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Mark Cuban’s Fireside app attracts NFL stars and others as backers 16.11.2021 3:52

Mark Cuban’s Fireside, an audio platform that is helping creators share their stories with audiences through live, interactive and virtual shows, is in advanced stages to close a “seed+” round, two sources familiar with the matter told me. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple offers $30 million to settle off-the-clock bag search controversy 15.11.2021 3:06

California's supreme court ruled Apple broke the law by failing to pay employees while they waited for mandatory bag and iPhone searches. Now, Apple has offered to pay $30 million to settle the suit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oxygen, a neobank for freelancers and small businesses, in talks to raise funds at over $500 million valuation 15.11.2021 2:46

Oxygen, a startup that is bringing digital banking services to freelancers and micro-and small-sized businesses, is in talks to raise a new round at a valuation of over $500 million, two sources familiar with the matter told me. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Starlink’s new rectangular satellite broadband dish is smaller and lighter than before 12.11.2021 3:09

Starlink has introduced a new user terminal customers can get with their starter kit. The company now offers a rectangular option that's smaller and lighter than its original circular one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

GM plans to build a military vehicle based on the Hummer EV 12.11.2021 2:53

The Hummer H1 was based on a military truck, and now it appears GM is ready to return the favor: GM plans to build a military vehicle prototype based on the upcoming Hummer EV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tencent shares its metaverse vision for the first time 11.11.2021 4:46

How could Tencent not jump on the metaverse bandwagon when Facebook is hinging its future on the new buzzword? At this stage, Tencent’s approach seems more measured than Facebook’sÂ $10 billion investment into its metaverse division. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ample raises $30M to take battery swapping business to Europe 11.11.2021 3:21

Ample, a startup developing battery swapping technology for electric vehicles, has scored another $30 million from The Blackstone Group and Spanish multinational financial services company Banco Santander. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Digital restaurant startup Zak orders up new capital on mission to be ‘Toast of LatAm’ 10.11.2021 4:31

As food operators themselves, ZAK founders saw first-hand last year the toll it was taking on restaurants that needed to quickly reinvent themselves during the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

fuboTV to acquire streaming platform Molotov for $190 million 10.11.2021 4:26

fuboTV is making a significant move in Europe with plans to acquire Molotov, a French startup with a leading television streaming service. fuboTV also operates a TV streaming platform, but it is currently only operating in the U.S., Canada and Spain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AudioMob, which serves audio ads inside mobile games, raises a $14M Series A 09.11.2021 2:59

AudioMob is a startup that provides ‘non-intrusive’ audio ads within mobile games. It turns out that gamers don’t seem to mind little ads like this popping up, and somehow AudioMob seems to have cracked the mechanic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Instagram’s creator subscriptions nearing launch, App Store listing reveals 09.11.2021 5:23

Instagram earlier this year said it would explore the idea of creator subscriptions and was later spotted developing a feature that would offer exclusive Stories that were only visible to a creator’s subscriptions. Now, it seems, the company is poised to launch creator subscriptions into broader testing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Edtech startup BrightChamps comes out of stealth mode with $63 million funding 08.11.2021 4:56

BrightChamps, an Indian edtech startup that is attempting to bridge the learning gap left by K12 schools, said on Monday it has raised $51 million in a new financing round and $63 million to date since launching a year ago as the Goa-headquartered firm looks to expand its footprints in over 10 nations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

US government offers $10M bounty for DarkSide ransomware hackers 08.11.2021 3:56

The U.S. Department of State is upping the ante in its fight against ransomware by offering a reward of up to $10 million for information that helps identify or track down leaders of the notorious DarkSide ransomware group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An accelerator and fund says it’s giving away its voting rights to scientist founders: “They lose control” 05.11.2021 4:42

SciFounders, an accelerator program and fund launched back in January with $6 million in backing, has a new proposition for the scientist founders who it looks to help run their own companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rivian hit with gender discrimination lawsuit that alleges toxic ‘bro culture’ 05.11.2021 3:51

Rivian, the electric automaker that recently filed for an IPO, has been sued by a former sales and marketing vice president for alleged gender discrimination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nintendo releases Animal Crossing update a day early 04.11.2021 3:27

Grab your Nintendo Switches and start downloading theÂ “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” update, because it’s going to be a late night. Nintendo just dropped the update to version 2.0 – a day early. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Allbirds goes public, sustainability is the mantra of the future 04.11.2021 5:29

Allbirds started with a humble, natural wool shoe, but it is not merely an apparel company today. It has become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Femtech startup illumigyn secures $33M to provide women with accessible and affordable medical care 03.11.2021 4:37

According toÂ World Health Organization, cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer among women, affected approximately 570,000 women and resulted in about 311,000 death in 2018.Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Facebook says it will delete facial recognition data on more than a billion users 03.11.2021 3:57

Just days after rebranding itself, Facebook announced plans to delete a trove of the most worrisome data that the world’s biggest social network collected on more than a billion individuals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

137 Ventures, which buys equity from private company shareholders, just raised a new fund 02.11.2021 4:33

137 Ventures, a 10-year-old, San Francisco-based investment firm that mostly buys private company shares of founders, executives, early employees, and other large shareholders of private, high-growth tech companies, has closed its fifth fund with $350 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Epic pulls plug on Fortnite in China 02.11.2021 4:10

Epic Games announced today that its work to bring video game mega-title Fortnite to the Chinese market is shutting down. The company said in an official announcement that the long-running test of the popular shooter title in China will conclude on November 15th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Six-month-old Zepto, a 10-minute grocery delivery startup in India, raises $60 million 01.11.2021 5:16

Two Stanford dropouts in their late teens, who have previously collaborated on a number of projects including a ride-hailing commute app for school kids, said on Sunday they have raised $60 million to disrupt India’s overcrowded and highly-competitive grocery delivery market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MIT’s CSAIL self-driving water taxis launched in the Amsterdam canals 01.11.2021 3:15

Granted, there aren’t many cities where self-driving water taxis are a viable option, but Amsterdam may just be one of those places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google and Jio’s smartphone with custom Android OS for India launches November 4 for $87 29.10.2021 4:57

Google and top Indian telecom network Jio Platforms said on Friday that their much-anticipated budget smartphone, JioPhone Next, will go on sale in the world’s second largest smartphone market on November 4 (to coincide with Big Indian festival of Diwali.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Facebook changes its corporate branding to Meta 29.10.2021 5:52

Well, it’s official. After 17 years of being called Facebook, the social networking parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus has a new name. Facebook’s corporate entity is now Meta. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg announced the change at the company’s AR/VR-focused Connect event, sharing that the new title captured more of the company’s core […] Learn more about your ad choi...