Thursday, October 14, 2021

Beacon, which helps users build custom trading and risk management apps, raises a $56M Series C led by Warburg Pincus (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs:
Beacon, which helps users build custom trading and risk management apps, raises a $56M Series C led by Warburg Pincus  —  Beacon Platform Incorporated, a NYC-based cloud-based platform for quant development that enables users to build custom trading and risk management applications, closed a $56m Series C funding round.



Facebook says it is expanding its "less political" News Feed test to 75 new countries, for a total of more than 80 (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Facebook says it is expanding its “less political” News Feed test to 75 new countries, for a total of more than 80  —  Facebook is slowly expanding its effort to weed out political content from News Feed.  The company is now testing its “less political” feed in 75 new countries, Facebook said in an update.



London-based TradingView, which offers social networking and data analysis tools for financial markets, raises $298M at a $3B valuation led by Tiger Global (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)

Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg:
London-based TradingView, which offers social networking and data analysis tools for financial markets, raises $298M at a $3B valuation led by Tiger Global  —  Financial information platform and social network TradingView Inc. raised $298 million at a $3 billion valuation in a funding round led …



TSMC says it will build its first plant in Japan, focusing on 22nm and 28nm chips, becoming operational in 2024 (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia:
TSMC says it will build its first plant in Japan, focusing on 22nm and 28nm chips, becoming operational in 2024  —  Taiwan titan warns of softening smartphone and PC demand amid supply chain chaos  —  TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's biggest contract chipmaker …



Facebook names Nicola Mendelsohn as VP of its global ad business, succeeding Carolyn Everson, who departed earlier this year; Mendelsohn was VP for EMEA (Megan Graham/Wall Street Journal)

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook names Nicola Mendelsohn as VP of its global ad business, succeeding Carolyn Everson, who departed earlier this year; Mendelsohn was VP for EMEA  —  Ms. Mendelsohn succeeds Carolyn Everson, who maintained tight relationships with marketing executives



Ampere Vehicles launches Magnus EX electric scooter with 121 km battery range at Rs 68,999

Ampere Electric has introduced the Magnus EX electric scooter with a claimed battery mileage of 121 Km per charge at a price of Rs 68,999. https://ift.tt/3AFvFfx

UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published what it called the world's first guidance on auditor AI usage (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)

Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times : UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published...