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Nvidia beats with record Q3 revenue of $7.1B vs. $6.82B estimated, up 50% YoY, Gaming revenue of $3.22B, up 42%, and Data Center revenue of $2.94B, up 55% — Nvidia (NVDA) reported its Q3 earnings after the bell on Wednesday beating analysts' predictions on the top and bottom line as revenue jumped 50% year-over-year.
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Paytm falls ~20% in its trading debut in India, giving it a market valuation of $14.9B, after raising $2.5B in its IPO — A decade ago, Vijay Shekhar Sharma flew to Hong Kong to attend an All Things D conference. At the event, he watched Silicon Valley executives Jack Dorsey and Brian Chesky talk about the firms they were building.
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Apple announces Self Service Repair, a program starting next year that will publish repair manuals, let customers buy parts and tools, and more — The tech giant says it will publish repair manuals and allow everyday customers to buy the same parts and tools certified technicians and repair shops use.
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Instagram says it is shutting down its standalone mobile messaging app Threads by December 31 — Instagram's standalone messaging app Threads is shutting down. The app will no longer be supported by the end of December 2021, the company confirmed to TechCrunch after reports began circulating …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Cher Scarlett, a leader of #AppleToo, is leaving Apple and will withdraw her NLRB complaint after reaching a settlement — Cher Scarlett, an Apple Inc. employee who created a protest movement within the company over pay transparency and other workplace issues, is leaving the iPhone maker after reaching a settlement.
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A group of shareholders owning less than 1% of Activision Blizzard calls for CEO Bobby Kotick and two of its longest serving board members to resign — A day after Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout and called for the resignation of CEO Bobby Kotick and several other executives … | Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
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Spotify expands Podcast Subscriptions globally with 20 price points from $0.50 to $150 and will let creators download subscribers' contact info — Just a few months after launching support for podcast subscriptions to U.S. creators, Spotify today is making the service available to creators in global markets.
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Apple releases iOS 15.1.1 to solve an issue with dropped calls on iPhone 12 and 13 models — iOS 15.1.1 promises improvements to the smartphones' phone — A new iOS update is starting to hit phones — no, not the seemingly feature-packed iOS 15.2, but iOS 15.1.1, which Apple says will solve an issue with calls dropping.
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Marketing management software startup Braze jumps 44% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $520M in its IPO, at an $8.4B valuation — - CEO credits first-day gain of 44% to roadshow going well — Braze reaches diluted value of more than $9.6 billion — Customer engagement software … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Airwallex, a payments platform for international purchases, raises $100M led by Lone Pine Capital at a $5.5B valuation, adding to its September $200M Series E — E-commerce and other online businesses are becoming increasingly global in their operations and customer bases …
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| Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at some of the practical issues faced by ConstitutionDAO if they win the auction, such as how to pay, ownership, who picks it up, and where to display it — A group of friends in the cryptocurrency world are repurposing digital tools to make a run at a rare analog document up for auction Thursday
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Q&A with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on plans for sector-specific products, such as for healthcare or telecoms, a shift from Jassy's one-size-fits-all approach — In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Adam Selipsky says a new push to build targeted cloud services for the healthcare … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Grammarly, which helps users improve their writing with its AI assistant, raises $200M at a $13B valuation — Grammarly, the popular auto-editing tool for writing, has raised $200 million in funding at a $13 billion valuation from new investors including Baillie Gifford and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, among others.| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Australia-based Practice Ignition, which offers client engagement and commerce services for businesses, raises a $50M Series C led by JMI Equity — Practice ignition, an Australia-based client engagement and commerce platform for professional service businesses, has raised $50 million … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A: Brian Chesky on how he restructured Airbnb during the pandemic, running a public company, crypto, the metaverse, working with Jony Ive's LoveFrom, and more — Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky prides himself on thinking very differently than other CEOs, and his answers to the Decoder questions … | Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
The US DOJ will sell $56M worth of cryptocurrency it seized as part of the BitConnect fraud case; victims can apply to be reimbursed — - The U.S. Justice Department will sell off $56 million worth of cryptocurrency it seized as part of a massive Ponzi scheme case against a man who promoted the crypto lending program BitConnect.
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| Jeff Rumage / Built In Austin: |
Ontic, whose software helps companies identify, assess, and manage physical security threats, raises a $40M Series B led by JMI Equity — Ontic announced Tuesday that it has raised $40 million to scale its protective intelligence software that helps companies identify, assess and manage physical security threats.
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| Heather Landi / FierceHealthcare: |
Ribbon Health, which offers an API data platform for health care companies, raises a $43.5M Series B led by General Catalyst with a16z and others participating — Ribbon Health is tackling the costly “doctor data” problem that stands in the way of patients having a seamless journey to the right care.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Alluxio, which develops data orchestration software for on-premises, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments, raises a $50M Series C from a16z and others — San Mateo, California-based Alluxio, a data orchestration platform, today announced that it raised $50 million …
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TikTok releases commissioned research into harmful challenges and hoaxes, which often go viral on TikTok, and adds a Safety Center section about such content — TikTok has developed a bad reputation for hosting dangerous viral “challenges” on its app, which at their worst …
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