Waymo approved to start testing autonomous vehicles at San Francisco International Airport: Waymo has spent years locked in back-and-forth negotiations with SFO, the biggest airport serving its home base of Silicon Valley. Read More |
Andrew Yang took inspiration from Mark Cuban for his budget cell carrier Noble Mobile: "I'm as guilty of doomscrolling as the next person, but knowing that doomscrolling is actually costing me money makes me feel dumb," Yang told TechCrunch. Read More |
Figure reaches $39B valuation in latest funding round: Figure raised more than $1 billion in a Series C round led by Parkway Venture Capital in addition to numerous other investors. Read More |
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When the pre-IPO investors behind Uber and eBay back a new company, people take note. That's the case with Pacaso. Founded by a former Zillow exec, Pacaso brings co-ownership to the $1.3T vacation home market, already making $110M+ in gross profit in under 5 years. They even reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO. Invest in Pacaso by the 9/18 deadline.
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| Salesforce launches 'Missionforce,' a national security-focused business unit: Salesforce's Missionforce will help modernize national defense workflows across such areas as personnel, logistics, and decision-making. Read More |
Jack Altman raised a new $275M early-stage fund in a mere week : Altman's first fund, raised in early 2024, was $150 million. So this is a big step up, too. Read More |
What to know about TikTok's uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it: TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese government. Earlier this year, the app experienced a temporary outage in the U.S. that left millions of users in suspense before it was quickly restored. TikTok returned to the App Store and Google Play Store in February. A number of investors are competing for the opportunity to purchase the app, and if a deal were to go through, the platform's U.S. business could have its valuation soar to upward of $60 billion, as estimated by CFRA Research's senior vice president, Angelo Zino. Following extensive discussions and after Trump extended the TikTok ban deadline for the fourth time, it seems that progress has been made. This week, a "framework" deal was reportedly established between the U.S. and China, with new information revealed indicating that a consortium of investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz, may oversee TikTok's U.S. operations. TikTok ban: What's happened so far To fully understand this high-stakes drama, we'll first revisit the timeline of TikTok's tumultuous relationship with the U.S. government, which resulted in various legal battles and negotiations. The drama first began in August 2020, when Trump signed an executive order to ban transactions with parent company ByteDance. A month later, Trump's administration sought to force a sale of TikTok's U.S. operations to a U.S.-based company. The leading contenders included Microsoft, Oracle, and Read More |
YouTube rolls out Studio updates, 'likeness' detection, lip-synced dubs, creator collabs, and more: YouTube launches a handful of updates for creators, including lip-syncing features for dubbed videos, likeness detection, collabs, an AI chatbot, and more. Read More |
YouTube to use AI to help podcasters promote themselves with clips and Shorts: YouTube teases new AI-powered tools for turning podcasts into video clips, even if they're audio-only. Read More |
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YouTube Live gets a major update, introduces dual-format streaming, minigames, and more: The company says this is the most significant update to Live it has ever introduced, as the livestreaming market continues to grow and competition with TikTok Live heats up. Read More |
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