VerSe Innovation, the parent company of popular news and entertainment app Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, announced Monday that it had received over $ 100 million in a Series H funding round from Qatar Investment Authority and Glade Brook Capital Partners has collected. The announcement follows another investment of over $ 100 million that … Read more
While mobile money apps have been slow to gain acceptance in the US, they’ve taken other nations like Sweden, China and especially Kenya by storm, enabling people for whom conventional banking has remained out of reach new ways to send, receive and invest their hard-earned cash. In Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution, … Read more
Check out the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of January 31, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates in your inbox every Sunday by subscribing to our weekly GeekWire email newsletter. The most popular stories on GeekWire Jeff Bezos will … Read more
We crawled in An abandoned school bus that drove through shabby corridors avoided fleeting thunderstorms and wandered the empty streets of Chinatown until late at night. I couldn’t have been happier for two weeks of summer. New York City was closed. I had been quarantined in my dirty apartment, discouraged and restless. I really wanted … Read more
All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team independently of our parent company. Some of our stories contain affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may receive an affiliate commission. The post-CES period can be slow for technical reviews, but this week we got to testing updated … Read more
Steven Halliwell, Promethean Chief Product Officer, with his family in Carlsbad, California (photo courtesy of the Halliwell family) Steven Halliwell, Promethean’s chief product officer, calls himself a change agent. In his current role during the COVID-19 pandemic, this has meant pushing for new approaches internally and with customers. Halliwell joined Promethean in 2017 and joined … Read more
The SPAC craze continues unabated, and at times new SPACs are filed with the SEC almost every hour. SoftBank, the Japanese telecommunications conglomerate that also manages the gigantic Vision Fund and its successor, doesn’t want to be left out. Two consecutive SPAC registrations were filed yesterday for two new blank check companies. SVF Investment Corp … Read more
If you’ve heard of simulation theory – the idea that our entire universe could run in an extra-dimensional computer – there’s a good chance you learned about it from a high-profile believer like Elon Musk. But how would the average person, someone whose influence does not depend on provocative philosophizing in the dormitory, accept this? … Read more
Claude Letourneau, President and CEO of Svante. (Svante photo) Svante of Vancouver, BC, has closed a $ 75 million financing round. The company calls it “the world’s largest private investment in carbon capture from point sources to date”. Since launching in 2007, the Canadian company has developed technology that enables industrial carbon emissions to be … Read more
The first major reform proposal under Section 230 of the Biden era has appeared. In a new bill, Senate Democrats Mark Warner, Mazie Hirono, and Amy Klobuchar propose changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that would fundamentally change the 1996 law that is widely credited with maintaining the modern Internet. Section 230 … Read more