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How long can Zuckerberg afford to bankroll the AR/VR market?

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If someone forwarded you this message, you can get this in your inbox from the newsletter page , and follow my tweets @lucasmtny. Apple launches its first local newsletter. This week, the company rolled out a local newsletter in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing bundled local news curated by the Apple team. the big thing.

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Get this newsletter in your inbox every Thursday by subscribing on TechCrunch’s newsletter page. We’ve talked crypto crashes a couple times already in the short life of this newsletter but the sell off this week has spooked crypto insiders in a very different way. “I debt, equity, derivatives) or sectors (e.g.,

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K1 Investment Management Buys Digital Pharmacist

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Los Angeles-based private equity investor K1 Investment Management has acquired Digital Pharmacist , a software development firm which helps pharmacists manage refill reminders and other marketing. The deal was worth $125M. READ MORE>>.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

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Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a newsletter published every Saturday that dives into the week’s most noteworthy venture deals, fundraises, M&A transactions and trends. If you enjoy this newsletter, be sure to check out TechCrunch’s venture-focused podcast, Equity.

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Max Q: SpaceX gets ready for first human flight

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Max Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space. Satellite internet startup Astranis has raised a $90 million Series B funding round, which includes a mix of equity ($40 million) and debt facility ($50 million). Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. space efforts both in science and in defense.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

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Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. billion in a round led by the private equity firm GPI Capital this week. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Before that, I wrote about Stripe’s grand plans.

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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

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Hi, and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages travel from Point A to Point B. I have started to publish a version of the newsletter on TechCrunch. For the whole newsletter, which comes out every weekend, you can subscribe by heading over here , and clicking “The Station.”

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