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TechCrunch Top 3

• Taking telehealth’s temperatureAmazon Clinic is Amazon’s latest venture into telehealth. This marketplace for virtual consultants will launch in 32 states at first. Ingrid reports. Yes, we know it’s been a few short months since the delivery giant shut down its Amazon Care telehealth service, but as Ingrid writes, this is the company’s chance to provide care that may be a bit more complex for the corner drugstore, but not as necessary for what could be an expensive doctor’s visit.
• Heat things up: Impulse isn’t able to light a physical fire under consumers to get them to try out its stovetop, but now with its $20 million cash injection, it can heat up the competition with its induction technology. Haje There are many more.
• UPI XOXO: This is the moment that India has been waiting for — Google Play finally adds United Payments Interface subscriptions, Jagmeet writes.

Startups and VC

Most of us live and die by our calendar, but Vimcal thinks we shouldn’t have to spend that much time creating the actual event. Ivan writes that this “nifty calendar app” will have you entering a new event and even providing scheduling options in just a few steps. You can also get it on a desktop.

Pucker up, robot enthusiasts! Pickle raised $26 million to fund its truck-unloading robots development. Brian writes is one of the “links in the chain that remains one of the least addressed.”

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5 best practices for bootstrapped startups

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For founders interested in building on their own, maintaining control and staying off the fundraising treadmill for as long as possible, investor/entrepreneur Marjorie Radlo-Zandi sets out five basic principles for bootstrapped founders in her latest TC+ article.

“Don’t be tempted to hop on a plane at a moment’s notice to meet potential customers in glamorous locations or for meetings in far-flung locations,” she writes. “Your bootstrapped business likely will not survive such big, optional financial outlays.”

Bootstrapped founders face longer odds, but if they can drive growth and reach product-market fit, “fundraising will be that much easier.”

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Big Tech Inc.

Alibaba’s logistics arm, Cainiao, is stretching out its arms to hug Latin America, which it hopes will fill some of the gap left by a Chinese commerce slowdown, Rita reports. Brazil is the latest market for e-commerce. The company started shipping goods to Brazil in January and plans to increase its presence over the next three year.

Netflix is offering help to get someone removed from your account. Netflix now offers a feature that lets subscribers remove devices from their accounts. It will then log the device from that account. Lauren writes.

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