NASA partners with SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Blue Origin and others for test flights and research
NASA has announced 20 new partnerships with commercial space outfits, among them collaborations with SpaceX, Blue Origin and Rocket Lab. While no money will change hands, NASA will dedicate millions in personnel and other support to these test launches and developing technologies.
The partnerships
Adobe acquires marketing workflow startup Workfront for $1.5B
Adobe just announced that it is acquiring marketing workflow management startup Workfront for $1.5 billion. Bloomberg first reported the sale earlier today.
Workfront was founded back in 2001, making it a bit long in the tooth for a private company that has raised $375 million, according to Crunchb
Indian logistics startup Xpressbees raises $110 million
Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world's second largest internet market.
The Pune-headquartered startup's Series E financing round
Bumble’s new feature prevents bad actors from using ‘unmatch’ to hide from their victims
Dating app Bumble announced today it’s changing how its “unmatch” feature works in an effort to better prioritize user safety. The change will make it more difficult for a bad actor or harasser to use the app’s unmatch feature in order to avoid having their conversation repo
Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it?
Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. While the gender gap in other areas (such as the number of women entering tech in general) may be on the right path, this disparity in funding seems to be stagnant. There has been little m
Hyundai reportedly in talks to buy SoftBank-owned Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics could be set to change hands once again, according to a new report from Bloomberg that cited “people familiar with the matter.”
The deal would make Korean automaker Hyundai the third company in seven years to own the robotics firm, following sales to Google and SoftBank Group. B
Beyond Meat shares rise on news that it collaborated with McDonald’s on the McPlant options
After tumbling earlier today, Beyond Meat shares are shooting upward on news that the company did indeed collaborate with McDonald’s on its new McPlant vegetarian menu.
McDonald’s made waves this morning when it announced its new McPlant, and the company’s statement, which said th
Decrypted: Grayshift raises $47M, Apple bugs under attack, video game maker hacked
The election is over, but not without a hitch or two. Some voters in Georgia and Ohio had to use paper ballots after hand sanitizer leaked into voting machines — an unexpected casualty of the pandemic. And a slew of robocalls across a number of swing states urged voters to “stay safe and st
The PlayStation 4 will be able to play PlayStation 5 games remotely
Well, isn’t this a nice little surprise? This morning some PlayStation 4 owners are reporting the sudden and unexpected arrival of a new “PS5 Remote Play” app. While the app doesn’t do much yet (the PS5 isn’t out yet, after all), it seems meant to let you keep a PlaySt
5 UX design research mistakes you can stop making today
A recent article in Entrepreneur magazine listed “inadequate testing” as the top reason why startups fail. Inadequate testing essentially means inadequate or sub-par user research that leads to poor UX design which, not surprisingly, usually ends in failure. While working with startups
‘Free speech’ social network Parler tops app store rankings following Biden’s election win
Chafing at new misinformation safeguards and a lost election, dejected Trump supporters flocked to the alternative social network Parler over the weekend. Parler’s homepage promises that users can “Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being ‘deplatformed’
Get fast money for your space startup at TC Sessions Space this December
One of the most challenging aspects of running your space startup is access to capital. At TC Sessions Space (December 16-17), we’re bringing together some of the top space funding programs to help founders discover how they can tap into grant money to fuel their startups. Each grant program
Early-bird savings ends this Friday for TC Sessions Space 2020
Could there be a tech sector more thrilling and daunting than space? We think not. If that's your orbit, don't miss TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17. It's where you'll find the industry's greatest thinkers, makers, shakers and investors.
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MSCHF’s Push Party raises an unconventional seed round at a $200 million valuation
As part of its latest stunt, MSCHF, a venture-backed creative studio that’s smarter and more audacious than most, is poking a little fun at the venture industry itself and perhaps publications like technewss too. The startup has spun out a rather simplistic app into a separate company and ra