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Mighty helps young entrepreneurs start and grow their own businesses. Thanks to Mighty, each kid will master the tools of business and harness the power of social impact. Mighty recently closed on $6.5 million in seed funding led by Animo Ventures, with participation from Maveron, Humbition, Sesame Workshop, Collaborative Fund and NaHCO3, a family office. […]
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“More than 1 billion people use Marketplace each month, so we’re making it easy for businesses to bring their Shops into Marketplace to reach even more people,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. Today CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced some updates that are coming to Facebook products: Shops on WhatsApp and Marketplace, Shops Ads, and Instagram […]
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Google is implementing two changes in order to provide consumers with more professional-level tools. The first one is that Google Chat and Google Meet are replacing Hangouts. This means that existing Hangouts chats should be carried over, and in part this will be just a rebranding exercise: Activate Google Chat in Gmail, install the app […]
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The Ninja Dragon Vortex 9 RC has a 6-axis gyroscope for a smooth, stable flight and a headless design that doesn’t require reorienting in midair before heading off in the desired direction. It is able to sync easily with a smartphone for even the most intricate flying using the included controller. There’s also a one key […]
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Porsche has developed a prototype system that plays custom, original music to your driving, whether you’re on the open road or stuck in traffic. The “Soundtrack My Life” project works something like game music, amping up the intensity depending on the “acceleration, speed and centrifugal forces in the car,” according to Porsche. One advantage is […]
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Spotify has purchased a startup called Podz that could make it easier to find new podcasts to listen to on the platform. Podz chooses a clip using its machine learning model, which was trained on more than 100,000 hours of audio in consultation with journalists and audio editors. This acquisition marks yet another sign of […]
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The AI-powered defense company founded by tech iconoclast Palmer Luckey has landed a $450 million round of investment The company makes defense hardware, including long-flying drones and surveillance towers that connect to a shared software platform it calls Lattice. The technology can be used to secure military bases and monitor borders. Anduril co-founder and CEO […]
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Bringg has built software to help retailers with last-mile logistics — specifically to manage, and in some cases even tap, people fulfilling deliveries. It has raised $100 million in a Series E round of funding and has confirmed that the funding values the company at $1 billion — representing a hike of about 4x on […]
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10x Future Texhnologies, a London-based fintech that helps larger, established banks build both next-generation services as well as tools to help their older services work more efficiently, has raised $187 million. 10x will be using the funds both to expand into new geographies like North America, as well as to continue building more technology for […]
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