Apple’s M1 chip, used in computers ranging from $699 to $1699, and tablets, upends decades of x86 OEM marketing and segmentation centered around CPU performance (Joel Hruska/ExtremeTech)
Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech: Apple’s M1 chip, used in computers ranging from $699 to $1699, and tablets, upends decades of x86 OEM marketing and segmentation centered around CPU performance — On…
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Unpacking Meta’s “regulatory headwinds” warning, as the adtech industry faces a privacy reckoning and Belgium upends IAB Europe’s GDPR compliance framework (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Unpacking Meta’s “regulatory headwinds” warning, as the adtech industry faces a privacy reckoning and Belgium upends IAB Europe’s GDPR compliance framework — What does Meta/Facebook’s favorite new…
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Livepeer, an Ethereum-based decentralized video streaming service, raises a $40M Series B from Tiger Global and others, bringing its total funding to $51M (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
Yogita Khatri / The Block: Livepeer, an Ethereum-based decentralized video streaming service, raises a $40M Series B from Tiger Global and others, bringing its total funding to $51M — Livepeer, a…
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Brazil-based Gupy, which uses AI to help around 1,500 companies select, hire, and train employees, raises ~$93M led by SoftBank Latin America Fund and Riverwood (Aluisio Alves/Reuters)
Aluisio Alves / Reuters: Brazil-based Gupy, which uses AI to help around 1,500 companies select, hire, and train employees, raises ~$93M led by SoftBank Latin America Fund and Riverwood — Brazilian…
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KKR closes $15B Fund IV, its Asia-focused private equity fund, nearly four years after its $9.3B Asian Fund III; KKR will put ~$1.3B into Fund IV (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
Rita Liao / TechCrunch: KKR closes $15B Fund IV, its Asia-focused private equity fund, nearly four years after its $9.3B Asian Fund III; KKR will put ~$1.3B into Fund IV — …
Read more » Zillow says it will acquire ShowingTime, which makes software to arrange home showings, for $500M, and announces record Q4: Zillow stock up 11%+ after hours (Patrick Clark/Bloomberg)
Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: Zillow says it will acquire ShowingTime, which makes software to arrange home showings, for $500M, and announces record Q4: Zillow stock up 11%+ after hours — –…
Read more » Interview with Chase CIO Rohan Amin on managing Chase’s $4B tech budget, API integrations, and this year’s rise in digital mortgage applications and banking (Mary Ann Azevedo/FinLedger)
Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: Interview with Chase CIO Rohan Amin on managing Chase’s $4B tech budget, API integrations, and this year’s rise in digital mortgage applications and banking — Chase…
Read more » In a letter to GOP Senators, Amazon says it removed a book because of its policy not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street …)
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: In a letter to GOP Senators, Amazon says it removed a book because of its policy not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity…
Read more » Walmart-owned Flipkart says it will acquire India-based online travel and hotel ticketing company Cleartrip; source says the deal values Cleartrip at about $40M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Walmart-owned Flipkart says it will acquire India-based online travel and hotel ticketing company Cleartrip; source says the deal values Cleartrip at about $40M — Flipkart said on…
Read more » Walmart, Target, and others are trying to stop bots from snapping up products before Christmas; research says bot traffic rose 73% between October and November (Obey Manayiti/Financial Times)
Obey Manayiti / Financial Times: Walmart, Target, and others are trying to stop bots from snapping up products before Christmas; research says bot traffic rose 73% between October and November — …
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