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2020 is a nightmare year for most metrics, and it’s also a worst-case scenario that emerges from a best-case scenario for Joe Biden . After falling behind in the early primary states, Biden fell back on a breathtaking wave of Super Tuesday support. Now, as a suspected democratic candidate in the midst of a global health crisis that has immobilized …

Anthony Zhang Contributor Anthony is a co-founder and CEO of Vinovest, a platform for investing in fine wine. He previously founded and sold two companies (EnvoyNow & Know Your VC) and is also a Thiel Fellow. How we invest changes. Technology makes investing easier and more accessible than ever. Meanwhile, Millennials and Gen Z are withdrawing public stakes. These changes …

There has been constant news on the US-China trade front since the Trump administration began. President Trump has repeatedly disconnected from China’s economy. There was the trade conflict with weekly changes in US tariff policy, threats to ZTE and Huawei, China’s response to Qualcomm and NXP, and the introduction of new restrictions on Chinese investment in US startups and telecommunications …

Q2 2020 is the least secure quarter I’ve ever covered Hello and welcome Back to our regular morning view of private companies, public markets and the gray areas in between. After perhaps spending more time than we should have recently tried to figure out what’s going on with the public markets, we return to the private markets this morning and …

With the end of the winning season, we get a solid picture of how profoundly the COVID-19 pandemic has affected corporate earnings. Taiwan-based manufacturing giant Foxconn is one of the companies that was completely overwhelmed in the past quarter. Downtimes – particularly in China – led to a 90% drop in profit compared to the previous year. Foxconn had already …

Chris and Alex Naoumidis came to hypnotherapy through clothes. How The New York Times Last year, the two brothers reported that they started their careers as start-ups with a peer-to-peer app for sharing clothes for women. The Australian Aborigines, overwhelmed by doubts about their ability to succeed in the startup country, and when apps didn’t work, her father suggested trying …

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capitalized podcast, in which we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Are you a regular equity listener? Take our survey here! We’ll talk about it on the show and it’s embedded below if you don’t want to click a link. This week from home again, Danny, Natasha, Alex, and Chris came together …

New figures from NPD confirm what we have known for some time: The first quarter of 2020 was very good for gaming companies. The new report finds that sales in the US reached a record $ 10.86 billion between January and March this year, an increase of 9% year over year. Of that, $ 9.58 billion came from video game …

Zynga has spiced up the look and gameplay of Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, a new Match 3 mobile game developed in collaboration with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The company released its first video (embedded in this story) of the game today. Bernard Kim, President of Publishing at Zynga, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the game in countries …

Clear Labs, a biotech company that provides automated security technologies to food manufacturers, raised $ 18 million from a number of high-profile investors in a round of financing, including Alphabet’s GV, private equity firm Redmile Group, Menlo Ventures and Khosla Ventures . The company, based in Menlo Park, California, announced that it would not only use this cash injection to …