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Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading.  Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. The startup world could be in for a busy summer. Today …

Express News Service In mid-March, the news that ‘not linking PAN and Aadhaar by March 31, 2021, will attract a fine of Rs 10,000’ and ‘the ship that got stuck in Suez Canal blew the soundtrack of Dhoom’ went viral. However, while we shared it on WhatsApp, Telegram, and social …

Enlarge / We’re still a long way away from a smooth, quick boot with a fancy Asahi logo centered on the screen and (presumably) a soothing startup noise. Asahi Linux—founded by Hector “marcan” Martin—has merged initial support for Apple M1 hardware into the Linux system-on-chip (SOC) tree, where it will …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Alyce, which uses AI to analyze users’ relationships with their colleagues and provide gift recommendations, raises $30M Series B led by General Catalyst  —  Swag has a long and patchy history in the world of business.  For every hip pair of plaid socks, there are five …

Apple has agreed to pay Chilean consumers $3.4 million (roughly Rs. 25 crores) in a lawsuit over programmed obsolescence of iPhone handsets, their lawyer said, the first such settlement in Latin America. Apple is accused of having programmed a limited lifespan into some products to force users to replace their …

The pandemic-induced lockdown forced most people in the country to take to the Internet for their everyday needs. Online gaming platforms were among the beneficiaries from this trend and this is reflected in the investments that the segment attracted last year. According to data from Tracxn, a firm that tracks …

LG smartphone users will no longer get to lay their hands on new phones as the South Korean company announced shutting down its loss-making mobile communications unit. In a statement, the company announced shutting production and sales of mobile phone products on July 31 due to intensified competition and mounting …

For most users, a reliable home broadband line rated at 100Mbps speeds, should be more than sufficient for working from home, for your child’s online classes, video calls through the day and for video streaming once you’re done with work and would like to unwind. For instance, this probably will …

So what can Pinterest do to jump higher up the list of social networking sites? According to a report by the New York Times, one possibility is acquiring the owner of VSCO, the app for editing / sharing photos and videos that has brought in-depth tools to mobile users for …

Kevin Xu is an early-stage investor and founder of Interconnected, a bilingual newsletter covering tech, business and U.S.-Asia relations. Mexico has been known as an up-and-coming tech hub and a gateway to the Latin American market. As an investor focused on developer-centered products, open-source startups and infrastructure technology companies with …