Month: September 2018

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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)

September 15, 2018 0
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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)

September 15, 2018 0
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Chinese Startup Unitree Begins Selling a Headless Robot Dog for $2,700

September 15, 2018 0
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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)

September 15, 2018 0
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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)

September 15, 2018 0
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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)

September 15, 2018 0
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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)

September 15, 2018 0
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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)

September 15, 2018 0
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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)

September 15, 2018 0
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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)

September 15, 2018 0
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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)

September 15, 2018 0
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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)

September 15, 2018 0