Category Archives: Tech News

Pitchbook: the median pre-investment valuation for a Series A round in the US has increased sixfold to $37M since 2010 (Kate Clark/The Information)

Kate Clark / The Information: Pitchbook: the median pre-investment valuation for a Series A round [...]

05
Mar
Google says it is speeding up the Chrome release cycle and will ship a new milestone every four weeks instead of the current six weeks (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google says it is speeding up the Chrome release cycle and [...]

04
Mar
Facebook says that on Thursday it will lift the ban on political and social issue ads in the US, imposed after the November election (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios: Facebook says that on Thursday it will lift the ban on [...]

03
Mar
eMarketer: Spotify is on track to reach US monthly podcast listenership of 28.2M by the end of this year and surpass Apple's Podcasts for the first time (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: eMarketer: Spotify is on track to reach US monthly podcast listenership [...]

02
Mar
From NBA highlights on Top Shot to Christie's first-ever sale of digital art, a collage fetching $3M bids, the use of NFTs to certify asset ownership is booming (Reuters)

Reuters: From NBA highlights on Top Shot to Christie’s first-ever sale of digital art, a [...]

01
Mar
Modi's government is abetting a vicious campaign against Indian climate activists simply for using organizing tools like shared Google Docs and WhatsApp groups (Naomi Klein/The Intercept)

Naomi Klein / The Intercept: Modi’s government is abetting a vicious campaign against Indian climate [...]

28
Feb
Sources: UK is preparing to announce a new tech visa and a £375M fund, with matching VC funding, to be made available to some promising tech startups (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: UK is preparing to announce a new tech visa and a £375M [...]

27
Feb
Best Buy says it laid off 5,000 workers and will close more stores as it expects 40% of sales to come from online purchases this year, up from 19% two years ago (Nathaniel Meyersohn/CNN)

Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN: Best Buy says it laid off 5,000 workers and will close [...]

26
Feb
Crypto startup Anchorage, which recently became the first federally chartered digital asset bank, raises $80M Series C led by GIC (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Crypto startup Anchorage, which recently became the first federally chartered [...]

25
Feb
Auditing of algorithms can help address bias but there needs to be industry standards/regulations to hold the auditors or the companies that use them to account (Alfred Ng/The Markup)

Alfred Ng / The Markup: Auditing of algorithms can help address bias but there needs [...]

24
Feb