Journals

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Silverfort, which provides identity threat protection tools, raised a $116M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, sources say at an “around” $1B valuation  —  Silverfort, the Israeli/U.S. startup, takes an all-in view when it comes… Read More »Silverfort, which provides identity threat protection tools, raised a $116M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, sources say at an “around” $1B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft’s Bing, Edge, and Advertising services are set to be exempt from EU’s DMA, as an EU probe tentatively concluded they’re not dominant enough  —  – EU probe comes ahead of March roll-out of Digital Markets Act  —… Read More »Sources: Microsoft’s Bing, Edge, and Advertising services are set to be exempt from EU’s DMA, as an EU probe tentatively concluded they’re not dominant enough (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Attain: Boomers and Generation X consumers in the US shopped more frequently and spent more than Gen Z on Temu in 2023; Boomers shopped twice as much as Gen Z  —  – Boomers shopped twice as much on app… Read More »Attain: Boomers and Generation X consumers in the US shopped more frequently and spent more than Gen Z on Temu in 2023; Boomers shopped twice as much as Gen Z (Bloomberg)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Bluewhite, which offers “robots-as-a-service” including autonomous robots that can be retrofitted to tractors, raised a $39M Series C led by Insight Partners  —  Agriculture has a long heritage of being constantly disrupted by technology, an evolution… Read More »Bluewhite, which offers “robots-as-a-service” including autonomous robots that can be retrofitted to tractors, raised a $39M Series C led by Insight Partners (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: A bug in Ethereum’s Nethermind client took down 8% of Ethereum’s validators on January 21, raising concerns about Geth, which powers ~85% of the validators  —  The lion’s share of Ethereum’s validators rely on the same… Read More »A bug in Ethereum’s Nethermind client took down 8% of Ethereum’s validators on January 21, raising concerns about Geth, which powers ~85% of the validators (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix buys the exclusive rights to Raw and other WWE programs, marking Netflix’s first big move into live events, airing in 2025 in the US and other markets  —  – Company to be exclusive home for… Read More »Netflix buys the exclusive rights to Raw and other WWE programs, marking Netflix’s first big move into live events, airing in 2025 in the US and other markets (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Mark Wilson / Fast Company: An interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu about the R1’s design, collaboration with Teenage Engineering, why he didn’t want to make an app, and more  —  Few people knew who Jesse Lyu was when he… Read More »An interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu about the R1’s design, collaboration with Teenage Engineering, why he didn’t want to make an app, and more (Mark Wilson/Fast Company)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: MIT CSAIL study: only 23% of US wages paid to humans for doing vision tasks would be economically attractive to automate with AI, due to large upfront costs  —  Will AI automate human jobs, and —… Read More »MIT CSAIL study: only 23% of US wages paid to humans for doing vision tasks would be economically attractive to automate with AI, due to large upfront costs (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Qdrant, which makes open source vector database of the same name, raised a $28M Series A led by Spark Capital, after raising $7.5M in April 2023  —  Qdrant, the company behind the eponymous open source… Read More »Berlin-based Qdrant, which makes open source vector database of the same name, raised a $28M Series A led by Spark Capital, after raising $7.5M in April 2023 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Anto Antony / Bloomberg: Sources: Byju’s plans to raise more than $100M from existing investors at a less than $2B valuation, down more than 90% from $22B in October 2022  —  – Firm seeks $100 million at valuation of less… Read More »Sources: Byju’s plans to raise more than $100M from existing investors at a less than $2B valuation, down more than 90% from $22B in October 2022 (Anto Antony/Bloomberg)