Zuck Celebrates $1 Trillion Valuation, Dismissed Antitrust Suits With Bizarre Flag-Waving Instagram Post
“Make America weird again,” quipped CNBC, describing Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram post today commemorating America’s national Independence Day holidayMarketWatch explains:Yes, that’s the Facebook Inc. chief executive wakeboarding while holding an American…
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Chrono24, an online marketplace for new and pre-owned luxury watches, raises ~$118M Series C led by General Atlantic, bringing its total raised to ~$236M (PYMNTS.com)
PYMNTS.com:Chrono24, an online marketplace for new and pre-owned luxury watches, raises ~$118M Series C led by General Atlantic, bringing its total raised to ~$236MDigital luxury watch marketplace Chrono24 announced on…
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Some popular YouTubers are building their own video sites, like Floatplane and Nebula, to help other creators publish and monetize niche video content (David Molloy/BBC)
David Molloy / BBC:Some popular YouTubers are building their own video sites, like Floatplane and Nebula, to help other creators publish and monetize niche video contentWhether he’s showing off astronomically…
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Interview with Chase CIO Rohan Amin on managing Chase’s $4B tech budget, API integrations, and this year’s rise in digital mortgage applications and banking (Mary Ann Azevedo/FinLedger)
Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger:Interview with Chase CIO Rohan Amin on managing Chase’s $4B tech budget, API integrations, and this year’s rise in digital mortgage applications and bankingChase CIO shares…
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SensorTower data shows Clubhouse has been downloaded 1.1M times in the Middle East, where its users see it as an open forum to discuss politics and taboo issues (New York Times)
New York Times:SensorTower data shows Clubhouse has been downloaded 1.1M times in the Middle East, where its users see it as an open forum to discuss politics and taboo issuesThe…
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Megvii files for an IPO in Shanghai, which may raise at least $922M; Megvii’s HK IPO application had lapsed after it was blacklisted by the Trump administration (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:Megvii files for an IPO in Shanghai, which may raise at least $922M; Megvii’s HK IPO application had lapsed after it was blacklisted by the Trump administration- Chinese AI firm…
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Australian cloud data analytics company Phocas Software raises AU$45M led by Ellerston Capital to accelerate its growth in the US and UK (Jeremy Horwitz/VentureBeat
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat:Australian cloud data analytics company Phocas Software raises AU$45M led by Ellerston Capital to accelerate its growth in the US and UKPhocas Software’s cloud data analytics tools…
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Q&A with Lambda School’s Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who don’t have one (Antonio Garcia-Martinez/The Pull Request)
Antonio Garcia-Martinez / The Pull Request:Q&A with Lambda School’s Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who…
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Jamf says it is now managing 20M Apple devices for over 47K customers, and added 16M devices in the past five years compared to 4M devices in its first 13 years (Bradley Chambers/9to5Mac)
Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac:Jamf says it is now managing 20M Apple devices for over 47K customers, and added 16M devices in the past five years compared to 4M devices in…
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Internal data shows only 11.3M US households regularly watch NBCU’s Peacock; sources: NBCU has pitched ViacomCBS about bundling their streaming services (The Information)
The Information:Internal data shows only 11.3M US households regularly watch NBCU’s Peacock; sources: NBCU has pitched ViacomCBS about bundling their streaming servicesAs Netflix and Disney cement their leads over an…
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Facebook’s AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR violations (Dave Gershgorn/OneZero)
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero:Facebook’s AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR violationsThe team purposely excluded Instagram images from…
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Germany to allow institutional funds, which currently manage a total of ~$2.1T, to hold up to 20% of their holdings in Bitcoin and other crypto assets (Stephan Kahl/Bloomberg)
Stephan Kahl / Bloomberg:Germany to allow institutional funds, which currently manage a total of ~$2.1T, to hold up to 20% of their holdings in Bitcoin and other crypto assets- Law…
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