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high_tech_company: Krackhardt high tech company network
Multiplex network of 3 edge types representing relationships (advice, friendship, and “reports to”) between managers of a high-tech company. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 21 nodes and 312 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who led its engineering teams, says he is leaving the company to launch a venture firm that supports AI research and startups (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/co-founder-of-elon-musks-xai-departs-t…

Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company | TechCrunch
Igor Babuschkin is leaving xAI less than three years after he co-founded the startup with Elon Musk, following a series of scandals at company.

"San Francisco’s Trash Company Marks 35 Years of Stunning Art Made of Recycled Garbage With Free Gallery Opening"
#US #USA #America

San Francisco’s Trash Company Marks 35 Years of Stunning Art Made From Recycled Garbage By Local Artists at Free Gallery Opening
San Francisco’s dump is where Recology Artists-in-Residence scavenge through ‘trash’ to make artwork for traveling exhibit to mark 35 years.

Accused Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter has ties to Middle East and Africa, runs security company (Georgia Worrell/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/accused-minnesota-assassin-vance-boelter-is-tied-to-middle-east-and-africa-runs-security-company/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p6#a250615p6

Storskogen has acquired LEP AG (“LEP”), a Swiss-headquartered company offering digital healthcare documentation solutions… #pflege #nursing

Storskogen acquires leading digital healthcare documentation provider - Storskogen
Storskogen has acquired LEP AG (“LEP”), a Swiss-headquartered company offering digital healthcare documentation solutions. The company generated sales of CHF 6.1 million in 2024, approximately SEK 72 million, with about 80 percent of its revenues stemming from recurring subscriptions.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lambrini Girls:
🎵 Company Culture
#LambriniGirls
https://lambrinigirlsband.bandcamp.com/track/company-culture-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Svm9cZMKVHOII0NECMhiy

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Robotics company Tencore raises $3.7 million in one of the largest known investments in Ukraine defense tech: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/robotics-company-tencore-raises-million.html

If I were a cynic I'd just start some AI-company with a fancy website and big promises hoping to get bought up in tech's brainless acquisition spree.

Meeting at Google: “We haven’t fucked up the Web enough with our AMP shit, but the AI shit is doing pretty good work. What about if we also fuck up RSS?”
What an utterly shit company. I hope the AI hype destroys them.
(Just in case you think they're "just asking questions", they already opened a removal tracker before listening to replies: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334)
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-finds-crack-amazons-c…

Google Finds a Crack in Amazon’s Cloud Dominance
Earlier this year, when The Browser Company was looking for a cloud provider to power the artificial intelligence features in a web browser it was developing, the startup’s leaders asked Amazon Web Services if it could handle the work. Winning this business was important to AWS. The Browser ...

So there's actually an ebike company in... Wisconsin?
#wisconsin #ebike

Quality Built Ebikes
Don't overpay for low quality electric bikes. Choose the Hand Built in Wisconsin with global materials electric bike today. Make biking fun again with Small Town Bike Co. Go further and get outdoors.

How former Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon stole $270,000 from Food52 between 2021 and 2023 by using the company's credit card for luxury clothing and travel (Charlotte Klein/The Cut)
https://www.thecut.com/article/food52-shannon-muldoon-company-…

The Food52 Exec Who Spent $270k on the Company Credit Card
Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon, 38, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employer using the company credit card for clothes and travel.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07d2dyx19zo
The firm says it aims to reduce "accent discrimination" experienced by workers when callers fail to understand them.
But it can also lead to a range of more convincing deepfakes, no?

New AI voice tool trained to copy British regional accents
A UK company says it is better at reproducing a range of accents compared with US or Chinese rivals.

As Palantir continues to expand its influence within the administration,
the Trump administration has given the company the right to surveil  Americans.
In a chilling report,The New York Times notes that the company is already creating
“detailed portraits of Americans based on government data,”
with the Trump administration already seeking
“access to hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases,
including their bank accoun…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

The problem with 'lifetime' subscriptions to anything is of course if the company just shuts down https://www.pcgamesn.com/vpn/bulletvpn-shuts-down

Oh? 😏😏
https://macaw.social/@mergesort/115028469127154952

Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@mergesort@macaw.social)
Attached: 2 images Threads continues to ship one feature after another from the idealized roadmap I left for my coworkers at Twitter when I left the company back in 2022. https://fabisevi.ch/2022/04/01/goodbye-fellow-tweeps

Someone who prefers the company of men, especially in hot tubs 😜
'Reckless': Lifelong diplomats are 'stunned' by Trump's 'obnoxious' new appointee - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-nick-adams/

The geopolitical #aiarmsrace seems largely unimpressed by people proclaiming #LLMs have plateaued and #AGI is never coming.
Such assessments are only relevant for the market, but not so much for count…

This is completely crazy if you think about digital sovereignty....
#spain

Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps
Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.

My company was so kind as to provide me with a frame.work laptop.
It's a great idea and there are definitely nice things to say about but, if I had an idea of just how many little annoyances it was going to cause, I would've gotten a Lenovo.

What would compel someone, with everything happening right now, to trust a tech company to host & protect your personal DNA or health data?
Ignorance? Sloth? Apathy? All 3?
From: @…
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Philippine military company spied upon with new China-linked malware https://therecord.media/philippines-military-company-suspected-china-espionage-eggstreme-malware

Company
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

What a rubbish idea:
Large corporations already hide too much information from their shareholders and the public.
This would make that hiding easier and make company performance more opaque.
It doubles the time that corporate ill deeds and management failures can be hidden.
It is a dumb idea - but coming from one of the great scammers in our corporate world, we should be glad that he did not suggest yearly, or longer, reporting.
"Trump renews push to end co…

Trump renews push to end companies' quarterly reports
The US president urges regulators to adopt a semi-annual schedule for financial reports.

67,000 homes in Ireland still use peat for heating. However, Bord Na Mona stopped extracting peat last year and closed its last peat power station. Now restoring peatlands which in a dried out, denatured state are carbon emitters. Big wind farms now on former extraction sites too. A great deal of historical damage has been done.
#peat

Essentially what Apple is doing as well.
Fun times.
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/14/google-confirms-chromeos-android-merging-single-platform/

Google confirms ChromeOS and Android are being merged into ‘a single platform’
Google's Android head has confirmed that Chrome is being combined with the company's mobile platform after months of rumors.

For any UK tooters, I'd appreciate if you could check your spam boxes and tell me if you get any from a company called 'sweetest treasure'; I have a theory...

Seems like without your own fork of Visual Studio Code, you will not be taken seriously as a technology company anymore. 😄
#Kiro

Ask TUI to Stop Supporting Orca Abuse #AnimalRights

Please ask TUI UK to stop supporting orca abuse
TUI UK continues to sell tickets to SeaWorld, despite being fully aware of the company's cruel treatment of animals for profit.

Atlassian übernimmt The Browser Company für 610 Millionen US-Dollar
Die australische Softwarefirma Atlassian hat das KI-Start-up und Entwickler der Browser Arc und Dia, The Browser Company, übernommen.

1. Data centres consume vast amounts of electricity, and industry which, in NSW, is still beholden to coal.
2. Data centres also consume significant quantities of water.
3. Carbon-neutral is an accounting trick, not an engineered greenhouse gas mitigation strategy.
4. Construction’s one of the most heavily polluting industries.
This whole thing is a greenwash.

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal - Neowin https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-developers-account-without-warning-rejects-appeal/

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
A LibreOffice developer has shared his experience of having his Microsoft account banned, and how the company has been uncooperative in helping him recover it.

From Leadnow
urgent petition from Leadnow supporter Leslie, who is calling on the federal government to immediately end its contracts with GardaWorld — the Canadian company staffing a new ICE immigration detention facility in the U.S. called Alligator Alcatraz.
GardaWorld — a Canadian-based “private security company” — has million-dollar contracts to execute Trump's racist and inhumane immigration regime, which kidnaps people, tears families apart, and denies people due proc…

Summary of today's dreams:
1. I changed my shorts but forgot to replace the paper towels in my pockets. I wouldn't have thought my brain would treat this as such a #nightmare. I mean, lack of paper towels, not fresh shorts. The terror when you put your hand in the pocket, and it's empty.
2. I forgot to put my garbage out last night. It was around 7 AM (having precise dreams is important), it was raining and I was hurrying to put them out, worrying it's too late already. Then, I've discovered there's a huge dumpster in front of my gate, filled to the brim with loose cat litter. And I was thinking, the garbage company won't take such a tonnage of loose litter like that.
#dream

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Children and Company:
🎵 Revolting Children from Matilda the Musical
#ChildrenandCompany
https://open.spotify.com/track/3QxmmtjD7ZlWRLTcOHI4Qx

Transcranial focused ultrasound for identifying the neural substrate of conscious perception https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08517 Indeed I see long-term potential for phased-array tFUS as a visual prosthesis for the late-blind. The company Nudge is developing a phased-array tFUS helmet.

Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception
Identifying what aspects of brain activity are responsible for conscious perception remains one of the most challenging problems in science. While progress has been made through psychophysical studies employing EEG and fMRI, research would greatly benefit from improved methods for stimulating the brain in healthy human subjects. Traditional techniques for neural stimulation through the skull, including electrical or magnetic stimulation, suffer from coarse spatial resolution and have limited ab…

board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…

I think the view from 10,000 feet for me is that all tech tries to interpose itself between two human beings and then extract value. Whether it's Uber, Airbnb, social media or Vision Pro/smart glasses and now earbuds.
Once a tech company is the filter through which we sense the world it's a next level amount of power that they will have over us.
The next thing will be that Apple thinks they deserve a 30% cut of that sale that you made with the local merchant.

Opendoor's new chairman Keith Rabois says "I don't know what most" of its 1400 employees do and the company doesn't need "more than 200 of them" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/opendoors-

Opendoor board chair Rabois says company is 'bloated,' needs to cut 85% of workforce
Keith Rabois was named chairman of Opendoor this week and the company, which he co-founded, hired former Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as its new CEO.

Sounds like you can now pay to have all your data sent through Israeli intelligence if that’s what does it for you.
#expressVPN #VPN #israel

> "The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags"
We're living in the backstory lore of a satirical 90s videogame.
https://www.theverge.com/x-ai/775411/grok-xai-safety-musk-warren-hegseth-dod

The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags
Every AI company should be worried about safety. But xAI and Grok should be most concerned. Senator Warren sent Pete Hegseth a letter to that effect.

¿Corrupción? ¿Donde?
@… https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/114857399291118861

I posted elsewhere, but sharing here, too.
I got email from someone whose surname I recognize.
I asked if she was related to the President of the first company I ever worked for. She's his granddaughter.
I shared with her how kind he was when I was a young, entry-level "Specialist" in my first corporate job. She was gratified. Her aunt remembers me from those days.
35 years ago, and I remember it now.
Be nice to someone. It might matter for a long …

OpenAI is preparing to launch an AI-powered jobs platform that could place the company in direct competition with LinkedIn, even though Microsoft, LinkedIn’s parent company, remains its largest financial backer.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/o

OpenAI unveils jobs platform to challenge LinkedIn
OpenAI is preparing to launch an AI-powered jobs platform that could place the company in direct competition with LinkedIn, even though Microsoft, LinkedIn’s parent company, ...

"AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other f…

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

OpenAI says its nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/openai-says-nonprofit-parent-to-own-stake-in-compa…

OpenAI says nonprofit parent will own equity stake in company of over $100 billion
OpenAI said that its nonprofit parent will continue to oversee the company and have a very large stake in its future.

Q&A with BBC Commercial CEO Tom Fussell on the company's record revenue, BritBox's international growth, BBC's paywall in the US, YouTube, and more (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

A Chat With BBC Commercial’s CEO on ‘Bluey,’ a News Paywall, YouTube and ‘Doctor Who’
Tom Fussell also touts BritBox’s success, particularly in North America, and role in getting series made.

"NZ Post is the latest company to drop its climate targets – another sign business is struggling to decarbonise"
#NewZealand #Climate #Business

NZ Post is the latest company to drop its climate targets – another sign business is struggling to decarbonise
A global initiative to encourage businesses to commit to science-backed climate targets may merely be giving the impression of progress.

In recent months, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father, who complained about a UnitedHealth subsidiary.
In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the company’s health insurance division,
to argue that intense criticism of the company risks inciting further violence.

UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics
The company has invoked the murder of an executive last year to complain about coverage in news outlets, on streaming services and on social media.

Ask TUI to Stop Supporting Orca Abuse #AnimalRights

Please ask TUI UK to stop supporting orca abuse
TUI UK continues to sell tickets to SeaWorld, despite being fully aware of the company's cruel treatment of animals for profit.

Crypto investor Justin Sun files a lawsuit against Bloomberg, seeking to block the media company from publishing a detailed breakdown of his crypto holdings (Vivian Nguyen/Crypto Briefing)
https://cryptobriefing.com/justin-sun-lawsuit-bloomberg-crypto/

Justin Sun sues Bloomberg over plan to publish confidential crypto holdings
Justin Sun lawsuit aims to stop Bloomberg from publishing confidential crypto holdings, alleging breach of agreement and security risks.

From Canada's National Observer
Whistleblower Exposes How AI Fuels Big Oil Growth
"We realized we were basically working for an oil company," said Holly Alpine, a former Microsoft employee who quit her dream job on the company's sustainability team when she realized the company, like most tech companies, is helping fossil fuel companies extract more oil and gas."
#fossilfuels

Whistleblower exposes how AI fuels Big Oil growth
"We realized we were basically working for an oil company," said Holly Alpine, a former Microsoft employee who quit her dream job on the company's sustainability team when she realized the company, like most tech companies, is helping fossil fuel companies extract more oil and gas.

"Meta teams with XGS Energy to build a 150 MW geothermal power plant"
#Meta #Energy #Geothermal

Meta teams with XGS Energy to build a 150 MW geothermal power plant | TechCrunch
Meta is the latest tech company to warm to geothermal energy, announcing on Thursday a deal with startup XGS Energy to develop a 150 megawatt geothermal power plant in New Mexico. 

Ukraine, US company to co-produce hundreds of thousands of drones in 2025, Zelensky announces: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/ukraine-us-company-to-coproduce.html

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata

Indian IT services company Infosys agrees to take a 75% stake in Versent Group, a cloud services provider wholly owned by Australia's Telstra Group, for ~$153M (Hritam Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Spotify adds new features for free users globally, allowing them to search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs in Q2 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/spotify-will-now-let-free-users-pic…

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch
Spotify is adding new features for free customers that let them pick and play tracks.

Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must give investors short-term results to get permission for long-term investments, such as its AI ambitions (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/meta-earnings-meta-turns-the-dial-soci…

Facebook is Dead; Long Live Meta
Meta delivered blowout earnings the same quarter that Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on AI; I don’t think it was a coincidence.

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Robert F Kennedy Jr, promoted a company whose meals contain ultra-processed ingredients – which he has repeatedly railed against
– on his “Make America healthy again” tour.
The US health secretary appeared at an enormous food plant in Oklahoma for a company called "Mom’s Meals",
which makes 1.5m
“medically tailored” meals each week and ships them all over the country.
Companies including Mom’s Meals have been criticized for hijacking the “food is medici…

Tubi expands its partnerships with MrBeast and other creators, and hires former TikTok executive Kudzi Chikumbu as VP of creator partnerships (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/tubi-expands-m…

Tubi Expands Partnerships With MrBeast, Other Creators
The company has also hired TikTok executive Kudzi Chikumbu to manage partnerships with creators on the platform.

Accenture plans to acquire Australian cybersecurity company CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital; the deal reportedly values CyberCX at more than AU$1B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-tel…

Accenture Acquires Australian Cybersecurity Firm CyberCX
Accenture Plc is buying Australian cybersecurity firm CyberCX, its largest acquisition to date in the sector that will boost operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

China approves Synopsys' acquisition of simulation software company Ansys, after the US lifted restrictions on chip design software sales to China (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-grants-conditional-approval-syno…

BBC Commercial reports 2024-25 revenue of £2.2B, up from £1.9B in 2023-24, with BBC Studios EBITDA up 11% YoY to £225M and media and streaming revenues up 43% (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/07/15/bbc-commercial-delivers-…

BBC Commercial delivers record revenues
BBC Commercial, the media company which is part of the BBC Group, has released its annual results as part of the BBC’s Annual Report and Accounts, marking a y

high_tech_company: Krackhardt high tech company network
Multiplex network of 3 edge types representing relationships (advice, friendship, and “reports to”) between managers of a high-tech company. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 21 nodes and 312 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://

Sources: Lambda is in talks for a funding round that could value the cloud services company between $4B and $5B ahead of a potential IPO by the end of 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/nvidia-b…

Gannett is launching a morning newscast, Connecting America, on its USA Today streaming channel and on YouTube, on August 18; it will air weekdays 7am-9am ET (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/usa-today-morning-show-connecting-america/

USA Today to launch morning newscast on streaming channel
A new morning show called "Connecting America" will launch on USA Today's FAST channel, the company announced on Thursday.

Milan-based Bending Spoons raised €500M in debt led by JPMorgan Chase to buy more software businesses; the company raised $155M at a $2.6B valuation in 2024 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Starz, which split from Lionsgate in May, reports Q2 revenue down 8% YoY to $319.7M, a net loss of $42.5M, and US streaming subscribers down 120K QoQ to 12.2M (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/starz-subscribers-earnings-q2-lio…

Starz Q2 Revenue Drop 8%, Streaming Subs Down After Lionsgate Split
Starz saw an 8% drop in revenue for its April 1-June 30 earnings, the now-standalone media company reported Thursday.

An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the tests she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was imprisoned, and more (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/13/binance-yi-he/

How Binance’s Yi He became ‘the most powerful woman in crypto’—and steered the company past its biggest ordeal
In 2023, Yi He had to face down an enormous business challenge at Binance—one that was very personal as well.

Source: StubHub now aims to hold its IPO in September after pausing plans in April; it updated its IPO prospectus, reporting Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to $397.6M (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/stubhub-ipo-back-on-for-september-a…

StubHub IPO is back on for September after ticketing company delayed plans on tariff concerns
StubHub updated its IPO prospectus on Monday, effectively restarting the process to go public.

Trump family's World Liberty Financial is using a publicly listed company, ALT5 Sigma, to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/11/world-liberty-financ…

Trump family crypto business announces $1.5 billion treasury company for World Liberty token
The announcement follows a week of reaching out to investors to contribute cash.

Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content", in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content
Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.

Berlin-based Payrails, whose platform helps enterprises accept payments, issue payouts, and more, raised a $32M Series A, taking its total funding to $52.8M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/12/payrails-ra

Payrails raises $32M Series A to boost payment performance for global enterprises
A global payment software company Payrails, has raised $32 million in Series A funding to further its mission of enabling enterprises to take control of their payment operations.  Founded by former fintech leaders from Delivery Hero, Payrails’ founding team brings deep experience building global, scalable financial infrastructure. With the continued backing of leading technology investors, Payrails is strengthening its position as a category-defining payment platform for large enterprises. …

Sources: Perplexity talked with The Browser Co. and Brave about buying them, offering ~$1B for Brave; OpenAI also discussed an acquisition with The Browser Co. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/wild-chrome-bid-perplexity-hunting-bro…

Before Wild Chrome Bid, Perplexity Had Been Hunting for Browsers
Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google’s Chrome, the world’s largest internet browser, for a price amounting to nearly double its valuation. While that acquisition seems unlikely to transpire, the company has been on the ...

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says he expects the planned separation of the company to be completed by April 2026 (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/warner-bros-discovery-ceo-david-zaslav-separation-in-april-12…

WBD CEO David Zaslav Sees Company Split In April
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said he expects the planned separation of the company to be completed by April of 2026.

Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (The Economic Times)
https://ec…

Cred raises fresh funds from GIC, others; valuation cut by 45% to $3.5 billion
The fintech major was valued at $6.4 billion in 2022 during its last major fund infusion. The current fund infusion is in the form of primary capital, which means that existing investors have not sold any shares in this round. The drop in valuation was in line with the company's plans to list in India over the next two years, people in the know said.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan tells employees the company is engaging with the Trump Administration to address concerns about him and "ensure they have the facts" (Lip-Bu Tan/Intel)
https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/my-commitment-to-you-and-our-company

My commitment to you and our company
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees.

Virtru, which offers data security services to clients like the US DOD and Salesforce, raised a $50M Series D led by Iconiq Capital at a $500M valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/11/exclusi

Exclusive: Virtru, data security company, raises $50 million Series D as valuation hits $500 million
Virtru has recently raised a $50 million Series D, led by Iconiq Capital, Fortune has exclusively learned.

The Browser Company launches a $20-per-month Dia Pro subscription plan, providing unlimited access to the web browser's AI-powered chat and skills features (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/the-b…

The Browser Company launches a $20 monthly subscription for its AI-powered browser | TechCrunch
The Browser Company has its first paid plan in form of $20 per month Dia Pro.

A New Hampshire court rejected TikTok's request to dismiss the state AG's suit accusing the company of using manipulative design features aimed at kids (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/tiktok-lawsuit-kids.html

TikTok loses bid to dismiss lawsuit alleging its 'addictive design' exploits kids
President Donald Trump granted ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, a third extension on time to sell off its U.S. TikTok operations.

Sources: Trump's World Liberty Financial is seeking to raise $1.5B to launch a publicly traded crypto treasury company that would hold its WLFI token and cash (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/08/donald-trump-wo…

Trump crypto firm plans launch of public company that will hold family token
World Liberty Financial’s latest project would mimic other public firms that have amassed Bitcoin in hopes of boosting their share price.

Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/windsurfs-ceo-goes-to-google-openais-acquisition-falls-apart/

Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart | TechCrunch
Notably, Google is not taking a stake in Windsurf and will not have any control over the company.

In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says a "culture of fear", with performance reviews and layoffs, is spreading like "a metastatic cancer" (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me…

Meta AI Researcher Warns of ‘Metastatic Cancer’ Afflicting Company Culture
Over the past month, Meta Platforms has overhauled its stumbling efforts in artificial intelligence by making a head-spinning series of hires of leaders and researchers from outside the company. But a key question has lingered: Why has Meta struggled so badly in AI that it’s injecting so much ...

Shares of transit software company Via closed at $49.51 in their NYSE debut, above the $46 IPO price, giving Via a market cap of ~$3.9B, after raising $492.9M (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/via-s…

Via shrugs off tepid open to end first day of trading slightly above IPO price | TechCrunch
Transit tech software startup Via had its IPO debut on Friday, starting at below offering price before rising to close at nearly $50.

Bullish shares jump 143% to $90 in the company's NYSE debut, up from the IPO price of $37; sources say the IPO was more than 20 times oversubscribed (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/crypto-firm…

Bullish shares closed up 84% at $68 in the company's NYSE debut, above the IPO price of $37, giving Bullish a market value of $9.9B based on outstanding shares (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/…

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Advent International agrees to acquire and take private Nasdaq-listed Sapiens International, an Israel-based insurance software company, for $2.5B in cash (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/insurance-softwa…

Mumbai-based online pharmacy Truemeds, which offers generic alternatives to branded drugs, raised $85M led by Accel at a $400M valuation, up from $110M in 2023 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/trueme…

Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company's generic drug strategy | TechCrunch
Truemeds has taken a different route from other Indian online pharmacies — and it has helped the startup double its revenue.

Appcharge, which runs a DTC platform for game publishers, raised a $58M Series B led by IVP, taking its total funding to $89M, and powers stores for 100 games (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-mobile-games-sales-platform-appcharge-rai…

Mobile games sales platform Appcharge raises $58m
The Israeli company has developed a direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform for mobile game publishers to maximize profits through owning player relationships.

Fractal Analytics, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, files for an IPO in Mumbai to raise about $560M, and could value the company at over $3.5B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Analysis: Nvidia has the biggest weight in the S&P 500 of any individual stock since 1981 and the highest P/E as the index's top stock since Microsoft in 1999 (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/nvidia-i

Nvidia is dominating the S&P 500 more than any company in at least 44 years
Its weight in the benchmark US stock index has reached unparalleled heights, based on data from Apollo Global Management going back to 1981.

Honor Education, an e-learning service for individuals and enterprises that was founded by former Dean of Apple University Joel Podolny, raised a $38M Series A (Derek Newton/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2025/07/08/honor-educ…

Honor Education Raises $38 Million Series A
The continuing education company Honor Education has raised $38 million in a Series A funding round.

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures (Amit Chowdhry/Pulse 2.0)
https://pulse2.com/higgsfield-50-million-series-a-raised-to-transform-ai-video-creation/

Higgsfield: $50 Million Series A Raised To Transform AI Video Creation
Higgsfield.ai, a rapidly growing company specializing in AI for video creation, has announced the successful close of its $50 million Series A funding round. The investment was led by GFT Ventures and joined by a group of firms, including BroadLight Capital, NextEquity Partners, AI Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Alpha Square Group, and other strategic backers. 

Apple says COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, and Sabih Khan, Apple's SVP of Operations, will take over much of his role later this month (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/08/apple-says-coo-jeff-william…

Apple says COO Jeff Williams will retire from company later this year
Apple said Jeff Williams, the company's COO, will take on a new role overseeing the company's design team along with the Apple Watch and health initiatives.

France-based Scintil Photonics, which is developing integrated photonic system-on-chips for AI infrastructure, raised a $58M Series B led by Yotta and NGP (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/09/09/scintil-photonics-secure…

Scintil Photonics secured $58M to scale integrated photonics for AI factories
Grenoble-based Scintil Photonics, a company developing integrated Photonic System-on-Chip (PSoC) solutions for AI infrastructure, has closed a $58 million Series B round. The funding will drive global hiring, accelerate production, and expand its international footprint as it launches the industry’s first single-chip DWDM light engine. Built on its proprietary SHIP™ (Scintil Heterogeneous Integration Photonics) process, Scintil’s technology integrates lasers, photodiodes, and modula…

What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September 17 at 5pm PT: "Hypernova" smart glasses with a display, Meta AI and Llama updates, and more (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/what

What to expect at Meta Connect 2025: 'Hypernova' smart glasses, AI and the metaverse
Meta Connect, the company's annual event dedicated to all things AR, VR, AI and the metaverse is just days away. And once again, it seems like it will be a...

Circle announces it will offer 10M shares to the public, of which 8M will be sold by existing stockholders; CRCL drops 6% after hours (Christina Cheddar Berk/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/circle-shares-fall-after-s…

Circle shares fall after stablecoin issuer says it will offer 10 million shares
Circle Internet Group shares fell after the company said it would offer 10 million Class A common shares.