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Foundry, which aims to acquire and optimize online brands for marketplaces like Amazon, launches with $100M from LightBay Capital and Monogram Capital Partners(Tatiana Walk-Morris/Retail Dive)
Foundry, which aims to acquire and optimize online brands for marketplaces like Amazon, launches with $100M from LightBay Capital and Monogram Capital Partners — Dive Brief: — As investors fund platforms that support digital brands, Foundry, a platform that supports and acquires online brands … Source
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Apptopia: anonymous messaging app Sendit, which uses Snap Kit to work with Snapchat features, surges with 3.5M installs, two months after Snap banned Yolo, LMK(Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Apptopia: anonymous messaging app Sendit, which uses Snap Kit to work with Snapchat features, surges with 3.5M installs, two months after Snap banned Yolo, LMK _ In May of this year, Snap suspended two Snapchat-integrated apps that allowed users to send anonymous messages… Source
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A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten VPNs jumped from 15K before the war to 475K in March(Anthony Faiola/Washington Post)
A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten VPNs jumped from 15K before the war to 475K in March — A surge in virtual private network downloads is a challenge to Vladimir Putin and his version of the war… Source
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GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down on November 15; Thomas Dohmke, who became chief product officer in August, will take over as CEO(Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down on November 15; Thomas Dohmke, who became chief product officer in August, will take over as CEO — GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down from his role on November 15 to become the Chairman Emeritus of the Microsoft-owned service… Source
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Disney+ misses on Q1 subscriber estimates, reaching 103.6M subscribers vs. 109.3M expected; ESPN+ subscribers rose 75% YoY to 13.8M, Hulu grew 30% YoY to 41.6M(Variety)
Disney+ misses on Q1 subscriber estimates, reaching 103.6M subscribers vs. 109.3M expected; ESPN+ subscribers rose 75% YoY to 13.8M, Hulu grew 30% YoY to 41.6M — The jets kept firing for Disney Plus, which reached 103.6 million subscribers worldwide as of April 3, the company reported … Source
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An interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger about his IDM 2.0 strategy, partnering with TSMC, the Tower Semiconductor acquisition, and learning from AMD’s success(Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
An interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger about his IDM 2.0 strategy, partnering with TSMC, the Tower Semiconductor acquisition, and learning from AMD’s success — Intel has been one of the companies I have focused on from the very beginning of Stratechery… Source
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Open source developer David Recordon named Biden’s director of technology, returning to the White House after serving as its first director of IT under Obama(Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet)
Open source developer David Recordon named Biden’s director of technology, returning to the White House after serving as its first director of IT under Obama — With a background in open source, open standards, and security, Recordon may be ideal for President Joe Biden’s White House… Source
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From BitClout to income share agreements at Lambda School, the future of work feels like a pyramid scheme where you can package and sell others’ potential(Dror Poleg)
From BitClout to income share agreements at Lambda School, the future of work feels like a pyramid scheme where you can package and sell others’ potential — The future of work is a pyramid scheme, where every person sells his favorite person to the next person… Source
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Clubhouse has raised a Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz, with DST Global, Tiger Global, and Elad Gil participating(Clubhouse)
Clubhouse has raised a Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz, with DST Global, Tiger Global, and Elad Gil participating — Since then we have grown faster than expected, as Clubhouse has expanded across hundreds of countries around the world. With millions of new users bouncing around the hallways … Source
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Fishbrain, a Stockholm-based sport fishing app, social network, and digital marketplace with ~12M users, raises $31M from Consensus, Adrigo Asset, and SoftBank(FinSMEs)
Fishbrain, a Stockholm-based sport fishing app, social network, and digital marketplace with ~12M users, raises $31M from Consensus, Adrigo Asset, and SoftBank — Fishbrain, a Stockholm, Sweden-based sport fishing app, social network, and digital marketplace, raised $31M in funding… Source
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