Some VR developers express frustrations with Meta's Quest Store fees, set at 30% for purchases and 15%-30% for subscriptions, given Meta's criticism of Apple t.co · 4 days ago
Source: a British Virgin Islands court ordered the liquidation of Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital on June 27; Teneo Restructuring will handle the process news.sky.com · 4 days ago
Israel-based Konnecto, which helps brands improve their marketing efforts by analyzing consumers' online purchasing data, has raised a $21M Series A geektime.com · 4 days ago
A profile of ADT, which is helping sell and install Nest smart home products, as it prepares to unveil its own smart home security software and hardware in 2023 bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
PicnicHealth, which lets patients manage their health records online and share their medical data with researchers, has raised a $60M Series C led by B Capital fiercebiotech.com · 4 days ago
London-based Birdie, which offers digital tools to in-home care providers to optimize their workflow, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $52M techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
Source: Byju's has offered to buy 2U Inc. for ~$15/share, a 61% premium to its Tuesday closing price, in a cash deal that values the US edtech company at ~$2B bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
NOAA triples its weather modeling capabilities with two supercomputers built by General Dynamics at a cost of $505M, each operating at a speed of 12.1 petaflops engadget.com · 4 days ago
Pave, whose software analyzes HR data to help companies close pay and equity gaps, raised a $100M Series C at a $1.6B valuation and acquired rival Option Impact protocol.com · 4 days ago
Normalyze, which enables security teams to continuously analyze, prioritize, and respond to cloud data threats, emerges from stealth with a $22.2M Series A venturebeat.com · 4 days ago
Nomad Health, an online marketplace for temporary healthcare jobs, has raised $105M, bringing its total funding to $200M+, as it expands beyond travel nurses forbes.com · 4 days ago
CoinFLEX CEO Mark Lamb says crypto investor Roger Ver owes CoinFLEX $47M in USDC, after Ver denied "some rumors" he defaulted on a debt to a counterparty coindesk.com · 4 days ago
Sources: Samsung Display acquires Germany-based OLED startup Cynora, which specialized in displays for foldable devices, for about $300M for its IP and tech bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann is stepping down and transitioning to executive chairman, to be replaced by Google's president of commerce Bill Ready wsj.com · 4 days ago
Meta tests Discord-like changes in Facebook Groups, adding a channels list in a left-aligned sidebar that can include audio rooms, text chats, and feeds theverge.com · 4 days ago
Sony launches InZone, a brand of gaming devices aimed at PC gamers but with tight PS5 integration, starting with 4K and 1080p 27" monitors and three headsets washingtonpost.com · 4 days ago
Google announces Google Public Sector, a new division aiming to bring Google Cloud tech to US educational institutions and federal, state, and local governments 9to5google.com · 4 days ago
A deep dive into Truth Social's struggles to build a competitive social media platform, largely because the company alienated tech talent and corporate partners reuters.com · 5 days ago
Airbnb makes its temporary ban on parties at rented properties, introduced in 2020, permanent, saying the ban "became much more than a public health measure" theverge.com · 5 days ago
After announcing plans to acquire Blinkit, Zomato's stock dropped 6.6% on Monday and ~8% on Tuesday, 21% below its IPO price, cutting ~$1.1B from its market cap bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
Long-Term Stock Exchange, a Silicon Valley-based rival to the NYSE and Nasdaq, raised $100M from the Walmart family's James Walton and The Space Between wsj.com · 5 days ago
FrontApp, which offers the Front customer communications tool, raised $65M led by Salesforce and Battery at a $1.7B post-money valuation, up from $859M in 2020 bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
A Moscow court fines Twitch, Pinterest, and Airbnb ~$38K and UPS ~$19K for allegedly refusing to store Russian citizens' personal data in Russia reuters.com · 5 days ago
After freezing withdrawals, crypto exchange CoinFlex plans to issue up to 47M Recovery Value USD tokens, offering a 20% annual return, to repay a $47M debt bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
a16z's Marc Andreessen and Packy McCormick failing to coherently explain Web3 use cases demonstrates the hollowness of the space, often obscured by boosterism newsletters.theatlantic.com · 5 days ago
[Thread] A look at the English Premier League soccer clubs' crypto sponsorships and fan tokens, most of which have tanked in value, exposing fans to big losses twitter.com · 5 days ago
New York-based Gloat, an AI-powered internal jobs board, raised a $90M Series D led by Generation Investment Management, bringing its total funding to $192M techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
A look at DALL-E Mini, a viral image-generation service by Hugging Face based on OpenAI's DALL-E offering good, absurd fun while showing how AI can warp reality wired.com · 5 days ago
Opaque Systems, which is building AI to handle data in hardware-based trusted execution environments, raised a $22M Series A led by Walden Catalyst Partners techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
Arm announces new mobile Armv9 CPUs with improved performance and new GPUs including the flagship Immortalis-G715, its first with hardware-enabled ray-tracing androidauthority.com · 5 days ago
Netflix plans to grow its investment in the Asia Pacific, which has 15% of Netflix's subscribers and is forecast to be the biggest driver of further expansion bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
A look at Plural, a €250M early-stage fund led by Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus, Teleport co-founder Sten Tamkivi, Songkick co-founder Ian Hogarth, and others techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company's plans to pursue M&A deals and expand hiring following its IPO, after Arm China transitioned its leadership t.co · 5 days ago
After Twitter gives Elon Musk access to its firehose and historical tweet data, experts doubt the data will provide conclusive answers on spam and bots wsj.com · 5 days ago
Privacy advocates say the SmartLINK app, an alternative to ankle monitors, helped ICE increase the number of people it tracks from 6K to 230K within three years documentedny.com · 5 days ago
Hypercasual video games, with simple gameplay and low-stakes challenges, are getting more sophisticated as studios struggle to retain monetizable players wsj.com · 5 days ago
Paris-based Kaiko, which offers crypto analytics tools for institutional investors and businesses, raised a $53M Series B led by Eight Roads bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
UK startup Speechmatics, which uses AI to translate speech to text, regardless of accent, raised a $62M Series B led by Susquehanna and says it has 170 clients techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
Google makes Google Earth Engine, which tracks the earth's surface, available to any commercial or government organization using Google Cloud zdnet.com · 5 days ago
Filing: Google asks the US FEC to green light a program that would exempt campaign-related emails from spam; GOP alleges Gmail unfairly flags its emails as spam axios.com · 5 days ago
Siemens plans to buy Brightly, a North Carolina-based provider of buildings and infrastructure management software, from Clearlake Capital for $1.58B bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
New Delhi-based Progcap, a digital bank that provides working capital to SMBs, raised a $40M Series C extension at a $600M valuation, up 3x since September 2021 techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
Sam Bankman-Fried says there are no active talks for FTX to acquire Robinhood; Robinhood says no acquisition can go through without the founders' approval techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
T-Mobile launched App Insights, letting marketers target its wireless customers based on apps they have installed and engagement patterns; users can opt out theverge.com · 5 days ago
How SCOTUS overturning Roe could be used to curb online freedoms and surveil vulnerable populations, as happened to sex workers following FOSTA/SESTA in 2018 wired.com · 5 days ago
Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange FTX is exploring an acquisition of Robinhood; Robinhood's stock closes up 14% bloomberg.com · 6 days ago
UK regulators investigate Kristo Käärmann, CEO and co-founder of money transfer company Wise, after tax authorities alleged he failed to pay a £720K+ tax bill cnbc.com · 6 days ago
London-based BNPL startup Hokodo raised a $40M Series B led by Notion Capital, following an £8.8M Series A in June 2021 news.crunchbase.com · 6 days ago
Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel techcrunch.com · 6 days ago
Google says Hangouts will shut down in November as it begins prompting mobile Hangouts users to move to Chat theverge.com · 6 days ago