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Our own Brian Heater has the must read from this year's kinder

IRL CES event.

Tech Crunch decided to not attend in person due to

spiking COVID-19 cases but that doesn't mean that we're not paying attention.

If you want to know even more on what it looks like to cover the event from afar, Devon Caldwell has the nitty gritty

you are looking for.

After the athletic went about the nation hiring all the newspaper sports reporters it could, The company is reversing its model and is

instead selling to the New York Times for a reported price of 550 million dollars.

That's a lot of dough, but not much in today's startup terms.

Media remains a pretty hard game.

And Meta has a good VR holiday cycle.

Meta, the company behind Facebook and the Oculus VR platform appears to have a good holiday

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