Salesforce leads $15M investment in Indian HR tech platform Darwinbox – TechCrunch
Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the …
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Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media – TechCrunch
The idea for Capsule started with a tweet about reinventing social media. A day later cryptography researcher, Nadim Kobeissi — …
Bustle CEO Bryan Goldberg explains his plans for taking the company public – TechCrunch
Bustle Digital Group — owner of Bustle, Inverse, Input, Mic and other titles — could eventually join the ranks of …
Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee sent back to prison in bribery case – TechCrunch
Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee is back in prison following a retrial of his 2017 conviction in a …
Virgin Orbit reaches orbit for the first time – TechCrunch
Virgin Orbit launched its LauncherOne rocket to orbit for the first time today, with a successful demonstration mission that carried …
UK’s Bloom & Wild raises $102M to seed its flower delivery service across Europe – TechCrunch
Bloom & Wild, a London-based startup that takes an updated and online approach to the very traditional business of ordering …
GitHub’s head of HR resigns in light of termination of Jewish employee – TechCrunch
A GitHub internal investigation has revealed the company made “significant errors of judgment and procedure” in the firing of the …
Stay gold, ‘Plaid for X’ startups – TechCrunch
A failed acquisition usually triggers the same series of questions: What does this mean for early-stage startups in the sector? …
Labor issues at GitHub, Facebook’s new civil rights exec and a legal battle against Prop 22 – TechCrunch
This week kicked off with a report of a GitHub worker who was fired after cautioning his coworkers in the …
No one knows what anything is worth – TechCrunch
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra …