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Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks raises $36.6M Series C led by AWS with participation from GV, Accel, and others, bringing total raised to $60M (Mark Haranas/CRN)

Mark Haranas / CRN: Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks raises $36.6M Series C led by AWS with participation from GV, Accel, and others, bringing total raised to $60M  —  Growing at a triple-digit clip, Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks is attracting top- notch investors including AWS, Ericsson and Google Ventures. Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks

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Semiconductor software design startup X-Epic raises $30.6M Series A, its third round in three months as China seeks self-reliance in the semiconductor industry (Che Pan/South China Morning Post)

Che Pan / South China Morning Post: Semiconductor software design startup X-Epic raises $30.6M Series A, its third round in three months as China seeks self-reliance in the semiconductor industry  —  X-Epic, a rising star in China’s EDA industry, has raised an estimated US$60 million this year China is trying to chip away … Semiconductor

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A PCB Diary

[Gijs Gieskes] has made another eye-catching PCB wonder, this time a diary built from several circuit boards which are assembled into a book, not unlike a PC/104 system. But with [Gijs]’s system you can easily open the stack-up to access single boards without disassembling the whole thing. We don’t see brass piano hinges on PCB

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Seoul-based CHAI, whose API helps e-commerce companies accept over 20 payment options, has raised $60M Series B, following a $15M Series A in February (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Seoul-based CHAI, whose API helps e-commerce companies accept over 20 payment options, has raised $60M Series B, following a $15M Series A in February  —  Demand for contactless payments and e-commerce has grown in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic.  This is good news … Seoul-based CHAI, whose API helps e-commerce

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Former employees say Apple stood by while suppliers violated Chinese labor laws

Apple Factory Apple has been complicit in its suppliers’ violations of Chinese labor laws, according to a report from The Information. Suppliers have periodically filled their factories with temporary workers or “dispatch labor,” violating a Chinese labor law requiring no more than 10 percent of a factory’s workers be temporary employees. Much like in the

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Uber says it is rolling out Uber Connect, its same-day, no-contact local package delivery service introduced in April, to 2,400+ new cities and towns in the US (Sasha Lekach/Mashable)

Sasha Lekach / Mashable: Uber says it is rolling out Uber Connect, its same-day, no-contact local package delivery service introduced in April, to 2,400+ new cities and towns in the US  —  Back in April, Uber was scrambling to provide something for its users who were no longer ordering ride-shares because, well, many of us

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Taiwan's GlobalWafers has agreed to acquire German silicon wafer manufacturer Siltronic for ~$4.5B, creating the world's largest silicon wafer maker by revenue (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Taiwan’s GlobalWafers has agreed to acquire German silicon wafer manufacturer Siltronic for ~$4.5B, creating the world’s largest silicon wafer maker by revenue  —  Taiwan’s GlobalWafers Co. agreed to acquire German silicon wafer manufacturer Siltronic AG for about 3.75 billion euros … Taiwan's GlobalWafers has agreed to acquire German silicon wafer manufacturer

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Facebook responds to the FTC and state AGs, saying the lawsuits they've brought forth are "revisionist history" and their antitrust case is unprecedented (Jennifer Newstead/About Facebook)

Jennifer Newstead / About Facebook: Facebook responds to the FTC and state AGs, saying the lawsuits they’ve brought forth are “revisionist history” and their antitrust case is unprecedented  —  Billions of people use Facebook’s products every day.  To earn their time and attention, we compete fiercely against many other services across the world. Facebook responds

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Sony is buying anime streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.175 billion

Sony will be buying anime streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.175 billion, Sony and AT&T announced Wednesday. Specifically, Crunchyroll will become part of Sony’s Funimation, which already licenses many popular shows such as Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist, and One Piece. Now that Sony owns both Crunchyroll and Funimation, the company has tremendous power

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AT&T has agreed to sell Japanese anime streaming service Crunchyroll to Sony's Funimation Global Group for $1.18B (D. M. Moore/Polygon)

D. M. Moore / Polygon: AT&T has agreed to sell Japanese anime streaming service Crunchyroll to Sony’s Funimation Global Group for $1.18B  —  The move consolidates the anime industry in a major way  —  On Wednesday, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. announced that AT&T and WarnerMedia agreed to sell Crunchyroll to Funimation. AT&T has agreed to

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Airbnb raises $3.5B in its IPO at $68 per share, up from a previous $56-$60 range, giving it a fully diluted valuation of $47.3B (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios: Airbnb raises $3.5B in its IPO at $68 per share, up from a previous $56-$60 range, giving it a fully diluted valuation of $47.3B  —  Airbnb on Wednesday raised $3.5 billion in its IPO at a fully diluted valuation of around $47.3 billion, and will begin trading Thursday on the New

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