Techmeme: Inside Helsinki's Slush 2024, a startup event described as a mix of TED Talks, Eurovision, and Shark Tank, attended by ~13K people, with LPs up 46% YoY to 350+ (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:

Inside Helsinki's Slush 2024, a startup event described as a mix of TED Talks, Eurovision, and Shark Tank, attended by ~13K people, with LPs up 46% YoY to 350+ — The saunas were hot and the money was flowing at Slush, which featured demos, DJs and a growing emphasis on defense technology.

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Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: BYD's contract-manufacturing arm, which has 10K+ engineers and ~100K employees dedicated to the Apple's supply chain, now assembles 30%+ of all iPads — BYD has grown into a top iPad assembler and has put around 100,000 people to work for Tim Cook's company

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Jie Ye-eun / The Korea Herald:

South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions completes its merger with Sapeon Korea, SK Telecom's AI chip subsidiary; Rebellions values the merged entity at ~$929M — Rebellions CEO Park Sung-hyun (Rebellions) — Artificial intelligence startup Rebellions said Monday that it has completed …

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Bloomberg:

Q&A with Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark on Nokia's mobile phone failure, moving from mobile and fixed networks into data centers and defense, fine-tuning 5G, and more — Pekka Lundmark sees opportunities for the Finnish communications company to grow in defense and data centers.

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