The Economic Times: Sources: Accel and Tiger Global are in talks to sell their remaining Flipkart stakes, around 1% and 4%, respectively, to parent company Walmart for ~$1.5B — Happy 74th Republic Day! — Two early backers of Flipkart – venture fund Accel Partners and New York-based investment firm Tiger Global …
Read MoreA bug that saw users unable to watch their favorite content over an HDMI adaptor has been fixed in the latest version of iOS.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Meta pays BuzzFeed to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train creators to grow online as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022 — Partnership marks latest iteration of yearslong relationship between digital publisher and social-media giant
Read MoreIan King / Bloomberg: Lam Research, one of the three biggest US chip manufacturing equipment providers, plans to cut ~7% of its workforce to reduce expenses, or ~1,300 jobs worldwide — Lam Research Corp., one of the three biggest providers of chip-manufacturing equipment in the US, is cutting about 7% …
Read More[Hank Green] posted an interesting video about the first liquid mirror telescope from back in the 1850s. At the time, scientists were not impressed. But, these days, people are revisiting the idea. The big problem with the early telescope is that it used mercury. Mercury is really bad for people and the environment. The good
Read MoreCoinDesk: Report: South Korean prosecutors are seeking the arrest of Bithumb owner Kang Jong-Hyun, as part of a wider probe into the crypto exchange and its affiliates — Kang Jong-Hyun and his sister are under investigation for embezzlement related to tax evasion allegations against Bithumb.
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: New Jersey-based AtomicJar, which is building a cloud version of its co-founders’ open-source microservices testing tool Testcontainers, raised a $25M Series A — Working with, microservices-based development environments presents a unique set of testing challenges.
Read MoreMenghan Xiao / SC Media: Using automation, Trellix patches nearly 62K open-source projects susceptible to a Python path traversal flaw first disclosed in 2007, affecting ~350K projects — The Trellix research team said they have patched nearly 62,000 open-source projects that were susceptible to a 15-year-old path …
Read MoreBloomberg: Analysis: SoftBank’s new startup bets hit a record low in Q4 2022, with eight investment rounds totaling $2.1B; source: Vision Fund investments were below $350M — SoftBank Group Corp.’s new startup bets hit a record low last quarter as valuations continued to slide, chilling an already frosty startup winter.
Read MoreAnastassia Gliadkovskaya / Fierce Healthcare: Angle Health, a service that helps its clients’ employees navigate telehealth, behavioral, and insurance benefits, raised a $58M Series A led by Portage — Angle Health, a payer serving employers, has raised $58 million to expand to new markets. By bundling telehealth and behavioral benefits …
Read MoreIan King / Bloomberg: Lam Research, one of the three biggest US chip manufacturing equipment providers, plans to cut ~7% of its workforce to reduce expenses, or ~1,300 jobs worldwide — Lam Research Corp., one of the three biggest providers of chip-manufacturing equipment in the US, is cutting about 7% …
Read MorePhoto by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla’s long-anticipated Cybertruck won’t be seeing full volume production until 2024, Elon Musk said during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call today. During the call, Musk was asked whether the forthcoming vehicle would meet a mid-2023 production target that was set in Q2 last year. Musk cagily confirmed
Read MoreSomeone has created a pretty convincing concept for what Apple’s Reality Pro VR headset could look like.
Read MoreA new research note predicts that the iPhone 15 models will come packed with Wi-Fi 6E.
Read MoreEdward Gately / Channel Futures: North Carolina-based Zift Solutions, whose ZiftOne tool helps companies manage channel marketing, sales, and operations, raised $70M led by Investcorp — ITP’s investment will help accelerate Zift Solutions’ GTM strategy and continued international expansion.
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Elon Musk is trying to cut back on costly unsecured loans tied to his $44 billion Twitter purchase by selling $3 billion worth of Twitter shares, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. But despite what Musk has said recently about his “track
Read MoreBack in 2012, technology websites were abuzz with news of the Lytro: a camera that was going to revolutionize photography thanks to its innovative light field technology. An array of microlenses in front of the sensor let it capture a 3D image of a scene from one point, allowing the user to extract depth information
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Dell acquires Tel Aviv-based Cloudify, a platform for cloud orchestration and infrastructure automation, sources say for ~$100M; Cloudify raised less than $8M — Dell is making an acquisition to beef up its cloud services business, specifically its offerings in DevOps: the company is buying Cloudify …
Read MoreLaura Normand / The Verge This should come as no surprise, but Elon Musk doesn’t see a downside to being extremely online. Asked whether his recent tweets — spreading tawdry conspiracy theories about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, embracing COVID misinformation, mocking trans people, making groan-inducing, jokes, and exposing himself as a right-wing troll
Read MoreCredit: Amazon Samsung storage devices are famously some of the best memory expansion options on the market. They often have a price tag to match, but this Amazon sale blows that convention out of the water. While the sale lasts, you can pick up internal and external Samsung storage devices at discounts of as much
Read MoreFintech, or financial technology, is the latest and most adaptive technology used to automate and digitize the financial industry. Financial technology is helping business individuals, corporates, and large and small-scale companies to resolve their financial issues in an easy and smooth way. It is helping people in managing their financial engagements and functions. The sole
Read MorePhoto by: William B. Plowman / NBC via Getty Images West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin (D) introduced a new bill that would halt the current electric vehicle tax credit until strict new battery requirements are put in place. It’s the latest move by the conservative Democrat to limit the government’s ability to incentivize car buyers
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Read MoreLastPass has been under intense scrutiny over the last few months following multiple security breaches that included the theft of user data, but it wasn’t just LastPass. The password manager is owned by GoTo, the maker of products like GoToMyPC, Hamachi, and more. The parent company now confirms that it, too, was targeted in the
Read MoreAxios: Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban — – “We’ve always believed that Americans should be able to hear from the people who want to lead the country,” Clegg told Axios.
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