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Malt raises $28.6 million for its freelancer platform
Feb 14, 8:10AM
French startup Malt is raising a $28.6 million funding round (€25 million) with Idinvest Partners leading the round and existing investors ISAI and Serena also participating. Overall, the company has raised $36.6 million since its creation (€32 million). Malt has created a marketplace for engineers working as freelancers and companies. There are currently 100,000 freelancers […]
GoEuro rebrands as Omio to take its travel aggregator business global
Feb 14, 8:00AM
European multimodal travel booking platform GoEuro has announced a change of name and destination: Its new ambition is to go global, scaling beyond its regional grounding to tackle the challenge of intercity travel internationally — hence needing a more expansive brand name. The name it’s chosen is Omio, pronounced with the stress on the ‘me’ […]
Fitness startup Eastnine picks up £2M from LocalGlobe, Cherry Ventures, Niklas Zennström and others
Feb 14, 8:00AM
Eastnine, a new fitness startup and app co-founded by London entrepreneur and investor Jason Goodman, is de-cloaking today, including disclosing that it has raised £2 million in seed funding. Leading the round is London-based LocalGlobe and Berlin-based Cherry Ventures, who are joined by a list of prominent angel investors that includes Niklas Zennström, co-founder of […]
Thailand's Jitta raises $6.5M to develop an algorithm-powered wealth fund
Feb 14, 7:25AM
Jitta, a Bangkok-based fintech startup, has announced a $6.5 million round as it prepares to launch an investment fund for consumers in what would be a first for the Thai market. The deal, which is described as pre-Series A, is one of the largest in Thailand for some time and it was led by Beacon […]
Romance scams cost more money than any other type of consumer fraud, says the Federal Trade Commission
Feb 14, 5:13AM
The Federal Trade Commission has released data that shows romance scams cost more money than other types of consumer fraud reported to the agency last year—and the problem is getting worse. Romance scammers target people through dating sites and apps or social media, often using fake profiles and sob stories to convince victims to send […]
Tesla 'Dog mode' and 'Sentry mode' are now live to guard your car and pets
Feb 14, 5:03AM
Tesla has officially released two features for its electric vehicles aimed at protecting what owners love: their car and pets, as the company looks to leverage its ability to deliver a continuous stream of new capabilities via over-the-air software updates. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been tweeting about these two features, known as Dog mode […]
China's Alipay digital wallet is entering 7,000 Walgreens stores
Feb 14, 4:32AM
China’s payments heavyweights have been following tourists abroad as their home market gets crowded. Ant Financial, Alibaba’s financial affiliate with a said valuation of $150 billion, now sees its virtual wallet Alipay handling transactions at 3,000 Walgreens stores in the U.S. and is eyeing to reach a roster of 7,000 locations by April. The alliance will […]
CEO of Rappler, a media company critical of the Philippines government, is arrested
Feb 14, 4:02AM
There’s serious concern around press freedom in the Philippines after Maria Ressa, the CEO of independent media company Rappler, was arrested last night. Ressa, who was CNN’s bureau chief in Manila and then Jakarta prior to starting Rappler in 2011, was arrested on cyber libel security charges for an article published in 2012, according to […]
Indonesia-focused Intudo Ventures raises new $50M fund
Feb 14, 2:12AM
Intudo Ventures, a VC firm focused on Indonesia, has closed a new $50 million fund. This is Intudo’s second fund to date following its $20 million debut last year. The firm is a relative newcomer to Southeast Asia but a key differentiator is that it is solely focused on Indonesia, which is the world’s fourth most populated country […]
Facebook mulled multi-billion-dollar acquisition of gaming giant Unity, book claims
Feb 14, 1:44AM
Less than a year after making a $3 billion investment into the future of virtual reality with the purchase of Oculus VR, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was considering another multi-billion-dollar bet to ensure that his company dominated the VR platform, buying Unity, the popular game engine that’s used to build half of all gaming titles. […]
Nintendo makes the old new again with Mario, Zelda, Tetris titles for Switch
Feb 13, 11:16PM
The afternoon brought an eventful series of announcements from Nintendo in one of its Direct video promos, and 2019 is looking to be a banner year for the Switch. Here's everything the company announced, from Super Mario Maker 2 to the unexpected remake of Game Boy classic Link's Awakening.
Nintendo is releasing a free battle royale version of Tetris
Feb 13, 10:48PM
It came right in the middle of the Nintendo Direct announcement this afternoon: “99 players… but only one reigns supreme.” It could be a tagline for just about any of the run-and-gun shoot ’em up battle royale games that are so popular right now, Ã la Fortnite or Apex. Instead, it’s the tagline for the […]
Qloo acquires cultural recommendation service TasteDive
Feb 13, 10:46PM
Qloo announced this morning that it has acquired TasteDive. The two companies sound pretty similar — according to the announcement, Qloo is “the leading artificial intelligence platform for culture and taste,” while TasteDive is “a cultural recommendation engine and social community.” What’s the difference? Well TasteDive is a website where you can create a profile, […]
Brightcove acquires Ooyala's video business for $15M
Feb 13, 10:21PM
Brightcove just announced that it’s acquiring Ooyala’s online video platform business. The deal brings together two long-lasting players in the online video industry. Brightcove was founded in 2004 and went public in 2012, while Ooyala was founded in 2007 and was acquired by Telstra before management bought back the company last fall. (Back when it […]
Nintendo announces Super Mario Maker 2 for Switch, so goodbye forever
Feb 13, 10:15PM
Nintendo has ruined my life, and all our lives, by announcing Super Mario Maker 2, the sequel to the level-constructing game on Wii U that produced thousands of devious levels for those who think the "real" games aren't hard enough. Gamers have been asking for this basically since the Switch was first rumored.
Medivis has launched its augmented reality platform for surgical planning
Feb 13, 10:04PM
After two years of development, Medivis, a New York-based company developing augmented reality data integration and visualization tools for surgeons, is bringing its first product to market. The company was founded by Osamah Choudhry and Christopher Morley who met as senior residents at NYU Medical Center. Initially a side-project, the two residents roped in some […]
The infosec reckoning has arrived
Feb 13, 9:08PM
2018 represented a record year for venture capital investment into information security, but this isn't a positive trend – and it definitely doesn't mean we're more secure. An unwarranted percentage of solutions being funded are not solving the problems defenders face the most. And with high numbers of lackluster information security startups failing to meet […]
Lime loses appeal to operate electric scooters in SF
Feb 13, 8:22PM
Lime, similar to its competitors Spin and JUMP, just got word that while its appeal to operate electric scooters in phase one of San Francisco’s pilot program was denied, it may be able to deploy scooters during phase two. This comes following San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Neutral Hearing Officer James Doyle’s decision regarding Ford’s […]
Wattpad's latest deal will turn its stories into TV shows and movies in Korea
Feb 13, 8:04PM
Wattpad’s ambitions to grow beyond a storytelling community for young adults took another leap forward today with the announcement of a new partnership that will help expand its reach in Asia. The company has teamed up with Huayi Brothers in Korea, which will now be Wattpad’s exclusive entertainment partner in the region. The two companies […]
Bill Gates-backed Vicarious Surgical adds a virtual reality twist to robots in the operating room
Feb 13, 8:00PM
In an operating room in rural Idaho, doctors prep a patient for surgery. They make a tiny, thumb-sized incision into the patient and insert a small robot while across the country a surgeon puts on a virtual reality headset, grabs their controllers and prepares to operate. While this scene may seem like science fiction now, […]
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