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Technology is transforming global treaties
Technology is rapidly changing how treaties are monitored and enforced — with profound implications for global governance and international law.
70 Countries Set Their Clocks Back an Hour Tonight. But Why?
Tonight 70 countries around the world set their clocks back an hour — including most of the United States, Canada, the EU and the UK.
Yet “The practice has drawn complaints about its disruptive effects on sleep and schedules,” reports UPI, addi…
With a Section 1045 rollover, founders can salvage QSBS before 5 years
Section 1045 allows a founder or stockholder whose company has been sold before the five-year holding period to defer the capital gain by rolling the sale proceeds into a replacement QSBS.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study
Cargo ships are stacked up outside ports, and empty shipping containers are in short supply, as are the truck drivers who would take them to market. This is not the time for doing business as usual.
This Week in Apps: SharePlay arrives, Android Dev Summit wraps, Snap and TikTok go to Congress
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 consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. […]
Internet shutdowns are a political weapon. It’s time to disarm.
Scott Carpenter Contributor Share on Twitter Scott Carpenter is Jigsaw’s Director of Policy and International Engagement. Prior to Google, Carpenter served as the Keston Family Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and as the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy and Human Rights. Authoritarian governments from twenty-one […]
Fortnite Boss Slams Billionaire Tax He Doesn’t Seem To Fully Understand
Surprise, surprise, Epic Games founder, Tim Sweeney, is not a fan of the new billionaire tax being proposed in Congress at the moment. The CEO of the company, which prints money thanks to Fortnite, said the tax would possibly “end founder control” of E…
Health tech startup mPharma acquires Vine Pharmacy, enters Uganda
mPharma, a Ghanaian health startup, has taken a controlling stake in Uganda’s Vine Pharmacy for an undisclosed amount, marking the firm’s entry into its latest market in Africa. mPharma disclosed to TechCrunch that it has acquired a 55 percent stake previously held by the Abraaj Group, a private equity firm that collapsed after investors, including […]
Lawmakers confront TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube about eating disorder content
Representatives from TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security today to discuss how to protect kids online. This hearing follows Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen‘s document leaks to the Wall Street Journal, which — among many things — exposed Facebook’s knowledge that Instagram is toxic for […]