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Sources: Microsoft is in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B; one source says Discord is more likely to go public than sell itself — Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire Discord Inc., a video-game chat community, for more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Sources: Nintendo will use new Nvidia graphics chip in its 2021 Switch upgrade, helping the console deliver 4K on TVs via Nvidia's DLSS — - The Nvidia system-on-chip will also add memory and CPU upgrade — Nintendo's console refresh targeting year-end shopping season
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
OnePlus debuts 6.55" OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9R and 6.7" OnePlus 9 Pro, all with 120Hz displays, Android 11, on-screen fingerprint sensors, and 128GB base storage — Today OnePlus is launching their new 2021 line-up of flagship devices, the new OnePlus 9 series.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook docs show how it moderates users in repressive regimes, including a list of “recognized crimes” and allowing praise for mass killers in some contexts — Exclusive: users are allowed to praise mass killers and ‘violent non-state actors’ in certain situations
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The controversies around Substack miss the point that it is just a tool for sovereign writers, who are in control as they are paid directly by subscribers — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — There has been a bit of controversy around Substack over the last week …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook announces F8 Refresh on June 2, a single-day, virtual-only conference for developers without a Mark Zuckerberg keynote — After a few twists and turns and then ultimately cancelling its F8 developer conference last year over Covid-19 concerns, Facebook today announced a return …
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| João Carrasqueira / Neowin: |
Microsoft, Google, and others partner to improve browser compatibility, focusing on five areas, including CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, and CSS sticky positioning — Google and Microsoft have announced that they're joining forces with other companies such as Igalia, as well as the “broader web community” …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Orca Security, which provides tools for protecting cloud-based assets, raises $210M Series C led by CapitalG and Redpoint Ventures at a $1.2B valuation — Orca Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that offers an agent-less security platform for protecting cloud-based assets …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live as Xbox network and says the change is to distinguish the online service from Xbox Live Gold membership — Xbox network is the future — Microsoft is rebranding Xbox Live to Xbox network. Instances of the new branding started appearing in the Xbox dashboard recently …
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| Joe Light / Bloomberg: |
Boston Fed officials and MIT researchers, who have been developing prototypes for a digital dollar platform, plan to unveil their research as soon as July — - Boston Fed, MIT researchers plan to unveil platform work soon — Project could threaten banks, credit cards, cryptocurrencies| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Biden announces his intent to nominate Lina Khan, a legal scholar and leading voice in the growing tech antitrust movement, to serve as an FTC commissioner — Khan brought Big Tech scrutiny mainstream — President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Lina Khan …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
goPuff, which charges a flat $1.95 fee to deliver products in under 30 minutes in 650+ US cities, raises $1.15B at an $8.9B valuation, up from $3.9B in October — Last fall, delivery startup goPuff made a big splash by raising $380 million in funding and acquiring West Coast beverage retailer BevMo shortly afterwards.| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Lattice, which helps companies track, reward, and set goals in the workplace, raises $60M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation, up from $450M last year — - Human resources tech startup raises $60 million in new funds — CEO says it helps fix the dreaded employee performance review
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Telegram says it has raised $1B+ in debt financing, including $150M from Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners and state fund Mubadala via pre-IPO convertible bonds — Update: Telegram has now announced it's pulled in over $1BN in debt financing by selling bonds. — Founder Pavel Durov put … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Niantic announces a new partnership with Nintendo to develop mobile games built on Niantic's AR tech, starting with a game based on Nintendo's Pikmin franchise — Niantic and Nintendo announced a new partnership — Niantic, developer of the smash hit Pokémon Go, has announced a new partnership with Nintendo.
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| Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: |
Danish customer review service Trustpilot raises £47M during a London IPO, as shareholders raised £427M, and the company is now valued at over £1B — - Danish company's shares rise as much as 16% in early trading — Trustpilot is first European firm to list in U.K. this year
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Aiven, which provides managed open source data technologies, raises $100M Series C at an $800M valuation — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Aiven, a Finnish company that provides managed open source data technologies …
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Coaching and mental health startup BetterUp says Prince Harry has joined as chief impact officer — The Duke of Sussex is going to work for the unicorn employee coaching and mental health startup in his latest foray into business — No longer a working member of the royal family …
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Analysis of 3,100 sites shows that hospitals are using code to hide pages containing pricing data from being crawled by search engines, violating US federal law — Webpages for hundreds of hospitals require users to click through to find prices, undermining federal transparency rule, Journal analysis shows
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| Rand Fishkin / SparkToro: |
SimilarWeb: in 2020, ~65% of Google searches ended without a click, up from ~50% in June 2019; mobile searches are far more likely to end without a click — In August of 2019, I published research from now-defunct clickstream data provider, Jumpshot, showing that 50.33% of all Google searches ended without …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Dataminr, which analyzes public data in real-time, raises $475M at a post-money valuation of $4.1B, bringing its total raised to $1.05B+ — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in AI …
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AR pioneer Blippar is back with $5M in pre-Series A funding and a B2B model focused on its Blippbuilder service; it has trimmed its headcount from 340 to 30 — Augmented Reality pioneer Blippar - which has had a tortuous history after early investors pulled out and the company had to scramble … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Stock trading app Freetrade, which has a £9.99/month tier with more order types, raises $69M Series B led by Left Lane Capital at a $366M post-money valuation — U.K. challenger stockbroker Freetrade has raised a $69 million Series B round led by Left Lane Capital.Sponsor Posts
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