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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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We have the latest from how the technology world is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a review of the Theranos show, notes from New Zealand venture capital and more. Soon every company will also be a VC : The boom in venture capital activity that the world saw in 2021 did not fail to impact large companies. And that’s fair.

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Daily Crunch: Blocking VLC player downloads violates Indian law, claims VideoLAN in legal challenge

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Solve for X, where : Tage reports that Egyptian venture capital firm Algebra Ventures hits its first close of a second, $100 million fund. Daily Crunch: Blocking VLC player downloads violates Indian law, claims VideoLAN in legal challenge by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch. billion , Kyle writes.

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The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app

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With early venture capital in its pocket, Duolingo could afford to focus on product over profits. It’s an attractive route because it vastly lowers the cost of acquiring users while also increasing engagement and thus retention.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. VC is still a thing :) If you want to see the full deck you can download it on Slideshare or in the embed below.

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When the Good Guys in Venture Change Roles

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This morning it was announced that Matt Murphy had left his role as a partner Kleiner Perkins to join as a partner in Menlo Ventures. Gogii [the original company name] was an early leader in the free text messaging space and we had tens of millions of downloads of our product. He’s with you in good times & bad.

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Cooky raises $4.5m led by Nextrans and Do Ventures

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In a statement, Cooky said the fresh funds came from Korea-based investment firm Nextrans and local venture capital firm Do Ventures. “We Since its introduction in the market barely two years ago, the Cooky app now has over 1 million downloads. The post Cooky raises $4.5m

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EWA, which taps into popular media to teach languages, hits 51M downloads and 3.5M MAUs and raises its first outside funding

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In one of the more recent developments, a language learning app called EWA — which has built a media-based approach to language acquisition, with excerpts from films and TV, and books, to familiarize learners with vocabulary and speaking — has passed 51 million downloads and picked up 3.5 million in its first outside funding.

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