(Dapper Labs photo) New financing: Dapper Labs raised $ 305 million on a reported valuation of $ 2.6 billion. The Vancouver, BC startup supports NBA Top Shot, a popular NFT-based digital trading card game that has sales of more than $ 467 million in the past five months. Top shot: Dapper is partnering with the … Read more
IBM has installed some of its own Quantum System One machines around the world in the past few years. Today, IBM announced its first US private sector deployment thanks to a new ten year partnership with the Cleveland Clinic. Not only is this IBM’s first US installation of one of its quantum computers outside of … Read more
In the past few years, distance runners wearing Nike’s Vaporfly and Alphafly shoes have seen some incredible feats, but now Asics is fighting back with its own $ 250 thick-soled runners. These shoes, known as Metaspeed Sky and Metaspeed Edge, are said to have been “scientifically designed for a specific running style”. While most racing … Read more
T-Mobile will make Google Messages its standard messaging app for customers on Android devices, provide new backup and storage options via the Google One cloud service, offer an expanded range of Google Pixel devices and YouTube TV as the standard service for Premium -Live introduce television as part of an expanded partnership. This is a … Read more
EQT Ventures, a Europe-based investment firm that has raised over EUR 1.2 billion (US $ 1.4 billion), announced it has promoted Laura Yao to partner. At the same time, the company announced that it had recently hired Anne Raimondi, former SVP of Operations at Zendesk, as an operational partner. The company is based in Stockholm … Read more
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A rendering of the Ever Given container ship, which is stuck in the Suez Canal, is shown in a “Microsoft Flight Simulator” video released on TikTok. (TikTok screenshot via @donut_enforcement) Nothing like a couple of current events prying into your video game. The saga of a container ship that has been stuck in the Suez … Read more
With the closing of its latest mutual fund, Norrsken VC is taking an unprecedented step to tie partner compensation to the positive changes the company’s portfolio companies are making around the world – and not just to their financial returns. The company, which published its 2020 Impact Assessment last week, has invested in companies that … Read more
COVID-19 vaccination records have become a practical reality in the United States. As USA Today reports, New York State has introduced an Excelsior digital passport that residents can use to prove they’ve been vaccinated or recently tested negative for infection. You can use your phone’s virtual wallet (on Android or iOS) or a printout to … Read more
Thousands of people take part in a Black Lives Matter protest march in Seattle in June. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) When Kim Vu joined fintech startup Remitly two years ago as the director of diversity and inclusion, she spent hours doing numbers manually and gaining insights into the teams that are spread across eight … Read more