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- Sidekick Health scores $20M for its gamified digital care platform
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 03:00 AMNordic digital therapeutics company, Sidekick Health, has closed a $20 million Series A led by pan-European VC Wellington Partners and healthcare focused VC Asabys Partners. Existing investors, Novator and Frumtak Ventures, also participated in the oversubscribed round.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Microsoft says Iranian hackers targeted ‘high profile’ conference attendees
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 08:00 AMMicrosoft says hackers backed by the Iranian government targeted over 100 high-profile potential attendees of two international security and policy conferences.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google’s display advertising business is under antitrust probe in Italy
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 08:56 AMItaly’s competition authority has opened an antitrust investigation into Google’s display ad business — adding another allegation of abuse of a dominant position to the tech giant’s regulatory woes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Loon sets stratospheric sustained flight record with 312 day balloon trip
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 09:00 AMAlphabet’s Loon, the company focused on creating new networking capabilities using stratosphere-based infrastructure, has set a new world record for a continuous stratospheric flight.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Investors back Pacific Consolidated Holdings to merge leading LA-based liquor and weed delivery companies
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 09:02 AMThere’s a new company that’s sitting on top of some of the fastest growing consumer-facing businesses in the world — liquor and marijuana delivery — and its name is Pacific Consolidated Holdings Group.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Microsoft stock flat despite better-than-expected earnings, strong Azure growth
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 04:23 PMToday after the bell, Microsoft reported its calendar Q3 2020 earnings, the period of time that corresponds to its Q1 fiscal 2021 period. In the three months ending September 30, Microsoft had revenues of $37.2 billion and per-share profit of $1.82.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Armenian email campaign asks SpaceX not to aid Turkish regime with satellite launch
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 04:54 PMSpaceX staff and members of the media have been inundated this morning with emails ostensibly from concerned Armenians around the world, asking the company to cancel a launch contract with the Turkish government.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Mophie introduces a modular wireless charging module
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 05:58 PMHere’s a clever addition for Mophie, one of the longstanding battery case makers, which is now a part of the same smartphone accessory conglomerate as Zagg, Braven, iFrogz and InvisibleShield.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump’s campaign website hacked by cryptocurrency scammers
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 07:41 PMPresident Trump’s campaign website was briefly and partially hacked Tuesday afternoon as unknown adversaries took over the “About” page and replaced it with what appeared to be a scam to collect cryptocurrency.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Panoply raises $10M for its cloud data platform
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 11:00 AMPanoply, a platform that makes it easier for businesses to set up a data warehouse and analyze that data with standard SQL queries, today announced that it has raised an additional $10 million in funding from Ibex Investors and C5 Capital.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Hej! Amazon opens Amazon.se in Sweden to expand in Europe
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 05:49 AMAmazon is the biggest online retailer in Europe, and today it took the next step in making that effort more localized.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MachEye raises $4.6M for its business intelligence platform
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 08:00 AMWe’ve seen our fair share of business intelligence (BI) platforms that aim to make data analysis accessible to everybody in a company. Most of them are still fairly complicated, no matter what their marketing copy says.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Former Uber CTO Thuan Pham joins South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 09:00 AMThuan Pham, who stepped down as Uber’s chief technology officer and longest-serving top executive in May, has a new job in South Korea. Coupang, the country’s largest e-commerce company by market share, announced today it has hired Pham as its new CTO.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Enso Security raises $6M for its application security management platform
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 09:00 AMEnso Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a new application security platform, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed funding round led by YL Ventures, with participation from Jump Capital.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Harley-Davidson is getting into the electric bicycle business
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 12:20 AMHarley-Davidson has spun out a new business dedicated to electric bicycles and plans to bring its first line of products to market in spring 2021.
The new business called Serial 1 Cycle Company started as a project within the motorcycle manufacturer’s product development center.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - T-Mobile launches new TVision streaming bundles, pricing starts at $10 per month
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 04:28 PMT-Mobile is launching new skinny bundles of live TV and streaming services to compete with expensive cable subscriptions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to address inequality exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Daily Crunch: Zoom adds end-to-end encryption to free calls
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 06:22 PMZoom adds a much-requested feature (but with a catch), TikTok partners with Shopify and Jack Dorsey lays out his argument for tomorrow’s Senate hearing. This is your Daily Crunch for October 27, 2020.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Anima’s latest update draws on the popularity of design and no-code tools
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 11:00 AMAnima, the company that turns design prototypes into code, has today announced the launch of Anima 4.0, which will allow designers to create prototypes in Figma that are translated into components in React with the click of a button.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Upstream aims to be the new home for your professional social life
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 11:32 AMLast fall, social analytics startup SocialRank sold its product and business to Trufan, allowing the team to focus on something new: a professional social network. Today, they’re officially unveiling Upstream to the public.
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- Streetbees raises $39M in a Series B round as brands race to interrogate Pandemic-hit consumers
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 04:13 AMStreetbees started out as an app for consumers to snap pictures of supermarket shelf layouts and get paid. Consumer brands wanted to know if the supermarkets really had put them at eye level or not.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Scopely raises $340 million at a $3.3 billion valuation as gaming grabs investors’ interest
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 08:27 AMIn a move to shore up institutional support in what’s likely to be it’s last fundraising as a private company, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming behemoth Scopely has raised $340 million in its latest eye-popping round of funding.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chronicle’s ex-CSO is starting a new company he doesn’t want you to know much about
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 09:00 AMMike Wiacek is back with a new company, a year after departing his role as chief security officer at Chronicle, Google’s moonshot cybersecurity company.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kandji hauls in $21M Series A as Apple device management flourishes during pandemic
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 09:01 AMKandji, a mobile device management (MDM) startup, launched last October. That means it was trying to build the early stage company just as the pandemic hit earlier this year. But a company that helps manage devices remotely has been in demand in this environment, and today it announced a $21 million Series A.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Watch Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s CEOs defend the law that created social media to Congress
Wednesday - 10/28/2020 - 12:00 AMThe CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google will appear before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday in big tech’s latest showdown with Congress.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Launch next-level networking with CrunchMatch at our TC Sessions: Space event
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 04:48 PMTC Sessions: Space 2020, our first space technology event, launches December 16-17, and you won’t want to miss our virtual conference focused on this fast-emerging startup category. You’ll hear from the space industry’s top movers, shakers and decision makers, including Space Command’s General John W.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google’s EU Android choice screen isn’t working say search rivals, calling for a joint process to devise a fair remedy
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 04:59 PMGoogle search engine rivals have dialled up pressure on the European Commission over the tech giant’s ‘pay-to-play’ choice screen for Android users in Europe — argu
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Via and Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture to offer shared robotaxi rides next year
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 07:31 PMMotional, the Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture, and on-demand shuttle startup Via plan to launch a shared robotaxi service for the public in a U.S. city in the first half of 2021.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Fab founder Jason Goldberg is back with Moxie, a new live-streaming fitness marketplace
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 09:16 PMAmid a pandemic that has closed down fitness centers worldwide, a spate of companies has muscled their way into the booming at-home fitness market.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Amazon adds device dashboard in bid to make Fire tablets a smart home control center
Tuesday - 10/27/2020 - 11:40 AMIt’s been a busy few weeks for the smart home race. Amazon, Google and Apple have all announced new smart speakers aimed at — among other things — cementing their respective positions at the center of users’ connected households.
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