IT総合 HungryPanda, a food ordering app for the Asian diaspora, picks up $55M
Apps catering to the Chinese and wider Asian diaspora, especially urban consumers focused on food, can be big business. ...
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IT総合 IT総合 After losing a peering lawsuit in Germany, Meta says it’s never getting back together with Deutsche Telekom
Consumer apps can generate a lot of traffic and revenue, but some carriers have complained that they’re not gettin...
IT総合 Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $21.5M for robotics simulation tech
One of the most fundamental breakthroughs at Nvidia has been building processors that power and integrate with highly de...
IT総合 EGYM, a connected fitness startup conceived after the founder hit a wall at the gym, lands $200m at a $1.2B+ valuation
Getting healthy is big business these days. Now a startup that’s come up with a unique approach leveraging tech to help ...
IT総合 Ephos wants to shatter the market for AI and quantum chips with a new design based on glass
A theoretical physicist believes he has made a breakthrough in photonics research that will enable us to have faster and...
IT総合 Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources
Black Forest Labs, an image GenAI startup that only came out of stealth two months ago, has closed a a monster new round...
IT総合 Black Forest Labs, the company that powers Grok’s image generation, is raising another $100M on a $1B valuation, say sources
Black Forest Labs, an image GenAI startup that only came out of stealth two months ago, has closed a a monster new round...
IT総合 Picus Security, founded by Turkish 3 mathematicians, raises $45M after simulating 1B cyberattacks
For as long as coding has existed, we have had a plethora of methods — white-hat testers, software, and more — to valida...
IT総合 The cybersecurity labor gap now stands at 4M+ open jobs. Intezer has raised $33M for AI tools to plug it
When it comes to talent shortages in tech, cybersecurity is one of the biggest and most urgent that needs filling. Malic...
IT総合 Quick-commerce startup Flink raises another $150M at a valuation of nearly $1B
Flink, a quick-commerce startup out of Berlin that was an acquisition target of Gorillas, Getir, Amazon, and Gopuff, is ...
IT総合 Novatus nabs $40M to help financial institutions quell their RegTech nightmares
Banks, investments and financial services are not known to be bastions of transparency — not to the general public, and,...
IT総合 Bad credits: consumer group files EU suit over ‘manipulative’ payments in games like Fortnite and Minecraft, calls for a ban
Video games are some of most lucrative apps in the world, thanks in part because of how they lure people into spending m...
IT総合 Qualifyze swallows $54M to improve pharmaceutical supply chains
In the world of pharmaceuticals, companies aim to operate under GMP guidelines — a set of production and manufacturing m...
IT総合 Form3, a quiet giant in UK fintech, raises $60M at a $570M valuation
Form3, a startup building tools to connect financial players with each other to enable account payments, has it raised $...
IT総合 Online, led by social media, overtakes TV as the most popular source of news in the UK, Ofcom says
Online platforms have now overtaken TV for the first time as the most popular resource for news among adult consumers, a...
IT総合 US, UK and EU sign on to the Council of Europe’s high-level AI safety treaty
We’re not very close to any specifics on how, exactly, AI regulations will be implemented and ensured, but today a...
IT総合 Verizon bets on fiber’s staying power as it acquires Frontier for $20B
Some major consolidation is afoot in the world of internet communications — and it will have implications for competitio...
IT総合 Neko Health, the body-scanning AI health startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, opens in London
Prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes. Today, a splashy startup that has taken that concept to heart — lite...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s Brazil battle wages on
Is Elon’s rumble in the Amazonian jungle on course for a technical knockout? Over the weekend, the Brazilian high ...
IT総合 Will HP still demand $4B from Mike Lynch’s estate?
Before entrepreneur and investor Mike Lynch died along with six others after the yacht they were on capsized in a storm ...
IT総合 Food delivery is seeing more consolidation: GrubMarket snaps up FreshGoGo
GrubMarket, the $3.6-billion, food delivery and supply chain startup backed by Tiger Global, BlackRock and nearly 100 ot...
IT総合 The top AI deals in Europe this year
Cumulatively, there have been more than 1,700 funding rounds for AI startups in Europe so far in 2024.
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IT総合 Opkey, an AI-based ERP testing platform, raises $47M
Companies are experimenting with services like ChatGPT to help workers write memos, answer questions, and much more, yet...
IT総合 Bodies of Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and his daughter recovered from sunken Bayesian yacht
Grim news coming in from Sicily, Italy. Mike Lynch, the U.K. investor and founder of IT company Autonomy, has been ident...
IT総合 Story raises $83M at $2.25B valuation to build a blockchain for the business of content IP in the age of AI
AI giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and Stability AI have faced a lot of heat over how they’ve scraped data and rode ...
IT総合 Mike Lynch, recently acquitted in HP-Autonomy fraud case, is missing after yacht capsized off Sicily (updated)
Update: Authorities have yet to access the inside of the sunken yacht, and Mike Lynch is still classified as missing. Ot...
IT総合 Mike Lynch, recently acquitted in HP-Autonomy fraud case, is missing after yacht capsized off Sicily
Mike Lynch, the investor and high-profile founder of U.K. tech firm Autonomy, has been declared missing at sea after the...
IT総合 AMD to acquire infrastructure player ZT Systems for $4.9B to amp up its AI ecosystem play
AMD is acquiring ZT Systems, which provides compute design and infrastructure for AI, cloud and general purpose computin...
IT総合 TipRanks, an AI-based stock tip evaluator created after its founder got burned by bad advice, sells for $200M to Prytek
Prytek had already been a big investor in TipRanks since 2017, most recently leading a $77 million round in the company ...
IT総合 Kiteworks captures $456M at a $1B+ valuation to help secure sensitive data
Kiteworks, which builds tools to secure email communications and file sharing, has raised $456 million from Insight Part...