Unicorns are ready for a haircut: Natasha Mascarenhas
The digitization of your haircut may not have been on your 2020 bucket list, but 2021 has an even more surprising line item: Tech-powered barbershops are now a business proposition valued at nearly a billion dollars. Squire is a back-end barbershop management…
The pandemic effect is slowing: Alex Wilhelm
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5 lessons from Duolingo's bellwether edtech IPO of the year: Natasha Mascarenhas, Alex Wilhelm
Duolingo landed onto the public markets this week, rallying excitement and attention for the edtech sector and its founder cohort. The language learning business’ stock price soared when it began to trade, even after the unicorn raised its IPO price range, an…
China roundup: Keep down internet upstarts, cultivate hard tech: Rita Liao
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The tech industry in China has had quite a turbulent week. The government is upending its…
This Week in Apps: Instagram restricts teens' accounts, Elon Musk criticizes App Store fees, Google Play's new policies: Sarah Perez
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consu…
Bring your own environment: The future of work: Michael Biltz
A few years from now, the organizations that succeed will be the ones that resisted the urge to race everyone back to the office and instead rethought how their workforce operates.
TuSimple's self-driving truck network takes shape with Ryder partnership: Kirsten Korosec
TuSimple, the self-driving truck company that went public earlier this year, has partnered with Ryder as part of its plan to build out a freight network that will support its autonomous trucking operations. Under the deal announced this week, Ryder’s fleet ma…
Pittsburgh Google contractors ratify deal with HCL: Brian Heater
Nearly two years ago, contractors for Google’s Pittsburgh operations voted to join the United Steelworkers union in a bid to secure more labor rights representation. It was an early example of a building union movement for tech workers across the spectrum. Bu…
Daily Crunch: European privacy regulators fine Amazon $887M over targeted advertising practices: Alex Wilhelm
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Argo AI can now offer the public rides in its autonomous vehicles in California: Kirsten Korosec
Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle technology startup backed by Ford and VW, has landed a permit in California that will allow the company to give people free rides in its self-driving vehicles on the state’s public roads. The California Public Utilities Commiss…
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