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November 25, 2024news

Italian PE firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video platform Brightcove private in a $233M deal; Brightcove, founded in 2004, makes monetization tools (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses monetize video content, is being taken private in a deal valued at $233 million. Read […]

November 25, 2024news

The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving exclusive clauses (Peter Chapman/Bloomberg)

The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving […]

November 22, 2024news

Sources: MatX, which designs chips to train LLMs, raised a ~$80M Series A led by Spark Capital, at a ~$300M valuation, after raising a $25M seed in March (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

MatX, a startup designing chips that support large language models, has raised a Series A of approximately $80 million, three sources say, […]

November 21, 2024news

Meta is rolling out voice message transcripts on WhatsApp globally over the coming weeks in select languages, and says they are generated on users’ devices

WhatsApp announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out voice message transcripts to let users read voice messages. Read More »

November 21, 2024news

SpyCloud researchers say Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting insiders working for government surveillance agencies to sell their access online

Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it onlineâno […]

November 21, 2024news

SpyCloud researchers say Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting insiders working for government surveillance agencies to sell their access online

Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it onlineâno […]

November 21, 2024news

Ad software company Mediaocean acquires Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap of ~$240M at market close on November 20

Ad software company Mediaocean acquires Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap of ~$240M […]

November 21, 2024news

A profile of Thrive Capital, whose biggest portfolio companies include OpenAI and Stripe, as rivals say the VC firm’s approach is closer to asset management

The ‘all in or all out’ approach of Josh Kushner’s VC business inverts the traditional venture model. Will it pay off? Read […]

November 21, 2024news

Alibaba appoints Jiang Fan its new e

Alibaba appoints Jiang Fan its new e-commerce chief in an overhaul of the struggling business; Jiang was demoted in 2020 after allegations […]

November 19, 2024news

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Italian PE firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video platform Brightcove private in a $233M deal; Brightcove, founded in 2004, makes monetization tools (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving exclusive clauses (Peter Chapman/Bloomberg)

Sources: MatX, which designs chips to train LLMs, raised a ~$80M Series A led by Spark Capital, at a ~$300M valuation, after raising a $25M seed in March (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Meta is rolling out voice message transcripts on WhatsApp globally over the coming weeks in select languages, and says they are generated on users’ devices

SpyCloud researchers say Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting insiders working for government surveillance agencies to sell their access online

SpyCloud researchers say Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting insiders working for government surveillance agencies to sell their access online

Ad software company Mediaocean acquires Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap of ~$240M at market close on November 20

A profile of Thrive Capital, whose biggest portfolio companies include OpenAI and Stripe, as rivals say the VC firm’s approach is closer to asset management

Alibaba appoints Jiang Fan its new e

Meta is forming a new product group to build AI tools for businesses, led by Clara Shih, most recently the CEO of Salesforce AI