Netflix takes an old-fashioned approach for its latest feature, Amazon plans a new data center in India and we review the PlayStation 5. This is your Daily Crunch for November 6, 2020. The big story: Netflix tests a linear video channel Today in surprising product strategies: Netflix […]