Month: September 2021

Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, raises $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, its third fundraising round in 2021 (Greg Kumparak/TechCrunch)

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, raises $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, its third fundraising round in 2021  —  Whatnot, a live streaming shopping platform for collectors to buy and sell things like rare Pokémon cards and Funko Pops …

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For the love of the loot: Blockchain, the metaverse and gaming’s blind spot

Jonathan Stringfield Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Stringfield, PhD, is VP and Global Head of Business Marketing, Measurement and Insights at Activision Blizzard Media and Esports. The speed at which gaming has proliferated is matched only by the pace of new buzzwords inundating the ecosystem. Marketers and decision makers, already suffering from FOMO about opportunities

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Prehistoric Winged Lizard Unearthed in Chilean Desert

Rhamphorhynchus phyllurus. (Image: Ryan Somma/FunkMonk, CC BY-SA 2.0)Pterosaurs are an interesting bunch. They are the first vertebrates that took flight, and they share a number of traits with birds despite not being directly related to them. Pterosaurs aren’t actually dinosaurs, despite the fact that dinosaurs and pterosaurs had a large temporal overlap. Both they and

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Tiger’s bullish robotic investments

On Tuesday, Tiger Global led not one but two big funding rounds, announcing its role in a $26 million Series A for Ambi and an additional $50 million for Locus Robotics. The firm has been so active in investing of late, that neither one of these companies cracked Alex’s coveted “Today’s Tiger round” in our

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Fiberplane nabs € 7.5M seed to bring Google Docs-like collaboration to incident response

Fiberplane, an Amsterdam-based early stage startup that is building collaborative notebooks for SREs (site reliability engineers)  to collaborate around an incident in a similar manner to group editing in a Google Doc, announced a ​​€ 7.5M (approximately $8.8 million USD) seed round today. The round was co-led by Crane Venture Partners and Notion Capital with

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Continuous Resin Printer Shows The Speed

Redditor [No-Championship-8520] aka [Eric Potempa] has come up with an interesting DIY take on the Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP) process currently owned and developed by Carbon Inc. The usual resin 3D printer you may be familiar with is quite a simple machine. The machine has only one axis, which is the vertically moving build

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Facebook says it will use the same tactics that it uses to remove bot networks to target real-user accounts engaging in tactics like mass reporting (Reuters)

Reuters: Facebook says it will use the same tactics that it uses to remove bot networks to target real-user accounts engaging in tactics like mass reporting  —  Facebook (FB.O) is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities …

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Elodie Games, which makes cross-play, co-op games that run on PCs, mobile devices, and consoles, raises $32.5M Series A led by Galaxy Interactive and a16z (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Elodie Games, which makes cross-play, co-op games that run on PCs, mobile devices, and consoles, raises $32.5M Series A led by Galaxy Interactive and a16z  —  A new GamesBeat event is around the corner!  Learn more about what comes next.  —  Elodie Games has raised $32.5 million …

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Microsoft Office 2021 will launch on October 5th

Microsoft is launching its next perpetual version of Microsoft Office for commercial customers today, and promising an Office 2021 consumer release on October 5th. Microsoft Office Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) for Windows and Mac will be available for commercial and government users today, providing a locked-in time release of Office that doesn’t require a

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