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How to watch basketball at the Tokyo Olympics, including the new 3-on-3 tournament6h ago ( July 23, 2021 at 12:29 PM ) Tags: Reviews, Japan, Usa, Nbc, Entertainment, Australia, France, Germany, Nigeria, US, Sports, Trends, Tech, United States, Olympics, Italy 69 people like this. Like Tesla, BHP ink supply deal for nickel ahead of demand surgeJuly 22, 2021 at 1:03 PM Tesla will secure nickel from the commodity production giant BHP, the automaker’s latest move to secure direct sources of raw materials that are projected to surge in demand before the decade is out.
BHP’s Nickel West division will supply an undisclosed amount of the mineral from its mines in Western Australia. The two companies also agreed to work together to increase battery supply chain sustainability and to identify ways to decrease carbon emissions from their respective operations using ene...Tags: Transportation, Indonesia, Australia, Tech, Tesla, Supply Chains, Automotive, Pacific, Western Australia, Lithium Ion Batteries, Musk, BHP, International Energy Agency, Electric Vehicle Batteries, Tesla BHP, Robyn Denhlm 23 people like this. Like Australia's Giant Carbon Capture Project Fails To Meet Key TargetsJuly 21, 2021 at 4:43 PM  Tags: Australia, Tech, Scott Morrison, Western Australia, Chevron, WA, Peter Milne 108 people like this. Like Dwolla raises $21M to bring more customizable payment and money transfer options to fintechs and brandsJuly 21, 2021 at 8:21 AM Stripe, with its $95 billion valuation, has been taking on the payment landscape with a whole platform approach, bringing in dozens of adjacent services to snag a wider and deeper set of customers that use these services by way of APIs. But in the world of so-called “embedded finance” there still remains a lot of room for smaller players to bring a more sophisticated approach to the business of building complicated financial processes that can be integrated by third parties to carry out their ow...Tags: Australia, Finance, Funding, Tech, Canada, Transfers, Payments, Fintech, Foundry Group, HARRIS, U K, DES MOINES Iowa, Traeger, NDA, Ach, Ludlow Ventures 41 people like this. Like Percent raises $5M, aiming to become the ‘Stripe for donations’ to good causesJuly 21, 2021 at 3:01 AM What with the planet collapsing and democracy under constant attack from all quarters – you know, just the usual – one or two members of the global population have, idly or not, wondered if the private sector might want to step up? I mean, as well as shooting billionaires into space. At the same time, even! Luckily, many businesses want to do better. But there are one or two hurdles. Incorporating “purpose” into their digital offering, such as donating to a non-profit at the end of a moving docu...Tags: TC, Europe, UK, Australia, US, Articles, Tech, Ceo, United States, Magazines, United Kingdom, Api, David Attenborough, Streaming Services, Nationwide Building Society, Managing Partner 36 people like this. Like Twitter tests a TweetDeck revamp it hopes to make a subscription productJuly 20, 2021 at 4:35 PM Twitter announced today it will begin testing a new set of features for TweetDeck, the company’s often-ignored social media dashboard aimed at Twitter’s power users, which Twitter may soon turn into a new subscription service. According to a post from Twitter Product Lead Kayvon Beykpour, the revamped version of the Twitter client will include a full tweet composer, new advanced search features, new column types, and a new ways to group columns into clean workspaces.
We’re testing new feature...Tags: Social, Apps, Twitter, Australia, Tweet, Social Media, Tech, Canada, Kayvon Beykpour, Tweetdeck, Jane Manchun Wong, Eric Zuckerman, Angelo Tomasco 41 people like this. Like Employment Hero gets $140M AUD Series E led by Insight Partners, grows valuation to $800M AUDJuly 20, 2021 at 7:00 AM Employment Hero co-founders Ben Thompson and Dave Tong
Four months after announcing its last round, Employment Hero has closed another $140 million AUD (about $103 million USD) in funding. The Series E was led by Insight Partners, the venture capital firm known for its ScaleUp program to help tech companies accelerate their growth.
Employment Hero is an automated human resources, payroll and benefits platform for SMEs. Founded in Sydney in 2014, the company is now expanding into Southeast Asi...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Asia, Australia, Southeast Asia, Singapore, Tech, Ben Thompson, Dave, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Sydney, New Zealand, Vietnam, Thompson 23 people like this. Like Apple's Back to School Deals Now Live in Europe, Asia, and the Middle EastJuly 15, 2021 at 6:25 PM  Tags: Apple, Asia, Europe, Featured, Australia, Thailand, Canada, United States, Middle East, New Zealand, Europe Asia, iMac Mac Pro Mac, Macbook Air Macbook Pro, UK Ireland France, Back to School promotion, Middle East Higher 66 people like this. Like Australia: Time to topple the digital Goliaths - Travis Schultz & PartnersJuly 15, 2021 at 3:20 PM Google and other digital giants have power, but cannot be trusted to demonstrate a reasonable level of
social conscience.Tags: Google, News, Australia, Partners, Goliaths Travis Schultz 13 people like this. Like How engineers fought the CAP theorem in the global war on latencyJuly 15, 2021 at 11:01 AM CockroachDB was intended to be a global database from the beginning. The founders of Cockroach Labs wanted to ensure that data written in one location would be viewable immediately in another location 10,000 miles away. The use case was simple, but the work needed to make it happen was herculean.
The company is betting the farm that it can solve one of the largest challenges for web-scale applications. The approach it’s taking is clever, but it’s a bit complicated, particularly for the non-techn...Tags: Startups, Hong Kong, Enterprise, Australia, Tech, Eu, SaaS, Sydney, EC, Databases, Data Management, Database, Spencer Kimball, Cockroach Labs, Relational Database, CockroachDB 22 people like this. Like Google has been hit with another fine in Europe, this time for $593 million in France after failing to strike a deal with news publishersJuly 13, 2021 at 6:29 AM Tags: Apple, Google, Facebook, Europe, Technology, Australia, France, US, Trends, Eu, Bloomberg, Regulation, Canada, Antitrust, Silva, Tech Insider 79 people like this. Like NewView Capital leads $22.3M Series B in Australian telehealth platform EucalyptusJuly 13, 2021 at 7:00 PM Telehealth platform Eucalyptus raised a $22.3 million Series B round of funding to build a digital health portfolio for primary care in Australia.
NewView Capital led the round with participation from existing investors Blackbird Ventures and W23, and new investor AirTree Ventures. As part of the investment, Ravi Viswanathan, NewView founder and managing partner, will be joining the Eucalyptus board.
The new round gives the Sydney-based company a total of $32.8 million raised since it was founde...Tags: Health, Startups, TC, Australia, Tech, Sydney, Telemedicine, Digital Healthcare, Eucalyptus, Doyle, Blackbird Ventures, Viswanathan, Tim Doyle, Telehealth, Teledoc, AirTree Ventures 14 people like this. Like Google told to pay for news with ultimatum and $593 million fineJuly 13, 2021 at 11:20 AM Australia earlier this year required digital firms including Facebook and Google to pay local publishers for news.Tags: Google, Facebook, Australia, Advertising 45 people like this. Like Google fined $592M in France for breaching antitrust order to negotiate copyright fees for news snippetsJuly 13, 2021 at 7:21 AM France has hit Google with a fine of half a billion euros after finding major breaches in how it negotiated with publishers to remunerate them for reuse of their content — as is required under a pan-EU reform of digital copyright law which extended neighbouring rights to news snippets.
The size of the fine is notable as it’s over half of the entire $1BN news licensing pot that Google announced last October — when it said it would be paying news publishers “to create and curate high-quality conte...Tags: Google, Facebook, Europe, UK, Media, Australia, France, Tech, Eu, European Union, Antitrust, Competition And Markets Authority, Copyright Law, Le Monde, Authority, Reuters Critical RCE Flaw in ForgeRock Access Manager Under Active AttackJuly 13, 2021 at 12:52 AM Cybersecurity agencies in Australia and the U.S. are warning of an actively exploited vulnerability impacting ForgeRock's OpenAM access management solution that could be leveraged to execute arbitrary code on an affected system remotely.
"The [Australian Cyber Security Centre] has observed actors exploiting this vulnerability to compromise multiple hosts and deploy additional malware and tools," [Author: [email protected] (Ravie Lakshmanan)]Tags: Australia, Tech, Ravie Lakshmanan 44 people like this. Like Carsome Group will acquire iCar Asia in a deal worth $200MJuly 12, 2021 at 11:53 PM Southeast Asia’s car marketplace wars are going into high drive. Today Carsome Group, one of the region’s largest online used car marketplaces, said it plans to acquire listings platform iCar Asia in a transaction worth more than $200 million.
Carsome has agreed to acquire 19.9% of iCar Asia from Malaysia internet conglomerate Catcha Group. In exchange, Catcha Group will become a shareholder in Carsome Group. Carsome and Catcha Group have also made a joint proposal to iCar Asia’s directors to bu...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Asia, Indonesia, Australia, China, Southeast Asia, Tech, Malaysia, Australian Financial Review, Carro, Carsome, Eric Cheng, SoftBank Vision Fund, Catcha Group 45 people like this. Like US Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Bakes Wheat, Fruit CropsJuly 12, 2021 at 2:05 PM Tags: Australia, Tech, Canada, United States, Idaho, Pacific Northwest, Kress, Cordell Kress 109 people like this. Like Paramount Plus starts at just $5 a month, but you'll need the more expensive plan to get live CBSJuly 12, 2021 at 1:37 PM Tags: Reviews, TV, Entertainment, Australia, Comedy Central, Halo, US, NFL, Trends, Tech, Star Trek, Mtv, New Zealand, Streaming, Cbs, SEC 51 people like this. Like Elevate Brands banks $250M to roll up third-party merchants selling on Amazon’s marketplaceJuly 12, 2021 at 11:06 AM The Amazon roll-up play — where one company creates economies of scale by buying up and consolidating multiple smaller third-party merchants that sell their goods via Amazon’s marketplace — continues to be a strong e-commerce trend, and in the latest development, one of the hopefuls in this space is announcing a major injection of capital to fuel its own place in the field.
Elevate Brands, a New York- and Austin-based startup that acquires and runs third-party Amazon merchants, has picked up $25...Tags: Amazon, Ecommerce, Asia, New York, Australia, Berlin, Funding, Tech, Austin, Latin America, EBITDA, Adam Jacobs, Perch, Elevated, Thrasio, Berlin Brands Group 44 people like this. Like We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #545July 12, 2021 at 8:12 AM Instagram declares it’s no longer a photo-sharing app
In a recent post, Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri declared that the platform is “no longer a photo-sharing app”; instead, it will be focusing its efforts on improving the user experience around entertainment and video. Mosseri also detailed some of the new features and experiments that Instagram has been working on – including outlining its four key areas of focus going forwards: Creators, Video, Shopping and Messaging.
...Tags: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Australia, US, Seo, Canada, Reddit, Donald Trump, Mashup, Sony Music Entertainment, Trump, Twitter Facebook, Facebook YouTube, Zara Larsson A guide to personal finance for immigrants to the UKJuly 12, 2021 at 5:00 AM  Tags: Apple, UK, London, Australia, Savings, Immigration, Miscellaneous, Marketing, Post Office, Britain, Barclays, Wise, Equifax, BRP, TransUnion, Monevation 76 people like this. Like Dovetail, the venture studio that has worked with startups like Afterpay, is raising a new fundJuly 11, 2021 at 11:35 PM Dovetail co-founders Ash Fogelberg and Nick Frandsen
Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full-service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea, but may lack technical backgrounds. Dovetail helps them build companies from the ground up, preparing them for growth and more funding. Founded in 2014, Dovetail’s success stories include Afterpay, the Melbourne-headquartered unicorn that is one of the highest-profile players in the buy now, play later space, along...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Australia, Tech, Sydney, New Zealand, Venture Capital, Fund, Melbourne, North America, Auckland, Klarna, Frandsen, National disability insurance scheme, Nick Molnar 30 people like this. Like 'We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals' (slashdot)July 9, 2021 at 7:23 PM Motherboard bought an FBI "Anom" phone that the agency secretly sells to criminals to monitor their communications. Joseph Cox reports: The sleek, black phone seems perfectly normal. Unlocking the Google Pixel 4a with a PIN code reveals some common apps: Tinder, Instagram, Facebook, Netflix, and even Candy Crush. But none of those apps work, and tapping their icons doesn't do anything. Resetting the phone and typing in another PIN opens up an entirely different section of the device, with a new ...Tags: Google, News, Australia, Fbi, BeauHD, Joseph Cox, Anom, FBI Anom, Tinder Instagram Facebook Netflix Fortnite Maker Wins Appeal in AustraliaJuly 9, 2021 at 12:44 PM Tags: Apple, Australia, California, Tech, Epic, App Store, US District Court, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, US District Court Epic 89 people like this. Like Apple's All-in-One Gift Card Now Available in Canada and AustraliaJuly 9, 2021 at 10:49 AM  Tags: Iphone, Apple, Ios, Ipad, Mac, Australia, Canada, United States, Rumors, Apple Store, Apple Music 67 people like this. Like Epic Wins Appeal to Continue Antitrust Case Against Apple in AustraliaJuly 9, 2021 at 4:58 AM  Tags: Apple, Lawsuit, Australia, California, United States, Epic, States, Epic Games, Federal Court, Epic Games vs. Apple 66 people like this. Like Epic vs. Apple Australian side quest allowed to resumeJuly 9, 2021 at 1:31 AM Federal Court finds Apple is neither “ornamental” nor “parasitic” and thinks local action is appropriate despite US case
Epic Games has had a win in Australia, with the nation’s Federal Court permitting it to sue Apple over its insistence that it alone can process in-app purchases.…Tags: Apple, Australia, US, Software, Federal Court 30 people like this. Like 'We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals'July 8, 2021 at 6:40 PM Tags: Google, Australia, Tech, Fbi, Joseph Cox, Anom, FBI Anom, Tinder Instagram Facebook Netflix 66 people like this. Like Swiss Post acquires e2e encrypted cloud services provider, TresoritJuly 8, 2021 at 8:00 AM Swiss Post, the former state-owned mail delivery firm which became a private limited company in 2013, diversifying into logistics, finance, transport and more (including dabbling in drone delivery) while retaining its role as Switzerland’s national postal service, has acquired a majority stake in Swiss-Hungarian startup Tresorit, an early European pioneer in end-to-end-encrypted cloud services.
Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed. But Swiss Post’s income has been falling in recent y...Tags: Security, Fundings & Exits, TC, Cloud, Europe, Post, UK, Privacy, Australia, Cloud Storage, Germany, US, Tech, Eu, European Union, Encryption 2 people like this. Like Kick like a pro with Footy Skills LabJuly 7, 2021 at 7:20 PM  Tags: Google, Australia, Ai, Melbourne, AFL, Richmond, Carlton, AFLW, Tayla Harris, Footy Skills Lab, Brisbane Aussie Rules, Madison Prespakis, Manchester Miami 139 people like this. Like |
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