Thursday, November 4, 2021
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Sony ZV-E10 Review: Jack of All Trades
Sama, which provides data to train AI models, raises a $70M Series B led by CDPQ, bringing its total raised to $85M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Sama, which provides data to train AI models, raises a $70M Series B led by CDPQ, bringing its total raised to $85M — Sama, a company providing data to train machine learning systems, has raised $70 million in a series B found led by CDPQ with participation from First Ascent Ventures …
PubNub, which provides messaging, presence, and other data-based APIs for apps, raises a $65M Series E led by Raine Group, bringing its total funding to $130M+ (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
PubNub, which provides messaging, presence, and other data-based APIs for apps, raises a $65M Series E led by Raine Group, bringing its total funding to $130M+ — Data streams with continual, real-time updates of information are a critical building block of how apps and sites function today …
Google strikes a cloud deal with CME and invests $1B in the futures exchange (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
Google strikes a cloud deal with CME and invests $1B in the futures exchange — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has invested $1 billion in futures-exchange giant CME Group Inc. and struck a deal to move the company's core trading systems to the cloud. — Under the deal, the technology giant's Google Cloud unit …
Paytm Said to Be Open to Bitcoin Offerings Once India Legalises Crypto
Realme to Launch a New Flagship Phone Early Next Year: Report
Low-Paid Workers Are Quitting Jobs Thanks to Crypto Profits: Survey
JioPhone Next Goes on Sale in India, Buyers Must Register First
US-based game publisher Devolver Digital raises around $261M in a London IPO, at a valuation of about $950M (James Batchelor/GamesIndustry.biz)
US-based game publisher Devolver Digital raises around $261M in a London IPO, at a valuation of about $950M — Fall Guys publisher is biggest US firm to trade on AIM, Sony Interactive Entertainment makes 5% investment in Devolver — Devolver Digital has begun trading on AIM …
Nintendo says it doesn't see "component shortages recovering" at the moment as it cuts Switch sales target from 25.5M to 24M for FY 2021 (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
Nintendo says it doesn't see “component shortages recovering” at the moment as it cuts Switch sales target from 25.5M to 24M for FY 2021 — - Company upgrades operating profit outlook citing FX rates — Sustaining sales momentum will depend heavily on OLED model
Cloudbeds, which makes management software for the hospitality industry, raises a $150M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing total funding to $253M (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)
Cloudbeds, which makes management software for the hospitality industry, raises a $150M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing total funding to $253M — As U.S. hotel occupancy hit pre-pandemic levels this summer, the hospitality industry is bracing for what is expected to be a rush of activity as people resume travel.
Eternals Review: Marvel's New Ensemble Crushes Oscar-Winning Director
Sources say Masayoshi Son's profit-sharing plan for Vision Fund employees is contributing to a stream of defections, because it is based primarily on seniority (Bloomberg)
Sources say Masayoshi Son's profit-sharing plan for Vision Fund employees is contributing to a stream of defections, because it is based primarily on seniority — Ever since billionaire investor Masayoshi Son set up the giant Vision Fund in 2017 to provide backing for technology startups …
PitchBook: female-founded startups raised a record $40.4B across 2,661 VC deals in the first three quarters of 2021, with the value of exits reaching $59B (Biz Carson/Protocol)
PitchBook: female-founded startups raised a record $40.4B across 2,661 VC deals in the first three quarters of 2021, with the value of exits reaching $59B — The pandemic took a toll on female founders in 2020: Funding to their companies fell 3% even in a bullish startup climate that saw overall venture funding rise by 16%.
Block unveils Dessa, a "true speech-to-speech" AI model trained on "nothing but human conversation" that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge : Block unveils Dessa, a “true speech-to-speech” AI model trained on “nothing but human conversation” that it says...
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Robert Hackett / Fortune : Profile of Kathryn Haun, a former prosecutor who created US' first federal “digital currency task force” a...
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Amid government scrutiny over its various trade practices, the firm has been able to hold on to a set of consumers looking for cheaper goods...
