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Daily Crunch: App Store reviews and social media depict user backlash against Snapchat’s new AI chatbot

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Now it has its sights set on helping “everyday Americans” find deals and savings across multiple categories , including travel and shopping, via its super app, Christine reports. Sarah reports that Apple wins its antitrust court battle with Epic Games that involved App Store policies.

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10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021

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I think there will be pushes on antitrust behavior, and social networks will have to behave like media — meaning that they also need to take responsibility for the content that’s on their platform, not only from a user agreement standpoint like today but from an editorial standpoint. This pattern will emerge in other categories.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: No-code investor survey, Zendesk’s next steps, Series A tips

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When we published our last low-code/no-code investor survey in August 2020, the former president had decided to ban TikTok, Epic was filing antitrust cases against Apple and Google, and movie theaters around the U.S. were shuttering to slow the spread of the then-novel coronavirus. Seems like a long time ago.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

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The questions that arise most with respect to any category of IP at the earliest stages include: How will this affect our chances of getting funded on favorable terms ? To what extent might proprietary IP rights be undermined by antitrust laws ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ?

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Daily Crunch: Starting today, Twitter says all advertisers must obtain verified accounts

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Strike that : Sarah reports that in an effort to find a faster resolution to its antitrust legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games, Match Group and state attorneys general, Google is asking the court to dismiss multiple claims , five to be exact, that “would seemingly be pivotal to the plaintiffs’ ability to prove anticompetitive behavior.”

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Founded by Google’s former head of ads, Neeva brings its ad-free search engine to Europe

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Europe is perhaps an obvious first step for Neeva’s inaugural expansion plans, owing to the slew of antitrust complaints currently faced by the mighty incumbent Google, with legislators targeting everything from e-commerce (Google Shopping) and Android to its dominance of the online ad market. France and Germany.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Antitrust jitters, SPAC odyssey, white-hot IPOs, more

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In an analysis for Extra Crunch, Managing Editor Danny Crichton suggested that federal regulators’ new interest in antitrust enforcement will affect valuations going forward. antitrust authorities want broad competition for consumers in household goods,” Danny concluded, and I suspect that applies to Plaid as well.

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