Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $134.4B, a $6.7B net income, vs. a $2B net loss in Q2 2022, AWS segment sales up 12% YoY to $22.1B; AMZN jumps 9%+
now 60% of units sold are from third parties. Likely explains the wildly varying quality of what customers receive @thetranscript_ : $AMZN segments net sales Q2 23 YoY growth rates: —North America: +1...
Billogram, which has built a service for third parties to handle recurring payments, raises $45M from Partech
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Axis Security, which helps companies stay secure when employees work from home, raises $32M Series B led by Canaan Partners, bringing its total raised to $49M
Axis Security launched last year with the idea of helping customers to enable contractors and third parties to remotely access …
Ecwid, which sells e-commerce tools directly and via third parties like Square and Wix, raises $42M; Ecwid had raised only about $6.5M since its 2009 founding
In the same week that Facebook announced a redoubled effort to make a bigger mark in e-commerce, one of its long-time partners has closed a large round of funding.
Netflix creates a $100M fund to support cast and crew members laid off from Netflix projects, with $15M to go to third parties and nonprofits
> @netflix This community has supported Netflix through the good times & we want to help them through these hard times...we've created a $100 million fund to help with hardship in the creative communi...
Netflix creates a $100M fund to support cast and crew members laid off from Netflix projects, with $15M to go to third parties and nonprofits
Netflix has created a $100 million relief fund to help members of the creative community who have been left unemployed and without a way to earn an income during the coronavirus crisis.
Sensel, which makes multi-touch input devices for third parties, raises $28M Series A to work with new OEMs, bringing its total funding to $38M
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
In report, Uber discloses 3,045 sexual assaults, 9 murders, and 58 people killed in crashes out of its 1.3B US rides in 2018
and we need to do more to address the horrific reality of rampant sexual assault happening every day across our country. https://twitter.com/... Ed Bott / @edbott : These are horrible numbers but also...
Social virtual reality platform AltspaceVR, which had raised $15M, is not shutting down as previously announced, thanks to new interest from “third parties”
What is dead in VR may never die, perhaps? — Social VR startup AltspaceVR may not be shutting down after all.
London-based Improbable raises $502M, led by SoftBank with participation from a16z, to create a platform for building virtual and simulated worlds
Improbable, the London startup that has developed a platform for third parties to build vast virtual and simulated worlds …