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Filing: Tesla has bought $1.5B worth of bitcoin for “more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash” — Tesla announced Monday that it bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin, according to a filing with the SEC. — The company said it bought the bitcoin for …
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After a flurry of tweets from Elon Musk in recent weeks, dogecoin, which launched in 2013 as a joke, has jumped in price from half a cent on Jan. 1 to ~8 cents — Cryptocurrency that started in 2013 as a joke is suddenly worth a total of more than $6 billion
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Hyundai and its affiliate Kia say they are not in talks with Apple to develop an autonomous vehicle; Hyundai shares fell ~8.4% in Seoul, while Kia dropped 14%. — - Apple's plans for own-branded EV are being intensely watched — Hyundai's new EV platform can charge cars to 80% in 18 minutes
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Review: in 200+ charging docs filed in relation to the Capitol siege, 73 reference Facebook, 24 reference YouTube, 20 mention Instagram, and 8 mention Parler — Just after the Capitol Hill riots on January 6, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook chief operating officer admitted the company's ability to enforce its own rules was “never perfect.”
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| Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics: |
Analysis: in 2020, Amazon's capital expenditure grew 69% YoY to $54B, Microsoft's grew 14% YoY to $20.6B, and Google's declined over 5% YoY to $22.3B — It is time for our annual bulletin to CAPEX obsessives (previous updates from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 as well as earlier installments).
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| Julia Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Sensor Tower data on top apps worldwide: Telegram led with 63M downloads in Jan. 2021, as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger downloads fell from Dec. 2020 — Telegram was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for January 2021 with more than 63 million installs, 3.8 times its downloads in January 2020.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Nexthink, which lets businesses monitor software performance on employee devices, raises $180M Series D led by Permira at a $1.1B valuation — Nexthink, a platform used by businesses to monitor software performance on their employees' devices, has raised $180 million in a series D round of funding led by Permira.
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Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period during which it was rapidly gathering steam — Thousands of Chinese users suddenly found themselves unable to access Clubhouse on early Monday evening as the country prepared to start the week-long Lunar New Year holiday.| Bloomberg: |
Japan's Renesas Electronics says it has agreed to acquire UK-based Dialog Semiconductor, whose clients include Apple and Samsung, for ~$5.9B — - Transaction marks latest takeover of a U.K. technology firm — Semiconductor M&A more than doubled to $144 billion last year| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Pony.ai raises $100M extension to its Series C round at a post-money valuation of $5.3B, up from $3B in Feb. 2020, bringing its total raised to $1B+ — Self-driving car startup Pony.ai today announced that it raised $100 million in an extension of its series C round.| Kevin / kwokchain: |
How Figma, which bet on collaborative product design, and Canva, which focuses on helping non-designers excel in marketing design, are succeeding against Adobe — How Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe—and winning — In 2010, Photoshop was ubiquitous.
Tweets: @gavinsbaker, @jalajboy, and @sachinrekhi
| Michael Vizard / VentureBeat: |
Vendia, which offers a serverless SaaS product to share data and associated code across multicloud environments, raises $15.5M Series A led by Canvas Ventures — Vendia revealed it has raised $15.5 million to advance development of a Vendia Share service that enables IT teams to share data and code … Sponsor Posts
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