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
MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia : MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's...
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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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The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrate...
