Spendesk, which develops spend management software for SMBs, raises $18M in an extension of its $38M Series B round, bringing its total funding to $68.5M
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Amazon unveils Halo, a $100 fitness band with an app to track emotional tone and create 3D scans for body fat, with an optional $4/month subscription service
A New Service that Helps Customers Improve Their Health and Wellness Emily Mullin / OneZero : Want a Free Amazon Halo Wearable? Just Hand Over Your Data To This Major Insurance Company Geoffrey Fowle...
UK-based MelodyVR, which creates immersive live music for VR headsets and phones, acquires Rhapsody International, owner of Napster, from RealNetworks for $70M
The saga of Napster has taken an interesting turn … Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide : Napster sold to MelodyVR in $70m deal, including $44m owed to record labels and other partners James Booth /...
Apple becomes the first US company to reach a $2T market cap during intraday trading, two years after reaching $1T
here's when it may be worth $3 trillion BBC : Apple helped make ‘top secret’ iPod for US government Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : Apple Is Now Worth $2 Trillion Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Appl...
Facebook launches Instagram Reels, its TikTok competitor that lets users create and publish 15-second videos, in 50+ countries, including the US, UK, and Japan
Why I think shoving the new ‘Reels’ product into Instagram may actually be a mistake Steven Hung / Micky : Instagram Reels cashes in, launches in 50 countries worldwide Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic...
TransferWise announces a new $319M secondary share sale round led by Lone Pine Capital and D1 Capital Partners at a $5B valuation
and Draper Esprit cashed in big Scoop : TransferWise Valuation Jumps To $5bn In $319m Secondary Share Sale Decrypt : Challenger bank TransferWise hits $5 billion valuation after $319 million round Ben...
A Garmin employee confirms that the company's servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp
and what you can do David Pierce / Protocol : iOS is telling on developers Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Garmin wearables back online after reported cyberattack Cat Ellis / TechRadar : Garmin Conn...
Epic Games unveils the Unreal Engine 5, coming in 2021, with a PlayStation 5 demo and says the Epic Online Services tools are available today
Hello, and welcome to The Edge, the newsletter … Marshall Honorof / Tom's Guide : PS5 already beats gaming PCs with this key feature Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Latest updates on PS5: Launch is ...
Spotify begins rolling out a new feature called Group Session, which lets multiple Premium users control a listening session
now available in 12 countries (Update: New features) Spotify : Group session — Listen together with a group session … Ed Bott / ZDNet : The best streaming music services: Spotify, Apple, Amazon and ...
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers
’ says Google, Comcast, and Huawei got in touch Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Amazon exec quits after company fires employee activists Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill : Amazon VP resigns after firi...