Amazon to stream WNBA games on Prime Video in tech giant’s latest deal with a pro sports league

Amazon to stream WNBA games on Prime Video in tech giant’s latest deal with a pro sports league

Seattle Storm Star Sue Bird. (File Photo via Neil Enns / Seattle Storm) Add the WNBA to the list of professional sports leagues Amazon wants to showcase through its Prime Video streaming platform. Amazon and the WNBA have entered into a multi-year agreement that grants Prime Video exclusive global streaming rights to 16 WNBA games … Read more

Stocks Drop for a Third Day as Inflation Concerns Increase

Stocks Drop for a Third Day as Inflation Concerns Increase

Here’s what you need to know: Stocks on Wall Street dropped for the third consecutive day on Wednesday as new data on consumer prices added to investors’ concerns that inflation could upend the Federal Reserve’s efforts to keep interest rates low to bolster the economy. The S&P 500 fell 2.1 percent, pushing its losses this … Read more

Elon Musk, Technoking of Tesla, orders a halt to bitcoin car payments  – TechCrunch

Elon Musk, Technoking of Tesla, orders a halt to bitcoin car payments  – TechCrunch

Tesla CEO and The self-proclaimed Technoking puts the company’s stance on Bitcoin in the background and has suspended the purchase of its electric vehicles with the cryptocurrency. The change in stance, transmitted via tweet, comes just a few weeks after Tesla’s CFO and the title of “Master of Coin”. Zach Kirkhorn said the company believes … Read more

Best water filter pitcher of 2021

Best water filter pitcher of 2021

(CNN) —   When you dive into the marketplace for water filters, pitchers and dispensers, you’ll find a wide variety of offerings. In an effort to find the best brand and shape that fits every lifestyle, we tested eight options — ranging from a super-small, made-for-one pitcher to a giant, double-digit cup dispenser. We put … Read more

Madrona Venture Labs raises $8M, unveils plan to turn its investors into co-founders of spinouts

Madrona Venture Labs raises $8M, unveils plan to turn its investors into co-founders of spinouts

The Madrona Venture Labs team, clockwise from left: Flora Ku, Keith Rosema, Maria Hess, Henry Huang, Mike Fridgen, Jay Bartot, Jason Flateboe. (Madrona Venture Labs photo) The news: Madrona Venture Labs, the startup studio affiliated with Madrona Venture Group, has raised $ 8 million for its fourth fund. The Seattle-based studio also unveiled a new … Read more

Man Hangs On for Life After Winds Shatter Glass Bridge in China

Man Hangs On for Life After Winds Shatter Glass Bridge in China

A man who ventured onto a glass floor bridge in northeast China clung to the side for a dear life after storm winds blew away some floor slabs and left gaping holes in the structure several hundred feet above the ground. The episode occurred on Saturday on Piyan Mountain in Longjing, China, state media said, … Read more

Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, used by 45M and now valued at $4.5B – TechCrunch

Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, used by 45M and now valued at $4.5B – TechCrunch

The circular economy, in which consumers themselves are both providers and buyers of goods and services, has emerged as a popular and trusted way of buying and selling things over the last year of the lockdown life. Now one of the bigger players in this system – the clothing and homeware marketplace Vinted – is … Read more