by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
In less than three months and notwithstanding intervention, TikTok will be effectively banned in the U.S. unless an American company steps in to save it, after the Trump administration declared by executive order this week that the Chinese-built video sharing app is a...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Walmart’s investments in e-commerce, including online grocery delivery and pickup, are continuing to pay off for the retailer. In the company’s Q2 earnings, released this morning, Walmart reported its U.S. e-commerce sales were up 97% — an increase attributed to more...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Playdots — developer of the mobile games Dots, Two Dots and Dots & Co. — has reached an agreement to be acquired by publisher Take-Two Interactive. Take-Two will pay $192 million for the deal, $90 million in cash and the remaining $102 million in stock. Playdots...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
SpaceX has successfully launched 58 more Starlink satellites for its growing internet broadband constellation. This is the 11th batch of Starlink satellites to go up, bringing the total on orbit to well over 600. Today’s mission also carried three Planet satellites,...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of Social Capital, does not do minority investing anymore. If he finds a startup he likes, he just buys it outright. The billionaire co-founded Social Capital in 2011, and seven years later, he pivoted the investment firm into a...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Buildkite’s founding team–Lachlan Donald, Keith Pitt and Tim Lucas–working remotely Buildkite, a Melbourne-based company that provides a hybrid continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for software developers, announced today that it has raised...