Last summer, Jeeves was participating in Y Combinator’s summer batch as a fledgling fintech. This June, the startup emerged from stealth with $31 million in equity and $100 million in debt financing. Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million
Read MoreBotify has raised a $55 million Series C funding round led by InfraVia Growth with Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund also participating. The company has created a search engine optimization (SEO) platform so that your content is better indexed and appears more often in search results. Existing investors Eurazeo and Ventech are also investing in the
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung has announced new sizes for some of its best TVs, giving more choices to consumers who want the option of either a small or massive flagship TV. Samsung has added 43-inch and 98-inch sizes to its QN90A lineup of “Neo QLED” 4K TVs and an 85-inch option
Read MoreAmanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Callin, a social audio app founded by David Sacks that offers tools for turning live recordings into podcasts, raises $12M Series A led by Sequoia and others — As live audio becomes more and more popular, co-founders David Sacks (former COO of PayPal and CEO of Yammer) …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twitter is planning new features to give people more privacy options, according to Bloomberg. The social network’s plans reportedly include the option to archive old tweets so they’re not visible to other users after a given period of time (like 30, 60, or 90 days or a
Read MoreMicrosoft has made available its Productivity Power Tools extensions for its upcoming Visual Studio 2022 IDE, providing capabilities ranging from HTML copying to error message viewing. Available for download from the Visual Studio Marketplace, the Productivity Power Tools (PPT) for Visual Studio 2022 pack is a suite of extensions intended to improve overall productivity. Visual
Read MoreCredit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority This week, there have been many reports of a new Google Clock app bug that has caused set alarms not to go off as scheduled. Those same reports claim that the usual troubleshooting methods don’t appear to fix this problem. This has led to many new one-star reviews of
Read MoreJan Thijs The first trailer for The Wheel of Time TV series has arrived, giving an early look at Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of Robert Jordan’s epic 14-book fantasy series ahead of its November 19th release date on Amazon Prime Video. The trailer sets the stage for the series, establishing some of the basic tenets of
Read MoreTaylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Roblox adds voice chat, initially in some games as “spatial audio” where players chat with others around them, and plans a Discord-like persistent voice chat — As one the frontrunners in the race to build the metaverse, Roblox is thinking ahead to what virtual worlds really need.
Read MoreKris Holt Contributor Share on Twitter Kris Holt is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Microsoft will bring cloud gaming to Xbox consoles this holiday season Netflix’s live-action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ series arrives on November 19th Local TV streaming service Locast has closed up shop, at least for the time being. It
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Botify, which offers AI-powered SEO tools, raises $55M Series C led by InfraVia Growth, bringing total funding to $82M — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Botify, provider of search engine optimization tools …
Read MoreThe FBI has warned that the Chinese government is using both in-person and digital techniques to intimidate, silence and harass U.S.-based Uyghur Muslims. The Chinese government has long been accused of human rights abuses over its treatment of the Uyghur population and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in China’s Xinjiang region. More than a million
Read MoreLiquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a combustion chamber, creating a mixture of hot gases at high pressure that very much wish to leave out the back of the rocket,
Read MoreSay goodbye to biceps and hello to raw brain power. What you need to know Big Brain Academy is a game series that tasks players with solving problems to determine their brain power. A new game is coming to Nintendo Switch, with local and online functionality. The game will release exclusively on Nintendo Switch on
Read MoreIf the past 18 months is any indication, the nature of the workplace is changing. And while Box and Zoom already have integrations together, it makes sense for them to continue to work more closely. Their newest collaboration is the Box app for Zoom, a new type of in-product integration that allows users to bring
Read MorePanorama Education, which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic. Existing backers Owl Ventures, Emerson Collective, Uncork Capital, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Tao Capital Partners also participated in the financing, which brings the Boston-based company’s total raised since
Read MoreIgor Bonifacic Contributor Igor Bonifacic is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor You can now buy the $299 Oculus Quest 2 with 128GB of storage Peloton’s Android app hints at long-rumored rowing machine Add the Roadster to the list of delayed Tesla vehicles. On Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk said the performance
Read MoreYou pretty much always know what to expect from a Roland Emmerich movie: namely, that a good chunk of the planet is going to be destroyed. The director of films like 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow is now taking that to its logical extreme with Moonfall, a movie about the Moon… falling. According to
Read MoreMariella Moon Contributor Mariella Moon is an associate editor at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Apple’s rumored iPhone satellite support may be for emergency calls and messages Old Amazon Kindle devices will soon lose 3G access The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ordered Tesla to hand over detailed Autopilot data by October
Read MoreLast week, Kathryn Zealand shared some insight on the eve of Women’s Equality Day. The post highlighted an issue that’s been apparent to everyone in and around the robotics industry: there’s a massive gender gap. It’s something we try to be mindful of, particularly when programming events like TC Sessions: Robotics. Zealand cites some pretty
Read MoreDan Primack / Axios: Solv, a provider of same-day and next-day appointment software for health care providers, raises $45M Series C co-led by Acrew Capital and Corner Ventures — Solv, a provider of same-day and next-day appointment software for health care providers, tells Axios that it’s raised $45 million in new venture capital funding.
Read MoreEurope’s top court has dealt another blow to ‘zero rating’ — ruling for a second time that the controversial carrier practice goes against the European Union’s rules on open Internet access. ‘Zero rating’ refers to commercial offers that can be made by mobile network operators to entice customers by excluding the data consumption of certain
Read MoreIf you are a certain age, you might recall the People’s Computing Company (PCC) from the 1970s. It was not really a company, but rather a folksy computer newsletter in the visual style of the times. In the first issue, published in October 1972, founders Dennis Allison, Bob Albrecht and George Firedrake explained their reasons for starting
Read MoreBlu continues on its quest to deliver gaming phones in a highly affordable package. At $249, the Blu G91 Pro looks set to offer a lot of value for budget mobile gamers, but it’s missing some features you’d expect from a traditional gaming phone. Can Blu make up for it with a competitive price-performance ratio
Read MoreLocast has announced that it is suspending its TV streaming service starting today, following a court ruling earlier this week in a lawsuit from ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, which jointly sued the nonprofit service shortly after it launched. “As a non-profit, Locast was designed from the very beginning to operate in accordance with the
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