Google announces a $1B deal to buy the London development Central Saint Giles, which includes 408K sq. ft. of office space — Site will have space for 10,000 UK employees who will work under hybrid workplace model — Google has announced a $1bn (£871m) deal to buy …
Conduit, which offers APIs for DeFi services, raises a $17M seed led by Portage Ventures — Financial institutions continue to search for ways to pile into the crypto market, and decentralized finance (DeFi) products are one mechanism that could help them capture share.
Twitter's “work from anywhere” policy helped increase Black employees in the US to 9.4% in 2021, up from 6.9% in 2020; women are 44.7% of its global workforce — Twitter Inc.'s early shift to a “work from anywhere” model during the pandemic as well as implementation of a requirement …
Austria's data protection watchdog upholds a decision that a local website using Google Analytics violates GDPR, a potential issue for US cloud services — A decision by Austria's data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does …
Researchers report that a record 2,240 third-party WordPress plugin vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2021, up 142% YoY, of which 77% have known public exploits — Last year brought forth much more than a Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez reunion - analysts found the number of exploitable WordPress plugin vulnerabilities exploded.
China's state-backed Blockchain Services Network (BSN) will roll out infrastructure to support NFTs; the NFTs will not be linked to cryptocurrencies — The BSN-Distributed Digital Certificate does not support crypto-transacted NFTs, and will allow businesses and individuals to build apps …
A look at Line's sticker economy, made up of over 4 million hobbyist and professional designers; Line's revenue from direct sticker sales was $200M+ in 2020 — A handful of designers have made their fortunes on the Line app, but now creators fear the market has become saturated.
Krafton, which makes PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, sues Apple and Google, arguing that neither company removed a game that allegedly copies PUBG — (Reuters) - The maker of the popular game “PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds” says in a new U.S. lawsuit that a Singapore-based company …
Research: London-based startups raised $25.5B in 2021, ahead of all other European cities, with most rounds over $100M; UK-based startups raised $40B in 2021 — London kept up a blistering pace of technology financing last year, leading all other European cities with $25.5 billion in fresh investment.
HR software company Justworks postpones its $260M IPO, which could have valued it at up to $2B, citing “market conditions” amid a tech stock sell-off — Nasdaq listing delayed ‘due to market conditions’ as index of new public companies falls by nearly 10% this month
TSMC reports Q4 revenue rose 24.1% YoY to $15.74B as net profit reached $6.01B; capex will reach $40B to $44B in 2022, up from $30B in 2021 — Taiwan chip firm TSMC posted on Thursday a 16.4% rise in quarterly profit to a record, thanks to robust global demand for semiconductors used in smartphones …
London-based Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, raises $1B in a share sale, sources say at a $40B valuation — The $1 billion deal vaults the digital-payments processor past all but a handful of other startups — Checkout.com didn't raise money from outside investors until 2019.
Jakarta-based investment app Pluang adds $55M to its Series B, bringing the round to $110M, led by Accel to expand in Southeast Asia — Jakarta-based investment app Pluang announced that it has raised $55 million led by Accel. This is a follow-on to its Series B and brings that round's total to $110 million.
Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...
