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Note-taking app Mem raises $5.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz – TechCrunch

The competition for note-taking is as fierce as it has ever been with plenty of highly-valued productivity startups fighting for an audience it can potentially serve endless productivity offshoots. In the past year, Notion raised at a $2 billion valuation, Coda raised at $636 million, and Roam rais…
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Bank of America is bringing VR instruction to its banks – TechCrunch

As consumer VR begins to have a moment following years of heavy investment from Facebook and other tech giants, corporate America is similarly beginning to find more utility in the technology, as well. Bank of America announced today that they’ll be working with Bay Area-based VR startup Stri…
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E-commerce infrastructure startup Nacelle closes $18M Series A – Te...

Consumer online shopping habits have led to a windfall of revenues for these web storefronts, but COVID-era trends have also breathed new life into the market for developer tools that help e-commerce sites operate more smoothly for shoppers. LA-based Nacelle is one of many e-commerce infrastructure…
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Extra Crunch roundup: 2 VC surveys, Tesla’s melt up, The Roblox Gam...

Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch this week. I hope we can all look forward to a nice, boring weekend with no breaking news alerts.
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8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities – TechCrunch

“The next social network needs to be a place to hang also when you don’t come for a game session.”
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This browser extension unhides Instagram Likes – TechCrunch

Instagram is hiding Like counts to make people feel better. But what if you’re curious, competitive or just petty? Now you can re-embrace the popularity contest by installing the Socialinsider Chrome extension that reveals Instagram Like and comment counts. “The Return of the Likes̶…
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Google is shutting down its in-house VR film studio – TechCrunch

Google is shutting down its Emmy Award-winning VR film division, Spotlight Stories, after six years of building out content, Variety reports. We’ve reached out to Google for confirmation. Update: A Google spokesperson responded to TechCrunch with a statement confirming the shutdown. “Since it…

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Social virtual reality startup AltspaceVR may not be dead after all...

What is dead in VR may never die, perhaps? Social VR startup AltspaceVR may not be shutting down after all. The company, which raised more than $15 million in funding from GV, Comcast Ventures and others, announced last month that it was unexpectedly closing its virtual doors after a funding deal f…
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Baidu opens augmented reality lab, begins integrating AR into searc...

Chinese search giant Baidu is looking to further entrench itself in the world of augmented reality, announcing today that it is establishing an AR lab to research and build experiences that more tightly integrate the digital experiences we have on our devices with the world around us. The instituti…
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Virtual reality will revolutionize media content but VR headsets ne...

Virtual reality can deliver on its promise to bring new and immersive experiences to the masses, but the current iteration of hardware will need to evolve first.
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Google Says It Will Not De-List Entire Sites For Copyright Violatio...

In an open letter to the Office and Management and Budget’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Google announced today that it opposes the practice of removing entire sites from search results. Google’s letter is in response to a public solicitation by Daniel H. Marti, the United States …