Profile of Tencent, China’s most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup investments worth ~$259B (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:Profile of Tencent, China’s most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup investments worth ~$259BThe tech giant has investments worth…
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A look at r/WallStreetBets, a 2M-member subreddit that helped push GameStop’s stock to record highs and is now facing allegations of harassment (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Wired)
Cecilia D’Anastasio / Wired:A look at r/WallStreetBets, a 2M-member subreddit that helped push GameStop’s stock to record highs and is now facing allegations of harassmentThe denizens of the WallStreetBets subreddit…
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Chinese Startup Unitree Begins Selling a Headless Robot Dog for $2,700
Long-time Slashdot reader cusco shares an interesting report from IEEE Spectrum:In 2017, we first wrote about the Chinese startup Unitree Robotics, which had the goal of “making legged robots as…
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Discord bans pro-Trump server “The Donald” because of “its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection” (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:Discord bans pro-Trump server The Donald because of its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrectionThe server had…
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Immunai, which uses AI to analyze the human immune system, raises $60M Series A led by Schusterman Foundation and others (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Immunai, which uses AI to analyze the human immune system, raises $60M Series A led by Schusterman Foundation and othersImmunai, a startup developing an AI platform to…
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Singapore-based Rainforest, which wants to consolidate Asia-Pacific Amazon Marketplace brands, raises $36M in seed funding led by Nordstar (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:Singapore-based Rainforest, which wants to consolidate Asia-Pacific Amazon Marketplace brands, raises $36M in seed funding led by NordstarSingapore-based Rainforest is one of the newest entrants in the…
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Interview with two Apple executives about changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15, SharePlay, Universal Control, Quick Note, and more (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:Interview with two Apple executives about changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15, SharePlay, Universal Control, Quick Note, and moreApple executives talk about the new iPad software’s mental…
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California’s Fair Political Practices Commission proposes to fine Lyft $3,371 for failing to properly disclose what it paid for ads supporting Prop 22 (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:California’s Fair Political Practices Commission proposes to fine Lyft $3,371 for failing to properly disclose what it paid for ads supporting Prop 22California’s Fair Political Practices…
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Samsung quietly launched its TV Plus streaming service on the web in May and has added to its mobile app the ability to cast videos to devices via Chromecast (Janko Roettgers/Protocol)
Janko Roettgers / Protocol:Samsung quietly launched its TV Plus streaming service on the web in May and has added to its mobile app the ability to cast videos to devices…
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Zoom Q4: revenue of $882M, up 369% YoY, vs. $812M est., 467K customers with 10+ employees, projected Q1 revenue of $900M-$905M, vs. $829M est.; stock jumps 9%+ (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Jordan Novet / CNBC:Zoom Q4: revenue of $882M, up 369% YoY, vs. $812M est., 467K customers with 10+ employees, projected Q1 revenue of $900M-$905M, vs. $829M est.; stock jumps 9%+-…
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Tim Berners-Lee’s Inrupt, which helps people control their data, has raised ~$20M to date and is piloting projects with UK’s National Health Service and others (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:Tim Berners-Lee’s Inrupt, which helps people control their data, has raised ~$20M to date and is piloting projects with UK’s National Health Service and othersTim…
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Sources: as German car trading service Auto1 plans its IPO, Sequoia and Lone Pine will each buy 50M shares from existing investors and put 50M+ into its IPO (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:Sources: as German car trading service Auto1 plans its IPO, Sequoia and Lone Pine will each buy 50M shares from existing investors and put 50M+ into its IPO- Lone Pine…
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