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Bradley Tusk — who spent his early career in Democratic politics and later became a consultant and lobbyist for private companies battling regulators — spends much of his time these days as a venture capitalist. But while Tusk is a generalist, he insists he isn’t interested in just any startup; his expertise, he says, is…

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. December is getting long in the tooth, there’s Christmas music on every radio station, and the poinsettias are in full bloom. It looks like the year is getting close to the end,…

A major factor driving corporate environmental strategy is public image. Survey after survey finds that environmental practices are increasingly starting to influence consumers’ choice to shop or not shop at a given company. A report by global strategy consultancy firm Simon-Kucher & Partners found that 85% of shoppers across different countries shifted their buying habits in…

Retail giants Walmart  (WMT) – Get Free Report and Amazon  (AMZN) – Get Free Report wage a fierce battle for business with Amazon having a much larger online presence with 2.5 billion average site visitors monthly compared to Walmart’s 429 million, Storebrands.com reported in October. However, Walmart has the brick and mortar dominance with the Bentonville, Ark.,…

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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by…

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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. May the earnest among us rise up: Techies, it’s prediction season. It’s my favorite time of the year, not because I’m a glutton for threads…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Henry Cavill will star in and executive produce a series in the Warhammer 40,000 universe for Amazon Studios, the franchise announced Friday, barely a day after the Man of Steel star confirmed he had been dropped from the next Superman film. Henry Cavill will star in and executive…

Wow, that was quick. When Elon Musk bought Twitter and took it private in October, I figured we’d have a while before things took a turn. Then, after he laid off about half the company’s employees, that estimate shortened a bit. Now, after last night’s Spaces brouhaha, during which Musk confronted journalists he banned for…