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Fika Ventures nearly triples its assets under management: “It’s definitely a crazy time”

Fika Ventures is a five-year-old, L.A.-based seed stage fund that has been funding mostly business-to-business startups, as well as fintech companies and a sprinkling of healthcare IT startups — as long as they don’t involve hardware or FDA approval. The firm’s investors apparently think it’s doing a decent job. After raising $41 million for its

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ET Deals: Dell XPS 13 9305 13.3-Inch Intel Core i7 Laptop for $985, Dell G15 Intel Core i5 Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti Gaming Laptop for $749

Today you can get a compact 13.3-inch Dell laptop with a Core i7 processor, a 1080p touchscreen display and a sleek aluminum chassis marked down to just $985.59. Dell XPS 13 9300 Intel Core i7-1165G7 13.3-Inch 1080p Touchscreen Laptop w/ Intel Iris Xe Graphics, 16GB LPDDR4x RAM and 1TB M.2 SSD for $985.59 from Dell

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Google Nest Doorbell review: Catching up to the competition

Google’s first foray into smart doorbells started with the Nest Hello in 2018. Unfortunately, that doorbell had a small audience due to its high price and huge limitation of only working with existing wired doorbell systems. This year, though, the company is finally offering a totally wireless solution with the Google Nest Doorbell. Without a

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T-Mobile has been crowned the fastest network in the U.S. in new report

What you need to know PCMag has crowned T-Mobile as the fastest carrier in the United States for the first time. The “Uncarrier” beat out AT&T and Verizon in the outlet’s annual network test. That Sprint merger really paid off. T-Mobile has beat out AT&T and Verizon to become America’s fastest mobile network. In the

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Researchers say that, before Trump’s ban, his tweets that had fact-check labels spread further on Twitter than those that lacked them (Jessica Guynn/USA Today)

Jessica Guynn / USA Today: Researchers say that, before Trump’s ban, his tweets that had fact-check labels spread further on Twitter than those that lacked them  —  Twitter blocked and labeled some Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud in the run-up and aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.

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Here are all the Game Pass games Xbox showed off at Gamescom 2021

Paradox Games Gamescom doesn’t officially start until Wednesday, but Xbox got a head start on the festivities with an announcement of all the new games coming to Xbox Game Pass. Xbox has been laser focused on its subscription platform. During E3 2021, Microsoft announced a ton of new games including all the forthcoming Microsoft Studios

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amiibo outlived competitors that spawned them and will continue to do so

There are currently 186 amiibo figures, plus hundreds of amiibo cards. Nintendo’s amiibo figures are one of the most Nintendo things out there with the unique ability for toys to interact with video games. Yet, they weren’t even Nintendo’s original idea. The Japanese gaming company only produced them in response to the toys-to-life sensation created

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: Darren Murph Head of Remote at GitLab Part II

Hi, everyone! Thank you for the great response to our Distinguished Leader Series!  Here’s the second part of my talk with GitLab’s Head of Remote, Darren Murph.  If you missed part 1 of this conversation where we dig into how GitLab runs a multi-billion dollar remote-first company — you can find it here.  Jonathan Siddharth:

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EA is opening the patents for some of its accessibility tech

A player uses the Ping System in Apex Legends to alert their team of the presence of a “Shield Battery”. | Image: Electronic Arts Electronic Arts is pledging to open the patents for some of its accessibility-related tech, including the much-celebrated Apex Legends ping system, the company announced today. EA says it won’t file infringement

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Walmart is launching a new white label delivery service

Image: Walmart Walmart plans to offer its logistics and delivery services to other companies as part of a new last-mile delivery business, the company announced on Monday. The service, called Walmart GoLocal, hopes to serve as a white label delivery offering for businesses big and small, and yet another way for Walmart to try to

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Samsung notifying buyers that their new foldables and watches will be very late

Credit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Some people who pre-ordered the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and other new devices are getting emails notifying them of shipping delays. It looks like many will need to wait until September. Samsung’s email cites higher-than-expected demand as the reason. Pre-orders for the new slate of Samsung devices opened

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Flockjay cuts at least half of its workforce as it pivots away from bootcamps into B2B SaaS

Flockjay, a bootcamp startup that helps laid off people and job seekers break into tech, cut half of its own employees amid a broader pivot to a B2B SaaS platform, TechCrunch has learned from sources close to the company. The layoffs impacted every nontechnical team at Flockjay, including admission advisers, biz ops and development, partnerships,

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FBI says a man phished thousands of iCloud accounts via an email scam where he impersonated customer support, stealing 620K photos and 9K videos until mid-2018 (Michael Finnegan/Los Angeles Times)

Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times: FBI says a man phished thousands of iCloud accounts via an email scam where he impersonated customer support, stealing 620K photos and 9K videos until mid-2018  —  A Los Angeles County man broke into thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and collected more than 620,000 private photos and videos …

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Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies

Earlier today, spend management startup Ramp said it has raised a $300 million Series C that valued it at $3.9 billion. It also said it was acquiring Buyer, a “negotiation-as-a-service” platform that it believes will help customers save money on purchases and SaaS products. The round and deal were announced just a week after competitor

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You can now buy the $299 Oculus Quest 2 with 128GB of storage

Following its announcement late last month, Facebook’s new 128GB model of the Oculus Quest 2 is now available to buy. You can purchase the VR headset from the company’s website for the same $299 price as the previous 64GB base model. “Long story short? We’ve created this 128GB model so that players can easily store

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ForgeRock files for IPO as identity and access management business grows

ForgeRock filed its form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this morning as the identity management provider takes the next step toward its IPO. The company did not provide initial pricing for its shares, which will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FORG. The IPO is being led by

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Linktree partners with PayPal to allow users globally to accept direct payments

Linktree, the popular “link in bio” service with more than 16 million users, is partnering with PayPal to expand its recently launched “Commerce Links” tools for direct payment on Linktree globally. The Melbourne-based startup says creators in over 200 countries where PayPal operates can now accept payments through the transaction tools. Launched in March, Commerce

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Digital locker app Movies Anywhere adds A.I.-powered lists to organize your library

Movies Anywhere, an app that allows you to centralize your digital movie collection from across services, is rolling out a new feature that will help you make better sense of your growing library. The company today introduced an A.I.-powered feature called “My Lists,” which automatically groups movies together based on any number of factors —

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Some are raising concerns about harmful uses of “netflow data”, used to map traffic’s flow across networks and that some ISPs allow to be sold to third parties (Joseph Cox/VICE)

Joseph Cox / VICE: Some are raising concerns about harmful uses of “netflow data”, used to map traffic’s flow across networks and that some ISPs allow to be sold to third parties  —  ISPs are quietly distributing “netflow” data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs.  —  Joseph Cox

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