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January 1, 2025news

PitchBook: the number of VCs investing in US startups fell from a peak of 8,315 in 2021 to 6,175 in 2024; 9 firms raised 50%+ of the $71B raised by VCs in 2024 (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Risk-averse financial institutions concentrate money on biggest Silicon Valley VCs in trend that threatens smaller groups Read More »

January 1, 2025news

Alibaba sells Sun Art Retail stake to PE firm DCP for ~$1.6B, after paying ~$3.6B in 2020 to double the stake to 70%+, as it focuses on its core online business (Bloomberg)

Alibaba sells Sun Art Retail stake to PE firm DCP for ~$1.6B, after paying ~$3.6B in 2020 to double the stake to […]

January 1, 2025news

PitchBook: the number of VCs investing in US startups fell from a peak of 8,315 in 2021 to 6,175 in 2024; 9 firms raised 50%+ of the $71B raised by VCs in 2024 (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Risk-averse financial institutions concentrate money on biggest Silicon Valley VCs in trend that threatens smaller groups Read More »

January 1, 2025news

OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt

Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included […]

January 1, 2025news

Link-Busters, an anti-piracy company working for big publishers, passed 2B URL takedown requests sent to Google and is behind 50%+ of Google takedown requests (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Home > Anti-Piracy > DMCA > Link-Busters is the unofficial DMCA takedown champion of 2024. The anti-piracy outfit works for many of […]

December 31, 2024news

Researchers find 4.5M “stars” on GitHub repos they suspect are fake; in July, Check Point found a network of inauthentic users starring repos containing malware (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

GitHub has a problem with inauthentic “stars” used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting […]

December 31, 2024news

Researchers find 4.5M “stars” on GitHub repos they suspect are fake; in July, Check Point found a network of inauthentic users starring repos containing malware (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

GitHub has a problem with inauthentic “stars” used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting […]

December 31, 2024news