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China Roundup: Alibaba’s Hong Kong listing and Tencent’s new fuel
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what…
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Apple’s vaping app ban, Disney+ gets installed, apps gear up for Black Friday
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they…
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Wayfair’s app adds 3D visualization tools, including interactive photos & a room planner
Home furnishing retailer Wayfair was among the first to adopt AR technology as a means of helping people better visual…
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Amazon to open its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in 2020
Amazon is opening its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in the L.A. neighborhood of Woodland Hills, the retailer today confirmed.…
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Nexkey raises $6M Series A round to make your company’s doors smarter
Nexkey, a company that provides a mobile access control solution for commercial buildings and workspaces, today announced that it has…
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Walgreens partners with FedEx to accept online returns, print labels
FedEx and Walgreens are partnering to make online returns more convenient, in a move that’s part of a growing trend…
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PayPal is the first company to drop out of the Facebook-led Libra Association
PayPal has become the first company to walk away officially from Facebook’s Libra, a cryptocurrency and related association that it…
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Zola, the $650M wedding portal, taps the travel market with an expansion into honeymoons
The wedding industry is estimated to be worth some $100 billion in the U.S. alone, and now one of the…
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Alibaba unveils Hanguang 800, an AI inference chip it says significantly increases the speed of machine learning tasks
Alibaba Group introduced its first AI inference chip today, a neural processing unit called Hanguang 800 that it says makes…
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