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    • Roblox, an MMO game popular with kids, says it now has 90M MAUs, up from 70M last fall, following international expansion and support for French and German (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Roblox, an MMO game popular with kids, says it now has 90M MAUs, up from 70M last fall, following international expansion and support for French and German  —  Kids gaming platform Roblox, most recently valued at over $2.5 billion, has reached a new milestone of 90 million monthly active users, the

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    Autodesk Fusion 360 Hack Chat

    Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the Autodesk Fusion 360 Hack Chat! Most of us have a collection of tools that we use for the various mechanical, electronic, and manufacturing tasks we face daily. But if you were asked to name one tool that stretches across all these spaces, Autodesk Fusion 360 would certainly

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    • Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012 which says it has 12,000 customers, raises $150M Series B from Summit Partners (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

    Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012 which says it has 12,000 customers, raises $150M Series B from Summit Partners  —  Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012, went about building its email marketing business the old fashioned way. Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in

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    • Upstart, a peer-to-peer lending platform which uses AI to make credit decisions and to eliminate fraud, raises $50M Series D, bringing the total raised to $160M (Manish Singh/VentureBeat)

    Manish Singh / VentureBeat: Upstart, a peer-to-peer lending platform which uses AI to make credit decisions and to eliminate fraud, raises $50M Series D, bringing the total raised to $160M  —  Upstart, a startup founded by ex-Googlers that uses AI to identify who should get a loan and of what size, said today it has

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    • Sources: Monzo is close to raising £100M from Y Combinator, which would give the UK-based digital bank a pre-money valuation of £2B, up from £1B in October (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)

    Steve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Sources: Monzo is close to raising £100M from Y Combinator, which would give the UK-based digital bank a pre-money valuation of £2B, up from £1B in October  —  Just 5 months after announcing £85 million in Series E funding, Monzo is already gearing up to raise additional funding … Sources: Monzo

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    Brain Hacking with Entrainment

    Can you electronically enhance your brain? I’m not talking about surgically turning into a Borg. But are there electronic methods that can improve various functions of your brain? Fans of brainwave entrainment say yes. There was an old recruiting ad for electrical engineers that started with the headline: The best electronic brains are still human.

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    • Viber launches Viber Local Number, a new $4.99/month subscription service to give users a phone number that anyone can call or text, in the US, UK, and Canada (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

    Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Viber launches Viber Local Number, a new $4.99/month subscription service to give users a phone number that anyone can call or text, in the US, UK, and Canada  —  Viber, the chat and messaging app acquired by Japanese ecommerce titan Rakuten for $900 million five years ago … Viber launches Viber

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    • Bitglass, which allows organizations to extend their security policies beyond their own data centers, raises $70M Series D led by Quadrille Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

    Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Bitglass, which allows organizations to extend their security policies beyond their own data centers, raises $70M Series D led by Quadrille Capital  —  Cloud access security broker Bitglass Inc. is in a confident mood after landing a $70 million round of financing. Bitglass, which allows organizations to extend their security policies

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