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Music streamer Deezer is going public via SPAC at a $1.1B valuation
A European music streamer, Deezer is going public via a SPAC deal, valuing the Spotify competitor at $1.1 billion. Deezer will merge with the “blank-check” company I2PO, which is headed by former WarnerMedia executive Iris Knobloch. Founded in 2007, the company previously tried to IPO in 2015, only to reverse course and raise Series E […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Youth sports app TeamSnap launches a new system designed for clubs and leagues
TeamSnap, a web service for managing recreational and competitive sports teams and groups, announced the launch of its all-in-one multi-program management system for youth sports organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
D&D Beyond comes under the wing of Wizards of the Coast in $146 million deal
The parent company of Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast will buy D&D Beyond, the role-playing game’s popular digital suite of tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Peloton is increasing its subscription fees starting June 1
Peloton announced today that it’s increasing the price of its subscription fees in the United States and Canada. Starting June 1, the cost of the company’s all-access plan fee is increasing from $39 to $44 in the United States and from $49 to $55 in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Swiggy backs bike taxi platform Rapido in $180 million funding
Swiggy has led a $180 million financing round into bike taxi startup Rapido as the Indian food delivery giant looks to broaden its fleet network across the country, the two firms said on Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As post-covid food distribution digitizes, Cerve raises $2M for wholesaler platform
As we found during the pandemic, food and beverage distribution is critical, but most food wholesalers’ sales remain manually operated. Post-covid, food wholesalers are fast digitizing their operations, but many still rely on legacy backend systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tinder adds a ‘Festival Mode’ for making connections ahead of concerts and events
Tinder today is launching a new feature called Festival Mode designed to help users connect ahead of their plans to attend concerts or larger music festivals, like The Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Stagecoach, EDC Las Vegas, and others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Moot channels $18M for a platform and toolkit to power e-commerce strategies for brands
E-commerce today is played out wherever a consumer sees something and wants it — be it on a company’s site or app, a social media feed, a marketplace, a search, or an advert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M
Nursing shortages were a problem well before our hospitals were rocked by a pandemic. Two years in and overloaded systems have further contributed to burnout, stress and other factors plaguing the people we rely on for our own well-being. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Prelude raises $24M to help organizations harden their cybersecurity defenses
Prelude, a Washington D.C-based startup that helps organizations harden their cyber defenses through the use of autonomous red-teaming, has secured $24 million in Series A funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Miso Robotics brings a new coffee monitoring system to Panera
Miso made a name for itself with the hamburger-cooking robot, Flippy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Elon Musk is not joining Twitter board, CEO Parag Agrawal says
Elon Musk is not joining Twitter’s board, the social network’s chief executive Parag Agrawal said, in a surprising reversal following last week’s announcement that the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive had been appointed to the panel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Perforce adds infrastructure automation tooling with Puppet acquisition
Perforce Software has been building developer tools since 1995, a long time in the tech world. The company was acquired by Clearlake Capital in 2018, and over the last several years has been modernizing and expanding its reach through acquisition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Brilliant Planet is running algae-farms to pull carbon out of the air
Sure you can run machines to decarbonize the air, but where’s the fun in that when you can invite mother nature to do the work for you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter launches improved alt text accessibility features globally
Sometimes, new Twitter features can be divisive — we’ve made our feelings clear about the edit button, which is apparently in the works. But we can (hopefully) all agree that simple accessibility features are a good thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Goldman Sachs joins other investors in $88M round for web3 and blockchain security firm CertiK
CertiK, a Web3 and blockchain security company, has raised $88 million in its latest round, bringing its valuation to $2 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Built Robotics raises another $64M to make construction equipment autonomous
If you’re still wrapping your head around the idea of self-driving cars, get ready for something that might seem even wilder: self-driving construction equipment exists, and it’s already out there digging away on job sites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Visa unveils first innovation hub in Africa to drive product development
Global digital payments giant Visa has opened up an innovation studio in Kenya, its first in Africa and sixth globally, after posts in Dubai, London, Miami, San Francisco and Singapore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rivian picks up EV production in Q1, on track to hit annual target
Rivian produced 2,553 vehicles in the first quarter, putting it on course to meet its production goal of 25,000 EVs this year, the company said Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Amazon lines up dozens of launches to put thousands of Kuiper satellites in orbit
Amazon is finally taking decisive action on its Kuiper communications satellite constellation, securing the rights to as many as 83 launches from United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, and of course Blue Origin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Peloton Guide is now available for $295
Late last year, Peloton announced Guide. The set-top system is an effort to reach a broader slice of the market with a lower cost alternative to its line of bikes and treadmills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
UPS partners with Jumia to expand delivery network in Africa
Global logistics and package delivery company UPS will leverage Jumia’s network across Africa to grow its reach across the continent, following a new partnership announced today that gives it access to the e-commerce firm’s last mile delivery infrastructure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Musk takes a $3B bite out of Twitter; now the Tesla mogul has a 9.2% share of the social network
He’s used Twitter to poll people apparently to make major business decisions. He’s had his hand figuratively slapped (more than once) by regulators over how he’s used the social platform to potentially manipulate the markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Biden’s answer to high gas prices is to boost U.S. battery production
President Joe Biden will trigger the Defense Production Act to secure U.S. sources of critical minerals and materials like lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and manganese that are used to make batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
GoPro’s new battery grip triples your action-cam shooting time
You just know your battery will kick the bucket at the worst possible time, right when you’ve perfected your sick, hella nar-nar skateboard tricks, bruh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mojo Vision takes another step toward AR contact lenses with new prototype
We’ve known Mojo Vision’s journey to market was going to be a long and deliberate one since we saw an early prototype in Las Vegas a number of CESes ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tumblr expands its tip jar feature to enable blog-level tipping
Tumblr is expanding its tip jar feature by introducing blog-level tipping for its iOS and web applications, the company announced on Wednesday. The company rolled out its tip jar feature last month allowing users to leave tips on posts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dyson is betting you’ll want to strap an air purifier to your face
Air. I love it, you love it. We’re all out here walking around in it all day, filling our lungs and blood with the stuff. We can’t get enough of it. But that beautiful, wonderful, life-saving air that you, me and your pet chinchilla all need is bad sometimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Can robotic hives help save the world’s bees?
Here’s a bummer of a statistic for you: Around 30% of bee colonies disappear every year. Scientists coined the phrase “colony collapse disorder” (CCD) to describe what’s been a devastating ongoing trend in the world’s bee population. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Celonis pushes into Microsoft ecosystem with $100M Process Analytics Factory acquisition
Celonis moves into Microsoft ecosystem with Process Analytics Factory acquisition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After six months of invite-only sales, Amazon Glow is now available to all in the U.S.
Back in September of last year, Amazon announced a curious looking device called the Amazon Glow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Treeswift is using drones to monitor forests
Over the past decade, drones have become an increasingly important tool for forest monitoring. They’re a fast and effective way to collect a lot of data in one go, without upsetting the natural balance too much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple TV+ becomes the first streaming service to win a Best Picture Oscar with “CODA”
Apple TV+ has beat out Netflix to become the first streaming service to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, with “Coda’s” triumph. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Former TikTok content moderators file lawsuit over ‘psychological trauma’
A pair of former TikTok content reviewers is suing the company, alleging that it failed to adequately support them as they engaged in the deeply disturbing work of removing objectionable videos from the social network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Polestar’s long range single motor Polestar 2 arrives in the US
Following the release of its dual-motor variant late last year, Polestar announced that the 270-mile long range, single-motor version of its Polestar 2 EV is now available for sale in the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Samsara Eco wants to help end global plastic crisis with enzyme-based technology
Global plastic use is expected to double by 2040, with most plastic sent to landfills and only 13 percent recycled. According to CIEL (Center for International Environmental Law), plastic production and incineration could produce 2.8 gigatons of carbon dioxide every year by 2050. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Coinbase makes India push with support for UPI payments
Coinbase is beginning to add support for payment instruments UPI and IMPS in India, making its crypto exchange broadly functional in the world’s second largest internet market for the first time in years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Astronomer ready for its next mission after Datakin acquisition, $213M Series C
The once scrappy company is scrappy no more and poised to build new features around what it's already done with Airflow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tome livens up slide decks with real-time data, flexible layouts
The company thinks you should be spending less time trying to adapt your content to a presentation page and more time on storytelling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Podcasters, get ready to find out how many followers you have on Apple Podcasts
Apple Podcasts is rolling out new features to incentivize podcasters to offer paid subscriptions to listeners on the app. One of those features will — for better or for worse — reveal to podcasters in their private analytics dashboard how many people follow them on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Talkspace-owned Lasting launches new ‘Parenting Guide’ app, its latest self-guided advice service
Lasting, which is owned by mobile therapy company Talkspace, has launched a new app aimed at parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gensyn applies a token to distributed computing for AI developers, raises $6.5M
For self-driving cars and other applications developed using AI, you need what’s known as ‘deep learning’, the core concepts of which emerged in the ‘50s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lune offers an API to calculate carbon emissions at checkout
Meet Lune, a new startup that wants to expose CO2 emissions calculations so that customers are better informed when they purchase something online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sleek wants to be the last shopping check-out form you ever fill out
Sleek is developing a browser extension enabling one-click checkout and cash-back savings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Porsche is turning its mid-engine 718 roadster into an EV by 2025
The Porsche 718, a mid-engine roadster that injects the automaker’s motorsports’ history into a modern-day package, is going all electric by 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Getir is now worth nearly $12 billion after raising another $768 million
Instant delivery startup Getir has announced that it has closed a new $768 million Series E founding round. Following this deal, the company has reached a valuation of $11.8 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
MeliBio’s honey production, minus the bee, will have you buzzing
The company is making real honey with precision fermentation and plant science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Instagram rolls out new safety tools for parents
Meta announced a new set of tools designed to protect young users on Wednesday, an overdue response to widespread criticism that the company doesn’t do enough to protect its most vulnerable users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Liveblocks grabs $5 million for its real-time collaboration API
Liveblocks has raised a $5 million seed round. The startup lets you turn a regular web app into a multiplayer product with high-level hosted APIs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meta faces prosecution in South Africa for alleged antitrust breach
Meta is facing prosecution in South Africa, after the country’s competition regulator, the Competition Commission, found as uncompetitive its intention to block the government’s startup GovChat and #LetsTalk from using its WhatsApp Business API. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices