WhatsApp’s chief business officer is leaving

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WhatsApp’s chief business officer is leavingRoughly one year after WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton made his highly-publicized exit from Facebook, another executive and early employee of the messaging platform is doing the same. Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp’s chief business officer, announced today that he would be “taking some time off to recharge and spend time with family.” Facebook […]

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Enterprise messaging startup Eko Communications raises $20M for its European expansion

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Enterprise messaging startup Eko Communications raises $20M for its European expansionAfter focusing on Asian markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, Bangkok-based Eko Communications is getting ready to take on Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other enterprise messaging apps in Europe. The startup announced today that it has raised a Series B of $20 million and opened offices […]

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Facebook denies report that election war room was disbanded

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Facebook denies report that election war room was disbandedFacebook’s election war room monitors and dashboards remain, since so does the threat of election interference. Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that its election war room that it paraded reporters through in October has not been disbanded and will be used again for future elections. That directly […]

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Apple launches app development program for female entrepreneurs

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Apple launches app development program for female entrepreneursApple is looking to better support female-identifying founders through its new Entrepreneur Camp, a technology lab focused on app development. The free two-week camp, which kicks off in January, will give female founders the opportunity to receive one-on-one coding assistance from Apple engineers, as well as attend sessions […]

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That night, a forest flew: DroneSeed is planting trees from the air

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That night, a forest flew: DroneSeed is planting trees from the airWildfires are consuming our forests and grasslands faster than we can replace them. It’s a vicious cycle of destruction and inadequate restoration rooted, so to speak, in decades of neglect of the institutions and technologies needed to keep these environments healthy. DroneSeed is a […]

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CRISPR scientist in China claims his team’s research has resulted in the world’s first gene-edited babies

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CRISPR scientist in China claims his team’s research has resulted in the world’s first gene-edited babiesIn what represents a dramatic and ethically fraught escalation of CRISPR research, a Chinese scientist from a university in Shenzhen claims he has succeeded in helping create the world’s first genetically-edited babies. Dr. Jiankui He told the Associated Press that […]

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