As venues reopen, Mixhalo announces new tech for in-person live event streaming

As venues reopen across the U.S., Mixhalo has announced a pair of additions to its in-person audio live event audio streaming platform: Mixhalo Over Cellular and Mixhalo Rodeo. The first is, more or less, what it sounds like. Rather than relying on Wi-Fi, the leverages 5G. The company says it will … Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Remove that ‘exit strategy’ slide from your pitch deck

A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn&#039;t be there: the exit strategy slide. As an early-stage startup, it&#039;s downright nonsensical, and it shouldn&#039;t be part of your deck at all. Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

WeWork India exposed visitors’ personal information and selfies

Visitor names, email addresses, phone numbers, and selfies were exposed to the internet. Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Twitch suspends two popular female creators over sexy ASMR streams

Popular Twitch streamers Amouranth and Indiefoxx are the two latest casualties of Twitch&#8217;s ongoing battle to enforce its own confusing rules around sexually suggestive content. Both creators were suspended following ASMR streams that pushed the bounds of Twitch&#8217;s community guidelines fo… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Clubhouse is building a DM text chat feature

Some Clubhouse users were treated to a surprise feature in their favorite app, but it wasn&#8217;t long for this world. A new UI element called &#8220;backchannel&#8221; popped up briefly before disappearing late last week, pointing the Clubhouse faithful to a new area of the app and generating ple… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

EU is now investigating Google’s adtech over antitrust concerns

EU antitrust authorities are finally taking a broad and deep look into Google&#8217;s adtech stack and role in the online ad market &#8212; confirming today that they&#8217;ve opened a formal investigation. Google has already been subject to three major EU antitrust enforcements over the past five … Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Mobile commerce startup Via rounds up $15 million in Series A funding

Mobile commerce is where it&#8217;s at, and rising investment in so-called conversational commerce startups underscores the opportunity. Via, a two-year-old, Bay Area-based startup, is among those riding the wave, having identified some trends that are becoming clearer by the month. First, more e-c… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Viva Republica, developer of Korean financial super app Toss, raises $410M at a $7.4B valuation

Viva Republica, the Seoul-based fintech company behind Toss, a super app with more than 40 financial services, announced today it has raised $410 million at a post-money valuation of $7.4 billion. The new funding was led by Alkeon Capital, an American investment firm, and included participation fro… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

ResQ raises $7.5 million to make back of the house top of mind

Entrepreneur Kuljeev Singh has had a three-course meal in the restaurant business. He was an angel investor in ChefHero, a part-time owner in an Australian-style meat pie shop and, now, is the founder of ResQ, a startup that helps restaurants repair and service their equipment through contractor wo… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Australian fintech Zeller lands $50M AUD led by Spark Capital at a $400M AUD valuation

Zeller, a Melbourne-based fintech founded by former Square executives to serve small- to mid-sized businesses, has raised $50 million AUD (about $37.5 million USD) led by Spark Capital, the investment firm whose portfolio also includes Twitter, Slack and Coinbase. Zeller&#8217;s valuation is now $4… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Last call for our Pittsburgh City Spotlight Pitch-Off

We’re about a week away from TechCrunch Spotlight: Pittsburgh, and one of the uniquely-TechCrunch things we do at events is a pitch-off. Be it the big Disrupt Battlefield, or the flash pitch-offs that happen weekly on Extra Crunch Live, the energy around folks pitching their company &#8212; sometim… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News