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Equity Shot: Salesforce’s $27.7 billion-dollar Slack message

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Welcome to an Equity Shot all about the huge, and hugely interesting Salesforce -Slack deal, in which the enterprise soc...

Not Even William Barr Buys Trump’s Election Nonsense

The attorney general has long been one of the president’s chief apologists. Not this time.

Daily Crunch: Salesforce buys Slack for $27.7B

Lightspeed acquires restaurant software company Upserve for $430M

Lightspeed POS just announced the acquisition of Upserve, expanding Lightspeed’s presence in the restaurant industry. The company already offers cloud-based point-of-sale software for restaurants and other businesses. It went public in Canada l...

Elon Musk would consider having Tesla acquire a legacy automaker

Elon Musk would consider leveraging Tesla’s mega $554 billion market cap to buy a legacy automaker, but only if it was on friendly terms, the billionaire entrepreneur said Tuesday in a wide-ranging interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfn...

Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti is the best GPU under $500

Nvidia's newest entry in the GeForce RTX 3000-series is the $400 RTX 3060 Ti with monster 1440p performance and more.Read More

Nvidia introduces AI for generating video conference talking heads from 2D images

Nvidia researchers created AI for recreating and manipulating talking heads in video conferences from a singe 2D image.Read More

US official says every American who wants a covid-19 vaccine will have one by June

An official with the US covid-19 vaccine initiative says anyone in the country who wants a vaccine will be able to have it by June, seven months from now. The confident projection was made by retired Lieutenant General Paul Ostrowski, director of...

Scale AI hits $3.5B valuation as it turns the AI boom into a venture bonanza

Scale AI, the four-year-old data labeling startup, has discovered that selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence is big business. The company, which created a visual data labeling platform that uses software an...

Salesforce beats growth expectations as investors digest the Slack acquisition

Announcing TechCrunch’s 2021 Event Calendar

We know that you’re hard at work building the next great startup, so we want to get our events on your radar early for next year. We’re excited to announce our 2021 fully virtual events line-up. Mark your calendars! TC Sessions: Justice March 3, 202...