Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Google Will Lift Post-US Election Political Advertisement Ban Today
YouTube Bans New Videos Claiming US Election Fraud Following Criticism
SpaceX Starship Prototype Explodes on Landing After Test Launch
Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks raises $36.6M Series C led by AWS with participation from GV, Accel, and others, bringing total raised to $60M (Mark Haranas/CRN)
Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks raises $36.6M Series C led by AWS with participation from GV, Accel, and others, bringing total raised to $60M — Growing at a triple-digit clip, Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks is attracting top- notch investors including AWS, Ericsson and Google Ventures.
Semiconductor software design startup X-Epic raises $30.6M Series A, its third round in three months as China seeks self-reliance in the semiconductor industry (Che Pan/South China Morning Post)
Semiconductor software design startup X-Epic raises $30.6M Series A, its third round in three months as China seeks self-reliance in the semiconductor industry — X-Epic, a rising star in China's EDA industry, has raised an estimated US$60 million this year China is trying to chip away …
Wifi Dabba Is Taking Notes from Google to Make Your Wi-Fi Faster, Cheaper
Facebook Risks Instagram-WhatsApp Breakup in Antitrust Case
Seoul-based CHAI, whose API helps e-commerce companies accept over 20 payment options, has raised $60M Series B, following a $15M Series A in February (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)
Seoul-based CHAI, whose API helps e-commerce companies accept over 20 payment options, has raised $60M Series B, following a $15M Series A in February — Demand for contactless payments and e-commerce has grown in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is good news …
Uber says it is rolling out Uber Connect, its same-day, no-contact local package delivery service introduced in April, to 2,400+ new cities and towns in the US (Sasha Lekach/Mashable)
Uber says it is rolling out Uber Connect, its same-day, no-contact local package delivery service introduced in April, to 2,400+ new cities and towns in the US — Back in April, Uber was scrambling to provide something for its users who were no longer ordering ride-shares because, well, many of us were stuck at home.
Taiwan's GlobalWafers has agreed to acquire German silicon wafer manufacturer Siltronic for ~$4.5B, creating the world's largest silicon wafer maker by revenue (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
Taiwan's GlobalWafers has agreed to acquire German silicon wafer manufacturer Siltronic for ~$4.5B, creating the world's largest silicon wafer maker by revenue — Taiwan's GlobalWafers Co. agreed to acquire German silicon wafer manufacturer Siltronic AG for about 3.75 billion euros …
Facebook responds to the FTC and state AGs, saying the lawsuits they've brought forth are "revisionist history" and their antitrust case is unprecedented (Jennifer Newstead/About Facebook)
Facebook responds to the FTC and state AGs, saying the lawsuits they've brought forth are “revisionist history” and their antitrust case is unprecedented — Billions of people use Facebook's products every day. To earn their time and attention, we compete fiercely against many other services across the world.
AT&T has agreed to sell Japanese anime streaming service Crunchyroll to Sony's Funimation Global Group for $1.18B (D. M. Moore/Polygon)
AT&T has agreed to sell Japanese anime streaming service Crunchyroll to Sony's Funimation Global Group for $1.18B — The move consolidates the anime industry in a major way — On Wednesday, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. announced that AT&T and WarnerMedia agreed to sell Crunchyroll to Funimation.
Airbnb raises $3.5B in its IPO at $68 per share, up from a previous $56-$60 range, giving it a fully diluted valuation of $47.3B (Dan Primack/Axios)
Airbnb raises $3.5B in its IPO at $68 per share, up from a previous $56-$60 range, giving it a fully diluted valuation of $47.3B — Airbnb on Wednesday raised $3.5 billion in its IPO at a fully diluted valuation of around $47.3 billion, and will begin trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol ABNB.
Report: Hyundai Motor Group has agreed to purchase Boston Dynamics, maker of the Spot quadruped robot, from SoftBank for around $921M (Kyle Hyatt/Roadshow)
Report: Hyundai Motor Group has agreed to purchase Boston Dynamics, maker of the Spot quadruped robot, from SoftBank for around $921M — The acquisition has been expected since early November. … Hey, remember those deeply unsettling robot dogs that have been creeping out the internet for years and recently went into production?
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Spider-Man 3 Will Link Into Every Spider-Man Film, It Seems
China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments (Kiranjeet Kaur/IDC)
Kiranjeet Kaur / IDC : China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid ...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
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Top fintech companies are rushing to tap into this new consumer trend, with several of them offering digital solutions to small merchants. h...
