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IHG runs 6,000 hotels in over 100 countries and serves more than 150 million guests each year.

Hotel giant IHG blames cyberattack for booking systems outage

While several major crypto trading platforms are making large-scale layoffs and freezing hiring, some of their rivals have rushed to reassure their staff and the public that they are sticking…

Amid market turmoil, crypto exchange Kraken says it’s filling 500+ roles

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The world of web development continues to become increasingly more democratized — and more creative — thanks to innovations in “headless” systems that give more flexibility around how a site…

Storyblok raises $47M to build out its headless CMS aimed at non-technical users like marketers

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Digging into the next wave of tech IPOs

At its annual hardware event, Amazon today announced new capabilities for its Alexa personal assistant that will allow it to become more personalized as it can now ask clarifying questions…

Amazon’s Alexa becomes a better conversationalist and can now ask you questions, too

TechCrunch is out hunting for bright spots in the startup world as we all come to grips with the pandemic — particularly where checks are actually being written despite everything.…

Startups Weekly: A new era for consumer tech

AWS today announced a number of IoT-related updates that, for the most part, aim to make getting started with its IoT services easier, especially for companies that are trying to…

AWS expands its IoT services, brings Alexa to devices with only 1MB of RAM
Startups

Your guide to WeWork’s CEO shuffle

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

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Hardware

Alex eReader shipping tomorrow

We told you all the rumors, we told you it was available for pre-order, and now we’re here to tell you, it’s finally shipping! The Spring Design Alex eReader is…

Hardware

Hands on with the Alex ereader

The Alex ereader is out and I got to look at it today for a few minutes. The top part is a real epaper screen and the bottom part is…

Spring Design this morning announced that its dual screen Alex eReader will be available online today (the rumors were true!) for $399. Customers can thus start pre-ordering the Android-based multimedia…

Spring Design, developer of the dual-screen Alex eReader, has struck a deal with Google that gives users of the device access to more than one million Google Books online or…