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Boston-based Valo Health, which analyzes clinical data to identify molecules and predict their chances for use in drugs, raises $300M Series B (Daniel McCoy/Wichita Business Journal)
Boston-based Valo Health, which analyzes clinical data to identify molecules and predict their chances for use in drugs, raises $300M…
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Deliveroo says it has raised $180M in new funding from existing investors led by Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Management at a $7B+ valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
Deliveroo says it has raised $180M in new funding from existing investors led by Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Management…
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Profile of Tencent, China’s most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup investments worth ~$259B (Wall Street Journal)
Profile of Tencent, China’s most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup…
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New Delhi-based Rooter, a game streaming and e-sports service with 8.5M MAUs, raises a $25M Series A led by Lightbox, March Gaming, and Duane Park Ventures (Gaurav Laghate/The Economic Times)
New Delhi-based Rooter, a game streaming and e-sports service with 8.5M MAUs, raises a $25M Series A led by Lightbox,…
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Biden’s $2T infrastructure proposal allocates $50B for creating a technology directorate at the NSF and $50B for funding semiconductor manufacturing and R&D (Emily Birnbaum/Protocol)
President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, known as the American Jobs Plan, is a sweeping investment in the country’s…
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Facebook’s AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR violations (Dave Gershgorn/OneZero )
Facebook’s AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR…
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Bumble files for an IPO, says it had 42M MAUs, 2.4M total paying users, and lost $117M on revenue of $417M in the first nine months of 2020 (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)
Bumble files for an IPO, says it had 42M MAUs, 2.4M total paying users, and lost $117M on revenue of…
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Grab is setting up a drive-through vaccination service across Indonesia with the government, plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers and 5K people/week in Bali center (Soraya Permatasari/Bloomberg)
Grab is setting up a drive-through vaccination service across Indonesia with the government, plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers and 5K…
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An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa alienate non-native and non-standard English speakers (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)
An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa alienate…
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How Tim Cook’s supply chain expertise and diplomacy helped him grow Apple’s annual revenues from $108B in 2011 to $365B in 2021, with profits up 3.7x to $95B (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
How Tim Cook’s supply chain expertise and diplomacy helped him grow Apple’s annual revenues from $108B in 2011 to $365B…
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