EdSights gets a $5 million Series A for student retention services
When sister duo Claudia and Carolina Recchi were first building EdSights, they used a big guiding question.
“In a perfect world [where] we somehow had a magic wand that allowed us to collect the data on whatever we want on our fingers, what would we want to know to prevent [college] students from
Coinbase to let you deposit part of your paycheck into your Coinbase account
Cryptocurrency company Coinbase is announcing a handful of new features. While the company is better known for its exchange that lets you convert USD into various cryptocurrencies, Coinbase wants to expand its consumer services so that you use the platform for different use cases with more financia
YouTube TV may drop 14 NBC Universal channels over a contract dispute
NBC Universal has warned YouTube TV subscribers that 14 of its channels may be removed if the two parties can’t resolve a dispute, 9to5Google has reported. YouTube has acknowledged the situation on its official blog, saying that it will drop its monthly price by $10 if the situation isn’
Five days left to save $100 on passes to TC Sessions: SaaS 2021
We're in countdown mode, folks. With just one month to go before TC Sessions: SaaS 2021, the early-bird pass is living on borrowed time — five days to be precise. Take advantage of full event access at a discount price. Buy your pass before the sale expires on October 1 at 11:59 pm (PT) and k
TikTok reached 1 billion monthly active users
TikTok announced in a blog post today that 1 billion people use TikTok every month. That means that on this big rock in space that we call home, about one in seven-and-a-half people are regularly watching short-form videos of dancing, dangerous “milk crate challenges” and even actual ed
New Age Meats bites into $25M for cultured meat product line development
Berkeley-based cultured meat company New Age Meats announced Monday it raised $25 million in Series A funding that will enable the company to begin production of its first product offering, a variety of pork sausages, next year.
Hanwha Solutions of South Korea led the funding round and was joined b
Astera Labs, a fabless chip startup, nabs $50M at a $950M valuation to remove bottlenecks in high-bandwidth cloud applications
As more enterprises migrate to cloud-based architectures, they are also taking on more applications (because they can) and, as a result of that, more complex workloads and storage needs. Machine learning and other artificial intelligence applications add even more complexity. Now a startup that has
US Space Force awards $87.5M to Rocket Lab, SpaceX, Blue Origin, ULA for next-gen rocket testing
The U.S. Space Force, the military branch spun out of the Air Force in December 2019, has announced its next batch of awards for projects related to next-gen rocket engine testing and upper-stage improvements.
The awards were granted by the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), a program managed by t
UK clears Facebook’s purchase of CRM maker, Kustomer
The U.K.’s competition watchdog has cleared Facebook’s acquisition of Kustomer, a maker of CRM tools.
The purchase was announced last November — with a price tag we reported as $1 billion — but is pending closing after facing regulatory scrutiny.
The U.K.R
Beyond Meat’s plant-based ‘chicken’ tenders are coming to grocery stores
Beyond Meat brought its plant-based “chicken” tenders to restaurants this summer, and soon you’ll be able to enjoy them at home when Beyond starts selling them through retailers. You’ll find the $5 tenders at Walmart and other major grocery chains starting in October, though only in
Apple Maps rolls out 3D view to London, LA, New York and San Francisco
Apple is bringing its 3D maps to more cities within the Apple Maps app, including London, LA, New York and San Francisco. The experience, launching with iOS 15, follows several years of investment in Apple’s mapping platform to make the app more competitive with the market leader, Google Maps
Playing Metroid Dread on the Nintendo Switch OLED Model
It's been a big year for Nintendo news. Between the impossible fever dream of last week's Super Mario movie casting and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Switch's best game, it's easy to lose track of the other big developments from the gaming giant.
Nintendo recently held an in
DCVC partner and Planet Labs co-founder Chris Boshuizen bound for space on Blue Origin’s second human flight
Blue Origin’s second human spaceflight will have a space industry veteran and sector-focused investor on board when it takes off: Dr. Chris Boshuizen, co-founder of Planet Labs and current partner at venture capital firm DCVC. Boshuizen will occupy one of four seats on Blue Origin’s nex
Instagram puts kids version ‘on ice’ after critical backlash
The head of Instagram has just announced that it’s “pausing” a planned version of the social media software aimed at those younger than 13. The development comes hard on the heels of critical reporting in The Wall Street Journal which unearthed internal documents that suggest the