Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Dublin-based Wayflyer, which offers e-commerce funding in exchange for future revenue, raised $1B from Neuberger Berman via an “off-balance sheet program” — Wayflyer, which provides financing to e-commerce startups in exchange for a portion of their future revenue …
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Dublin-based Wayflyer, which offers e-commerce funding in exchange for future revenue, raised $1B from Neuberger Berman via an "off-balance sheet program" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
The EU lists the 22 services falling under the Digital Markets Act, including TikTok and Facebook, and will assess if Microsoft's services and iMessage qualify (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU lists the 22 services falling under the Digital Markets Act, including TikTok and Facebook, and will assess if Microsoft's services and iMessage qualify — - Tech firms set to challenge EU in digital antitrust clampdown — Apple's App Store, Google Search, Amazon marketplace on list
The UK says a bug caused its air traffic system to confuse two checkpoints 4,000 nautical miles apart, leading to a huge outage, and plans to review the issue (Kate Duffy/Bloomberg)
Kate Duffy / Bloomberg:
The UK says a bug caused its air traffic system to confuse two checkpoints 4,000 nautical miles apart, leading to a huge outage, and plans to review the issue — - Checkpoints 4,000 miles apart had duplicate identifiers — System update in the works, NATS says after day of disruption
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Filing: SoftBank prices Arm's shares at $47 and $51, aiming to raise up to $4.87B by selling 95.5M shares, for a $52B+ valuation and the biggest US IPO of 2023 (Manya Saini/Reuters)
Manya Saini / Reuters:
Filing: SoftBank prices Arm's shares at $47 and $51, aiming to raise up to $4.87B by selling 95.5M shares, for a $52B+ valuation and the biggest US IPO of 2023 — SoftBank Group's (9984.T) Arm is aiming to raise up to $4.87 billion in the chip designer's U.S. initial public offering, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday.
Israeli payments company ThetaRay, which uses AI to monitor financial transactions, raised $57M led by Portage, taking its total funding to $148M (Globes Online)
Globes Online:
Israeli payments company ThetaRay, which uses AI to monitor financial transactions, raised $57M led by Portage, taking its total funding to $148M — The investment will allow ThetaRay to capitalize on significant market demand as banks and fintech companies look to replace legacy tools …
iPhone 16 Ultra could get this Apple Vision Pro feature
Indian telecoms giants Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone-Idea ask regulators to consider forcing internet companies to pay for network usage, echoing efforts globally (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian telecoms giants Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone-Idea ask regulators to consider forcing internet companies to pay for network usage, echoing efforts globally — Telecom operators in India, the second largest wireless market, would like internet companies to compensate for using their networks …
Happy Teachers Day 2023: How to download and share WhatsApp stickers
Sources: China plans to launch a new state-backed fund that aims to raise ~$41B for its chip sector, larger than the ~$19B and ~$27B funds from 2014 and 2019 (Reuters)
Reuters:
Sources: China plans to launch a new state-backed fund that aims to raise ~$41B for its chip sector, larger than the ~$19B and ~$27B funds from 2014 and 2019 — China is set to launch a new state-backed investment fund that aims to raise about $40 billion for its semiconductor sector …
Sunday, September 3, 2023
How Google may have a 'Shorts problem' on YouTube
iPhone SOS feature: Elon Musk's SpaceX will send satellites for Apple-backed company
How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires — We can already detect fires from space, soon after they start. Here's why we don't yet have a nationwide system for alerting us when they do—but could someday.
After ADL's CEO noted talking to X CEO Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic X posts surged and #BanTheADL trended as Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts (Matt Binder/Mashable)
Matt Binder / Mashable:
After ADL's CEO noted talking to X CEO Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic X posts surged and #BanTheADL trended as Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts — Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours. — Over the past 24 hours …
A look at the endless battle being waged by a group of internet sleuths, trans engineers, and activists to banish stalking forum Kiwi Farms from the internet (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
A look at the endless battle being waged by a group of internet sleuths, trans engineers, and activists to banish stalking forum Kiwi Farms from the internet — The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider
Spotify rolls out new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada to generate scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as "nutritional" (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
Jessica Testa / New York Times : Spotify rolls out new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada to generate scripts and voiceo...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Expanding its "Azure IP Advantage" programme, Microsoft is donating 500 patents to start-ups that are part of a non-profit organis...