IT総合 Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR
FundamentalVR, an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a rou...
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IT総合 Truework, which helps lenders verify borrowers’ income and employment, raises $50M
Truework, a company that builds technology for mortgage and consumer-centric lenders to instantly verify the income and ...
IT総合 Vista Equity Partners to acquire automated tax compliance company Avalara for $8.4B
Global investment giant Vista Equity Partners has announced plans to acquire automated tax compliance software provider ...
IT総合 Bluu Seafood unveils its first lab-grown fish products and readies for regulators
Bluu Seafood, a German company developing “lab-grown” fish, is showcasing its first finished products as it ...
IT総合 Gilead Sciences to acquire Oxford University biotech spinout MiroBio for $405M
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has announced plans to acquire Oxford University biotech spinout company MiroB...
IT総合 Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion
Barely a day goes by without news of layoffs emerging from the tech world — from cybersecurity to gaming, no indus...
IT総合 U.K provisionally approves $8.1B NortonLifeLock-Avast merger, citing competition from Microsoft
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally greenlighted the proposed $8.1 billion merger...
IT総合 Employee benefits platform Ben raises $16M to cut HR admin
Employee benefits platform Ben today announced it has raised $16 million in a series A round of funding led by European ...
IT総合 Sheryl Sandberg officially stepped down as Meta COO on August 1, filing shows
We knew it was happening, but Meta has confirmed that its long-standing chief operating officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg ha...
IT総合 UiPath acquires London-based NLP startup Reinfer
Robotic process automation (RPA) company UiPath has acquired Reinfer, a London-based startup that’s developing nat...
IT総合 Twitter and Elon Musk trial confirmed for October 17
Twitter’s bid to get Elon Musk to follow through with his multi-billion-dollar bid to buy the social network will ...
IT総合 Spotify forks out $295M for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable, and Sonantic, filing reveals
Spotify has quietly announced how much it’s paying for four of its recent acquisitions, revealing that it’s ...
IT総合 Datacenter electricity demands could curtail London housing development
Datacenters might be the lifeblood of the modern digital economy, but for housing developers in some parts of London the...
IT総合 Human Security merges with PerimeterX to thwart bots and automated fraud
Human Security, a bot mitigation and fraud detection platform for enterprises, is merging with PerimeterX, a company foc...
IT総合 U.K. antitrust authority sees no competition concerns in music-streaming industry
Some nine months after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) revealed it was carrying out a market st...
IT総合 Corporate travel tech platform Spotnana nabs $75M
Spotnana, a self-proclaimed “travel-as-a-service” platform that targets corporations, travel management firm...
IT総合 Amazon hikes Prime subscription prices in Europe by up to 43%
Amazon has announced that it’s increasing the prices for its Prime subscription service in Europe, with fees risin...
IT総合 Twitter posts quarterly sales drop and says it spent $33M on pending Musk acquisition
Twitter has published its Q2 2022 results, with the social networking giant’s numbers falling short of analysts...
IT総合 Just Eat Takeaway scales back in France as market value drops 84% in 10 months
Just Eat Takeaway is cutting 390 jobs from its workforce in France, constituting part of a broader global restructuring ...
IT総合 Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
Fonoa, a tax automation platform used by companies such as Uber and Zoom, has raised $60 million in a series B round of ...
IT総合 Cultivated meat company Meatable showcases its first product — synthetic sausages
Meatable, a Dutch biotech company developing cultivated “lab-grown” meat products, has revealed images of it...
IT総合 Charles raises $20M to bring conversational commerce to WhatsApp in Europe
Conversational commerce isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps,...
IT総合 Google expands its photo and canvas printing service to Europe and Canada
Google is expanding its photo and canvas prints service to Europe and Canada.
Google has offered printed photo books in ...
IT総合 Push Security launches to make SaaS sprawl and shadow IT safer
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has emerged as a pan-industry force by just about every estimation. SaaS has been bucking m...
IT総合 Microsoft u-turns on policy that would’ve banned commercial open source apps
Microsoft has confirmed that it won’t be introducing a previously announced new policy that would effectively ban ...
IT総合 Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks
Denmark is effectively banning Google’s services in schools, after officials in the municipality of Helsingør were...
IT総合 Acast acquires podcast database Podchaser
Acast, the Swedish tech company that helps businesses and individuals publish and monetize podcasts, has announced plans...
IT総合 Dissecting Microsoft’s proposed policy to ban commercial open-source apps
Microsoft caused considerable consternation in the open source community over the past month, after unveiling a shake up...
IT総合 Richard Branson backs Lightyear as UK stock trading platform launches into Europe
Lightyear, a U.K. fintech startup that promises consumers commission-free trading on U.S. and European stocks, is offici...
IT総合 Cathay Innovation launches third multi-stage startup fund at $1B
Global venture capital firm Cathay Innovation has announced its third fund, targeting €1 billion ($1.05 billion) at a br...