Mobile testing platform Kobiton raises $14M, acquires competitor Mobile Labs
Atlanta-based Kobiton, a mobile testing platform that allows developers and QA teams to test their apps on real devices, both on their own desks and through the company’s cloud-based service, today announced that it has acquired Mobile Labs, another Atlanta-based mobile testing service.
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Review: Microsoft’s Xbox Series X is ahead of its time
Arriving seven years after the Xbox One first launched, the new Microsoft Xbox Series X console lands in a different world and a very different Xbox ecosystem. Microsoft is embracing subscription bundling with its Game Pass service and cloud-streaming with xCloud; nevertheless, they are still commi
UK’s ICO faces legal action after closing adtech complaint with nothing to show for it
The UK’s data watchdog is facing a legal challenge after it took the decision to quietly close a complaint against the adtech industry’s high velocity background trading of personal data.
The legal challenge was reported earlier by Politico.
The original complaint —
Juggle secures $2.1M to expand its ‘flexible work’ SaaS marketplace for senior execs
As we've seen, some startups are pivoting to re-model themselves for the radically different world of the COVID-19 pandemic. But others literally turned out to have a business model which, although they could never have realized it at the time, might have been (almost) tailor-made for this era.
Watch SpaceX launch a GPS satellite for the US Space Force live
SpaceX is set to launch the U.S. Space Force’s GPS III Space Vehicle 04 today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This launch was all set to take off back at the beginning of October, but was scrubbed in the final seconds. Today’s launch window spans 15 minutes, and opens
How growth investing grew so big so quickly
It was 2013, and I'd been camping out in Uber's San Francisco offices for weeks. Our team wanted to invest in the company on behalf of my private equity firm, but was utterly daunted by its “eye-popping” $1 billion valuation.
Back then, unicorns were a rarity and that was a far steeper
Singapore-based digital business assistant Osome raises $3 million
"attachment_2069100" aria-describedby="" style="width: 1024px">Osome's founding team: Anton Roslov, Victor Lysenko and Konstantin Lange. Image Credits: Osome
Osome, a Singapore-headquartered business assistant app that digitizes accounting and compliance tasks, has raised $3 million. An extensio
Pivoting in the pandemic, Citysocializer relaunches as a 'Get Your Guide for virtual events'
Citysocializer, previously a platform for promoting real-world socializing in cities, has relaunched, becoming something akin to a “Get Your Guide for virtual events”. Just as other startups have pivoted to ‘lean in” to current circumstances, this startup has turned its atte
Ambani’s Reliance Retail raises $1.3 billion from PIF
The Public Investment Fund, which has this year invested $1.5 billion in Mukesh Ambani’s telecom venture Jio Platforms and more than half a billion dollars in his fiber-optic business, has returned to back yet another empire built by India’s richest man.
The sovereign wealth fund is inv
WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages that disappear after 7 days
Facebook recently announced that WhatsApp passed the whopping mestone of 100 blion messages sent per day, but not everyone wants those chats to stick around forever. Now, Facebook’s wdly popular messaging app with 2 blion users is adding a feature to give people more control on how their word
Vivid Money raises $17.6 million for its European challenger bank
German fintech startup Vivid Money has raised a $17.6 million Series A funding round (€15 million). Ribbit Capital is leading the investment. Today's funding round gives Vivid Money a valuation of $117 million (€100 million).
Vivid Money is quite a young startup, as the company started acce
ByteDance to pump $170 million into e-book reader Zhangyue
While short videos are what drive ByteDance’s revenues and give the Chinese startup international recognition, the firm is expanding into numerous new areas like other tech giants to fuel growth. It’s dabbled in enterprise software and online learning, and the news came this week that B
If elected, Biden commits to rejoin climate accord US just abandoned
On the same day that the U.S. officially withdrew from the global pact to reduce emissions that cause climate change, presidential contender Joe Biden committed that he would rejoin the Paris Agreement if elected.
In a tweet late Wednesday, Biden wrote, “Today, the Trump Administration offici
DJI's pint-sized Mavic Mini gets camera and connection upgrades
We dug DJI's Mavic Mini when the drone arrived last year. As Matt noted in his review, “It packs everything critical to be a quality drone. It has a good camera, good range and a good controller. It holds up well in the wind and is quick enough to be fun.” Today, DJI improves two of those t