Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:PatSnap, which offers an AI-powered service to help R&D teams analyze the intellectual property landscape, raises $300M Series E led by Tencent and SoftBank — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — PatSnap, which offers a patent …
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:Oregon-based Dutchie, an e-commerce platform for cannabis dispensaries, raised $200M Series C at a $1.7B valuation, up nearly eight times from last August — Dutchie, a nearly four-year-old, Bend, Oregon company that charges cannabis dispensaries a monthly fee to create and run their websites …
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:Facebook says it will publish an annual report detailing its impact on human rights and will establish a fund to support human rights activists and journalists — – Social media giant to give board formal updates on the issue — Company has been criticized for role in Myanmar, Sri Lanka
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:Squarespace raises $300M in a round valuing it at $10B, two months after it filed confidentially to go public via a direct listing or an IPO — Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation.
In previous articles, I discussed: The difference between scientific and religious thinking How we are treating airbags like a religious belief Alternatives that could have been explored In this article, I’m going to explore another errant belief in The Church of Automotive Safety: speed limits. After that, I’m going to explore some better ways regulators…
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Originally published on Future Trends. Welcome to another issue of our new India x Cleantech series! On a monthly basis, we are pulling news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article about the country. Cleantech Investments ReNew Power Proposes $570 Million Investment In Solar Modules, Lithium-Ion Battery ReNew Power…
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In the first part of this series, I covered GM’s history during the Malaise Era. In Part 2, I covered its partial recovery in the 80s, followed by stagnation and complacency in the 90s. Now, I’m going to bring the story to present and explain how this sets GM up for failure with EVs. The…
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Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:SEC charges a California trader for allegedly using misleading claims to promote penny stocks on Twitter to his ~13K followers and then selling his holdings — The agency says social media was used in an alleged pump-and-dump scam. — The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …
William Turton / Bloomberg:Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler’s chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in any way” — Leaked recordings of meetings detail role of Rebekah Mercer at social-media platform — Conservative donor Rebekah Mercer has been writing checks …
Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times:A Florida teen who hacked well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to ask for BTC, netting $100K+ worth, was sentenced to 3 years in a plea deal — Graham Ivan Clark, 18, agreed to plea guilty to fraud charges for a hack of several Twitter accounts last summer.