Author: Daniel Harrison

triller maus mau Triller didn’t deny the claim from a source that it inflates MAUs to the public and says there’s “no legal definition of MAU/DAU”, ahead of expected SPAC merger  —  “There is no legal definition of MAU/DAU,” says Mike Lu, Triller CEO.  “We are an open ecosystem … Triller’s value is in monetizing users, not MAU or DAU.” Source Keep visiting resentieo.com for the latest news and updates.

microsoft 19.7b friday Microsoft acquires Fungible, which makes data processing units for data centers and has raised over $300M; reports from December say the deal is worth ~$190M  —  In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known … Source Keep visiting resentieo.com for the latest news and updates.

craig wright david wright theguardian Florida jury finds that Craig Wright doesn’t have to transfer half of his bitcoin to David Kleiman’s family, which would have proven whether Wright was Nakamoto  —  A US court case could have unmasked Australian as cryptocurrency inventor.  But a jury found in his favour so the enigma remains Source Keep visiting resentieo.com for the latest news and updates.

series emergence capitalwiggersventurebeat Coalesce, which helps model, clean, and govern data in Snowflake’s cloud, raised a $26M Series A led by Emergence Capital, bringing its total funding to $31.92M  —  Coalesce is a startup that offers data transformation tools geared mainly toward enterprise customers. Source Keep visiting resentieo.com for the latest news and updates.

5g us fccbrubaker calkinsbloomberg A look at how Tim Cook has transformed Apple after Jobs into a more diversified company and successfully deflected political pressure  —  Trade war?  Pfft.  Trump?  Please.  Antitrust?  Zuck’s prob.  (Ditto privacy.)  Revenue?  Endless. Source Keep visiting resentieo.com for the latest news and updates.

look silicon saxony europe eumiller financialtimes A look at Germany’s “Silicon Saxony”, which accounts for one in three chips made in Europe, as the EU aims to double its global chip market share to 20% by 2030  —  Cluster that began in communist East Germany now seen as strategic asset amid supply chain crisis Source Keep visiting resentieo.com for the latest news and updates.

bank 100m series 1b general catalystfeldmanforbes AtoB, which offers a payment system specially designed for truckers, raised a $155M Series B led by Elad Gil and General Catalyst, valuing the company at $800M Source Keep visiting resentieo.com for the latest news and updates.

sources mustafa suleyman deepmindstreetjournal Reveal that sidelining of Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, from management responsibilities in 2019 was because he bullied staff  —  Google’s parent, Alphabet, has waded through one controversy after another involving its top researchers and executives in the field Source Keep visiting resentieo.com for the latest news and updates.

apple grand central terminal washingtonpost Workers at Apple’s flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan start formally collecting signatures to form a union  —  If successful, the effort would be the first time an Apple retail location has unionized  —  Workers at Apple’s flagship Grand Central Terminal retail location … Source Keep visiting resentieo.com for the latest news and updates.

bostonbased ai posh canapi ventureswiggersventurebeat Boston-based conversational AI startup Posh Technologies raises a $27.5M Series A led by Canapi Ventures to fuel call center automation  —  As call volumes skyrocketed during the pandemic, contact centers turned to AI to help distribute the workload.  But even before the pandemic … Source Keep visiting resentieo.com for the latest news and updates.