A look at Lumafield, which designs CT scanners for consumer products companies like L'Oreal, OXO, and Trek Bicycle, and has raised $32.5M — Lumafield emerges from stealth with $32.5 million in funding and early customers that include L'Oreal, OXO and Trek Bicycle.
Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan have begun to formally collect signatures to form a union — If successful, the effort would be the first time an Apple retail location has unionized — Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal retail location …
A profile of Anna Fang, CEO of China-based ZhenFund, who has backed 30+ seed-stage startups that became unicorns and 90+ startups that had a successful exit — When ZhenFund CEO Anna Fang was new to venture investing, her mentor told her that the right entrepreneurs to back are the ones …
Musk's definition of free speech is utter nonsense and his suggested Twitter fixes totally ignore the content moderation lessons that platforms already learned — from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.
A look at Apple's yearslong effort to develop its own silicon to power the Mac lineup and replace Intel chips, including an interview with Johny Srouji — Apple's risky, yearslong effort to design its own silicon paid off when supply-chain disruptions left competitors scrambling — Apple Inc. had a problem.
An interview with a former Xinjiang prisoner, who details how China extensively uses tech like Hikvision surveillance cameras to facilitate human rights abuses — The rare firsthand account will help investigate human rights abuses — For 10 months in 2018, Ovalbek Turdakun was a prisoner …
[Thread]: After Bill Gross' 2015 hostile takeover attempt, Twitter locked the API and limited third-party clients to 100K users until Dorsey's return — Twitter is important, but it's always been vulnerable as a company. When Twitter does something which upsets the community of users, it is often due to this vulnerability. Let me tell you a little known story about an earlier time a billionaire tried a hostile takeover of twitter
China bans livestreaming of unauthorized video games, particularly of overseas games or competitions that have not been approved — China said on Friday the livestreaming of unauthorised video games was banned, signalling stricter enforcement of rules as part of its broad crackdown …
Rapido, whose bike taxi service is available in about 100 Indian cities, raises a $180M Series D led by Swiggy, at a $800M valuation — Swiggy has led a $180 million financing round into bike taxi startup Rapido as the Indian food delivery giant looks to broaden its fleet network across the country, the two firms said on Friday.
PitchBook NVCA report: US investments in Q1 remained strong at $70.7B, but IPOs and exits slowed to $33.6B after three consecutive quarters over $192B — Venture capital dealmaking activity and exits slowed in the first quarter after a record-breaking 2021, according to the Q1 2022 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor.
Lionel Barber / Financial Times : A profile of SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, who transformed the Japanese tech conglomerate into a global...
