Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health raises a $40M Series B and says it has over 200,000 individual users and 600 businesses (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health raises a $40M Series B and says it has over 200,000 individual users and 600 businesses  —  There's no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic.



Peloton CEO and co-founder John Foley will step down, replaced by ex-Spotify and Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy; Peloton will cut 2,800 jobs and cancel Ohio factory (Cara Lombardo/Wall Street Journal)

Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Peloton CEO and co-founder John Foley will step down, replaced by ex-Spotify and Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy; Peloton will cut 2,800 jobs and cancel Ohio factory  —  Company to name former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy as replacement, overhaul board and cut costs



The UK's Online Safety Bill will mandate porn websites verify users' age or face fines; similar proposals were quietly dropped in 2019 after criticism (Shiona McCallum/BBC)

Shiona McCallum / BBC:
The UK's Online Safety Bill will mandate porn websites verify users' age or face fines; similar proposals were quietly dropped in 2019 after criticism  —  Porn websites in the UK will be legally required to verify the age of their users under new internet safety laws.



London-based m3ter, which helps SaaS companies charge clients on a usage basis, emerges from stealth with $17.5M from Kindred Capital and others (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
London-based m3ter, which helps SaaS companies charge clients on a usage basis, emerges from stealth with $17.5M from Kindred Capital and others  —  A lot of SaaS products are sold on flat-rate subscriptions.  But there is a growing trend, especially among more price-conscious customers …



Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey to join Bluesky's board

Jay Graber, chief executive of Bluesky, said in a blog post on Monday that the organization will build and release "a prototype that illustrates our approach." https://ift.tt/GwAlOV5

Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in ...