Category: BUSINESS
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A profile of OpenSea, whose Web3 credentials have been called into question by crypto hardliners, as it tries to deal with security incidents and copycat NFTs (Gian M. Volpicelli/Wired UK)
Gian M. Volpicelli / Wired UK: A profile of OpenSea, whose Web3 credentials have been called into question by crypto hardliners, as it tries to deal with security incidents and copycat NFTs — Security issues and endless copycat listings are rife, but the platform’s attempt to stop them is angering everyone. — What is a real…
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Prominent open source advocate Miguel de Icaza is leaving Microsoft, which he joined in 2016 when it acquired Xamarin (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Prominent open source advocate Miguel de Icaza is leaving Microsoft, which he joined in 2016 when it acquired Xamarin — Former Xamarin cofounder Miguel de Icaza is leaving Microsoft, the company he joined through acquisition just over six years ago. — Well-known open source advocate … prominent miguel xamarinfoleyzdnet prominent icaza…
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Lyft Q4: revenue of $970M, vs. $940M est. and up from $570M YoY, average revenue per rider of $51.79, up 14% YoY, but 18.73M active riders, down from 18.94M QoQ (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Lyft Q4: revenue of $970M, vs. $940M est. and up from $570M YoY, average revenue per rider of $51.79, up 14% YoY, but 18.73M active riders, down from 18.94M QoQ — – Lyft reported fourth-quarter earnings after-the-bell on Tuesday. — Lyft reported 18.73 million active riders in the last quarter of 2021.…
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Cloud backup service Rewind raises $15M Series A led by Inovia Capital
Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: Cloud backup service Rewind raises $15M Series A led by Inovia Capital — Ottawa-based Rewind has closed a $19 million CAD ($15 million USD) Series A round of financing as it looks to capitalize on and expand its “backup-as-a-service” business. — The almost six-year-old startup has developed… Cloud backup service Rewind raises…
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Fishbrain, a Stockholm-based sport fishing app, social network, and digital marketplace with ~12M users, raises $31M from Consensus, Adrigo Asset, and SoftBank
FinSMEs: Fishbrain, a Stockholm-based sport fishing app, social network, and digital marketplace with ~12M users, raises $31M from Consensus, Adrigo Asset, and SoftBank — Fishbrain, a Stockholm, Sweden-based sport fishing app, social network, and digital marketplace, raised $31M in funding. Fishbrain, a Stockholm-based sport fishing app, social network, and digital marketplace with ~12M users, raises…
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India-based GoKwik, which helps e-commerce merchants improve conversions and lower return rates, raises a $35M Series B led by Think Investments and RTP Global
Harsh Upadhyay / Entrackr: India-based GoKwik, which helps e-commerce merchants improve conversions and lower return rates, raises a $35M Series B led by Think Investments and RTP Global — E-commerce enablement company GoKwik has raised $35 million in a Series B round led by Think Investments and RTP Global. India-based GoKwik, which helps e-commerce merchants improve…
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Slope takes in first capital with visions of being ‘Stripe for global B2B payments’
Since discovering the concept from their respective families’ agencies to create Slope, which allows agencies to provide clean, purchase now, pay later services, Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata have been running synthetic intelligence organizations. Prior to the worldwide pandemic, providers extended internet terms of 30 days to pay; however, at that scale, it is far…
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Huib Modderkolk / The Guardian: Profile of Edwin Robbe, who hacked the Netherlands’ largest telecom KPN as a teenager and cost the company €3M, before being found dead in South Korea — Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers. edwin netherlands kpn 3m south korea…
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Max A. Cherney / Protocol: Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company’s plans, business model, open-source competitor RISC-V, Intel relationship, need to invest more in R&D, and more qa arm ceo haas risc v intel qa arm ceo haas riscv intel qa arm ceo rene riscv intel qa ceo rene haas riscv intel interview…
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Helsinki-based Yousician, which claims to have 20M MAUs across its music education app and guitar tuning app, raises $28M Series B led by True Ventures helsinki based yousician 20m 28m series ventures techcrunch helsinkibased yousician 20m 28m series venturestechcrunch helsinkibased yousician maus 28m series venturestechcrunch helsinkibased yousician maus 28m true venturestechcrunch idc…