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Friday, October 29, 2021
Toyota Eyes Cost Cuts, Scale With bZ4X - First of Its EV-Only bZ Series
Xiaomi Leads Indian Smartphone Market in Q3, Apple Fastest Growing Brand: Counterpoint
Nikon Z9 Flagship Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera Debuts in India: All Details
WhatsApp to No Longer Support Some Android Phones From November 1
Volkswagen, Stellantis Say 1.4 Million Cars Lost Due to Chip Shortage
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Future Retail moves Delhi High Court against SIAC order
Shopify reports Q2 revenue of $1.12B, up 46% YoY, and gross merchandise volume of $41.8B, up 35% YoY, and says cumulative GMV reached $400B (Reuters)
Reuters:
Shopify reports Q2 revenue of $1.12B, up 46% YoY, and gross merchandise volume of $41.8B, up 35% YoY, and says cumulative GMV reached $400B — Canada's Shopify Inc's (SHOP.TO) third-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street estimates, hurt by stiff competition as rivals invest more money to develop their e-commerce platforms.
ClickHouse, which provides an online analytical processing database management system, raises $250M at a $2B valuation led by Coatue and Altimeter (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
ClickHouse, which provides an online analytical processing database management system, raises $250M at a $2B valuation led by Coatue and Altimeter — - Database management business works on real-time analytics — Startup raises $250 million led by Coatue and Altimeter
Review of Raspberry Pi's new $15 Zero 2 W, featuring a 64-bit CPU, 512MB RAM, and WiFi 4: surprisingly powerful and ideal for emulation and automation projects (K.G Orphanides/Wired UK)
K.G Orphanides / Wired UK:
Review of Raspberry Pi's new $15 Zero 2 W, featuring a 64-bit CPU, 512MB RAM, and WiFi 4: surprisingly powerful and ideal for emulation and automation projects — The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is powerful for a computer the size of a matchbox, but get a Pi 4 or Pi 400 if you want a better desktop experience
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who earned $154.6M last year, will take a pay cut to $62,500 and forego equity grants until diversity goals are met (Jennifer Ryan/Bloomberg)
Jennifer Ryan / Bloomberg:
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who earned $154.6M last year, will take a pay cut to $62,500 and forego equity grants until diversity goals are met — - Compensation included paying CEO $154.6 million last year — Company facing sexual harassment and discrimination case
Sources: Mimecast, which makes email security tools, is exploring a possible sale or investment; Mimecast went public in 2015 and is valued at $4.5B (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Mimecast, which makes email security tools, is exploring a possible sale or investment; Mimecast went public in 2015 and is valued at $4.5B — Cybersecurity-software company has market value of about $4.5 billion — Email-security software maker Mimecast Ltd. is exploring a possible sale …
Open-source SQL database developer Yugabyte raises a $188M Series C at a $1.3B valuation led by Sapphire Ventures (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Open-source SQL database developer Yugabyte raises a $188M Series C at a $1.3B valuation led by Sapphire Ventures — Today's world is run on data, and the amount of it that is being produced, managed and used to power services is growing by the minute — to the tune of some 79 zettabytes this year, according to one estimate.
Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy, which wants to be the "AWS for blockchains", raises a $250M Series C at a $3.5B valuation led by a16z (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk:
Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy, which wants to be the “AWS for blockchains”, raises a $250M Series C at a $3.5B valuation led by a16z — The venture giant invests in the kinds of companies Alchemy has called clients for years. — Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy …
Internal document from far-right militia Oath Keepers, with details on 25,000 members, shows Facebook was the most common way of discovering the group (Ali Breland/Mother Jones)
Ali Breland / Mother Jones:
Internal document from far-right militia Oath Keepers, with details on 25,000 members, shows Facebook was the most common way of discovering the group — Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. — How does one come to join a militia?
OpenAI pauses the use of the Sky voice in ChatGPT after users said it sounded too much like Scarlett Johansson, says voice was not chosen to be an "imitation" (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg : OpenAI pauses the use of the Sky voice in ChatGPT after users said it sounded too much like Scarlett Johansson,...
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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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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...