A seat on a spaceship ride with billionaire Jeff Bezos went for $28 million during a live auction on Saturday, concluding the month-long bidding process for the sightseeing trip on the Blue Origin’s maiden voyage next month.

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The announcement of new iPad software at this year’s WWDC conference had an abnormally large expectation hung on it.  The iPad lineup, especially the larger iPad Pro, has kept up an impressively frantic pace of hardware innovation over the past few years.  In that same time frame, the software of the iPad, especially its ability to allow users to use multiple apps at once and in its onramps for professional software makers, has come under scruti…

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Apple’s iPadOS 15 breaks the app barrier

At Apple's WWDC on Monday, we finally got a look at iOS 15. Here's what to expect from Apple's latest iPhone operating system.

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iOS 15: Release date, new features and everything Apple told us at WWDC

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 a…

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In a world of talking points and corporate jargon, opinions are refreshing — and Expensify CEO and founder David Barrett is full of them.  Barrett’s ethos has, as reporter Anna Heim puts, led to Expensify having “its own take on almost everything” from hiring without job titles and resumes, to going distributed before it was cool, to having an almost non-existent sales team.

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Byju's becomes India's most valued startup after $350 million funding

When I joined the team at SOSV’s HAX, a venture program designed to help early-stage hardware founders, my friends in tech shook their heads.  What they didn’t see was a hardware scene evolving rapidly in contrast to its glacial reputation.  The old hard-knocks hardware playbook has given way to a new, vastly more exciting one; emerging to meet civilization-level opportunities, like climate, that software can resolve alone.

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The Exchange dug into the mostly bullish IPO market earlier this week, noting that Monday.com and Marqeta put up some pretty big points over the last few days.  For fintech companies, the company’s successful pricing and strong share-price performance is a welcome result.  To get a handle on just that, The Exchange chatted with the company’s founder and CEO Jason Gardner after his company priced its IPO and started to trade.

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