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Lime is reportedly trying to squeeze up to $500 million out of VCs
May 15, 7:44PM
Lime, the electric scooter and bike company, is looking to raise up to $500 million in new funding, Axios reports, citing sources. The round could come in the form of both equity and debt, according to Axios. To date, Lime has raised $132 million from investors. Its most recent round was just in February, when […]
Lyft also ends arbitration policy for sexual assault claims
May 15, 7:33PM
Shortly after Uber announced the end of its forced arbitration policy for individual claims of sexual assault or harassment by Uber drivers, riders or employees, Lyft has done the same, Recode first reported. This means anyone who alleges sexual misconduct at the hands of Lyft drivers, riders or employees won’t have to argue their case […]
Twitter algorithm changes will hide more bad tweets and trolls
May 15, 6:46PM
Twitter’s latest effort to curb trolling and abuse on the site takes some of the burden off users and places it on the company’s algorithms. If you tap on a Twitter or real-world celebrity’s tweet, more often than not there’s a bot as one of the first replies. This has been an issue for so […]
Lynq is a dead-simple gadget for finding your friends outdoors
May 15, 6:27PM
If you've ever been hiking or skiing, gone to a music festival or state fair, you know how easy it is to lose track of your friends, and the usually ridiculous exchange of "I'm by the big thing"-type messages. Lynq is a gadget that fixes this problem with an ultra-simple premise: it simply tells you how far and in what direction your friends are, no data connection required.
Amazon Sumerian, a platform for building AR, VR and 3D apps, is now open to all
May 15, 6:03PM
Last November, AWS announced a new product called Amazon Sumerian, a toolkit and platform for developers to build “mixed reality” apps — that is, using virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D — without needing to have any specialised programming or graphics skills. And today, after running the service in a private beta for the last several […]
Google's Pixel Buds learn some new tricks
May 15, 5:56PM
I/O may have ended, but Google's still trickling out news at a steady rate. The latest update comes from one of the more unexpected corners of the Googleverse. Pixel Buds, the company's hotly anticipated and lukewarmly received bluetooth headphones are getting a nice software update. In a blog post today, the company highlighted some new […]
Blogger gets a spring cleaning
May 15, 5:48PM
Blogger, the blogging platform Google acquired back in 2003, is somehow still alive and kicking, even though few people remember it still exists. But alive it is — and it’s even getting some updates to its Google+ integration that will see all those 20 people still on Google+ rejoice. After a year of inactivity, Blogger’s […]
Sarah Guo breaks through at Greylock, becoming one of the first female general partners in the firm's 53-year history
May 15, 5:20PM
Sarah Guo didn’t necessarily set out to become a venture capitalist. She certainly didn’t imagine she would become one of the first general partners at one of the oldest venture firms in the country. Yet Guo is both of these things today. Indeed, the venture firm Greylock Partners, which Guo joined five years ago as […]
Canal+ gives up on its cable box, switches to Apple TV
May 15, 5:12PM
French premium cable television company Canal+ is slowly moving away from building its own set top boxes. As Next INpact spotted, you can now subscribe to Canal+ and get an Apple TV 4K with Canal+'s myCanal app already preloaded. Canal+ has been around for decades and was the first premium TV channel in France. Over […]
AT&T's DirecTV Now live TV service launches a DVR, upgrades the app with new features
May 15, 5:02PM
AT&T’s over-the-top streaming service for cord cutters, DirecTV Now, is finally beginning to roll out its cloud DVR feature – a year and a half after its launch. The DVR has been in testing since last year, with AT&T in seemingly no hurry to push out the feature that’s since become a baseline for live […]
Google Compute Engine now offers VMs with up to 3844GB of memory
May 15, 4:51PM
Sometimes, you just need more RAM. That’s especially true when you want to run memory-hungry enterprise applications like SAP’s HANA database or high-performance computing workloads. Until now, if you wanted the Google Compute Engine to run applications like that, your options topped out at 624GB of memory. Starting today, though, the company is going beyond […]
Zuckerberg again snubs UK parliament over call to testify
May 15, 4:41PM
Facebook has once again eschewed a direct request from the UK parliament for its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to testify to a committee investigating online disinformation — without rustling up so much as a fig-leaf-sized excuse to explain why the founder of one of the world’s most used technology platforms can’t squeeze a video call into […]
MemSQL raises $30M Series D round for its real-time database
May 15, 4:30PM
MemSQL, a company best known for the real-time capabilities of its eponymous in-memory database, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series D round, bringing the company’s overall funding to $110 million. The round was led by GV (the firm you probably still refer to as Google Ventures) and Glynn Capital. Existing investors […]
Tweetbot 3 arrives with a new look…and a reprieve from Twitter's API changes
May 15, 4:28PM
One of the more popular desktop clients for Twitter, Tweetbot, is today launching a completely rewritten version of its software, Tweetbot 3 for Mac. The updated app introduces new features like timeline filters, a new notifications view, an upgraded navigation sidebar, and more. At the same time, the company is also detailing what impact to […]
Quarterback lets top esports gamers and streamers create their own fan-based leagues
May 15, 4:12PM
In an effort to tie the top gamers and streamers more directly with their fans, a new company called Quarterback has just raised $2.5 million to create and manage fan-based leagues for the superstars of the esports and streaming world. The company raked in its seed round from investors led by Bitkraft Esports, which is […]
Music payments startup Exactuals debuts R.AI, a 'Palantir for music royalties'
May 15, 3:53PM
Exactuals, a software service offering payments management for the music industry, is debuting R.AI, a new tool that it’s dubbed the “Palantir for music.” It’s a service that can track songwriting information and rights across different platforms to ensure attribution for music distributors. As companies like Apple and Spotify demand better information from labels about the […]
Auth0 snags $55M Series D, seeks international expansion
May 15, 3:23PM
Auth0, a startup based in Seattle, has been helping developers with a set of APIs to build authentication into their applications for the last five years. It’s raised a fair bit of money along the way to help extend that mission, and today the company announced a $55 million Series D. This round was led […]
Facebook's new transparency report now includes data on takedowns of 'bad' content, including hate speech
May 15, 3:12PM
Facebook this morning released its latest Transparency report, where the social network shares information on government requests for user data, noting that these requests had increased globally by around 4 percent compared to the first half of 2017, though U.S. government-initiated requests stayed roughly the same. In addition, the company added a new report to […]
BRD crowdraises $32 million to build financial services into a mobile crypto wallet
May 15, 3:09PM
Crypto wallets can’t remain crypto wallets for long. There is so much competition and so many scammers that value-added features like financial services are de rigueur. BRD knows this quite well and is putting $32 million behind the platform to grow out the features and cryptocurrencies supported on their popular app. Founded by Aaron Voisine, […]
WhatsApp revamps Groups to fight Telegram
May 15, 3:00PM
Facebook just installed its VP of Internet.org as the new head of WhatsApp after its CEO Jan Koum left the company. And now Facebook is expanding its mission to get people into “meaningful” groups to WhatsApp. Today, WhatsApp launched a slew of new features for Groups on iOS and Android that let admins set a […]
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