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We round up the startups that failed in 2019.

New details are revealed about Huawei's support from the Chinese government, and Russia is testing a separate Internet of its very own.

Here's your daily crunch for December 27th, 2019.

First up, we're remembering the startups we lost in 2019.

This year's batch doesn't include any story quite as spectacular

as last year's big Therinos Flammout, which gave us a best-selling book, documentary,

podcast series, and an upcoming Adam McKay slash Jennifer Lawrence film. Some, like

Movie Pass, however, may have come close, and for every Theronos, there are

dozens of stories of hard-working founders with promising products that simply couldn't make it

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