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Union Square Ventures and Learn Capital file paperwork indicating new funds

 https://forums.thesignagedepot.com/showthread.php?tid=91551 https://techteach.ir/forum/showthread.php?tid=49460 http://111.909.li/thread-30390.html http://secretcinema.no/skytech/showthread.php?tid=131243 http://forumdewa88.com/showthread.php?tid=27594 As 2020 comes to a long-awaited end, a series of filings indicate that venture capitalists are ending the year with fresh money. According to SEC paperwork, Learn Capital  and USV have filed paperwork that shows the firms have raised new, multimillion-dollar funds. If you’ve been paying attention to news this past year, it’s clear that much of venture capital isn’t just surviving 2020 – it’s flourishing through it. Zoom investing, it seems, is working just fine for cash-rich firms looking to double down on bets in categories from edtech to climate. First up, New York-based USV submitted a pair of filings on late Thursday. The first filing shows that the firm has closed $151 million for USV Climate 2021, which one can assume is focused o

An earnest review of a robotic cat pillow

 http://hub.cdp.res.in/myspace/showthread.php?tid=862501 http://moroccansoverseas.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10422 https://plainnuts.com/showthread.php?tid=42447 http://project.thescavenged.com/showthread.php?tid=107635 You don’t need Qoobo in your life. Nobody needs Qoobo,  exactly. In fact, first reactions tend to range from befuddlement to bemusement. The robotic cat pillow doesn’t make a ton of sense on the face of it – in part because Qoobo has no face. The handful of time I’ve interacted with the original Qoobo in person, reactions have been pretty uniform. The initial confusion gives way to the question of why such a thing needs to exist. And then, inevitably, someone ask how they can buy one of their own. The original, larger version was fairly difficult to get here in the States for a while, owing to the limitation of a small robotics company has in bringing its product to a brand new market. I suspect there was also a question of whether such an idiosyncratic product would

Daily Crunch: China presents ‘rectification’ plan for Ant Group

 http://forum.secondnaturesuccess.com/showthread.php?tid=193411 https://plbm.eu/showthread.php?tid=12244 http://wiidebate.com/showthread.php?tid=168059 https://movietato.com/showthread.php?tid=567 https://mysourcetelevision.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=161238&pid=425954#pid425954 https://www.fiftyeyes.com/showthread.php?tid=713 The Chinese government could reshape Ant Group’s  business, Tesla plans to launch in India next year and the FAA announces a new ID requirement for drones. This is your Daily Crunch for December 28, 2020. The big story: China presents ‘rectification’ plan for Ant Group Less than two months ago, Chinese authorities halted the planned IPO of Ant Group, the payments and fintech company that spun out of Alibaba nearly a decade earlier. Now the government has laid out a plan for how Ant Group can become compliant and presumably go public, with steps including a renewed focus on payments, obtaining necessary licenses for its credit business, establishing a financi

China lays out ‘rectification’ plan for Jack Ma’s fintech empire Ant

 http://forumdewa88.com/showthread.php?tid=31120 http://habboretrofan.free.fr/forum/showthread.php?tid=763 https://saldogratispoker.com/showthread.php?tid=68267 http://aandp.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=742441 https://rdevelopers.com/demo/jane/showthread.php?tid=8589 http://www.kolaservers.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=75402 The meeting came less than two months after China’s financial authorities abruptly halted what could have been a record-setting initial public offering of Ant over the firm’s regulatory compliance issues. The company, which started out as a payments processor for Alibaba’s online marketplaces and spun out in 2011, lacked a sound governance structure, defied regulatory requirements, illegally engaged in arbitrage, excluded competitors using its market advantage and hurt consumer rights, said the central bank. Concurrently, Jack Ma’s e-commerce giant Alibaba is under investigation by China’s top market regulator over alleged monopolistic behavior. The banking authori

Not even 5G could rescue smartphone sales in 2020

 http://concerns.sportshouse.com.ph/showthread.php?tid=5246 https://ringsidereport.com/forumz/showthread.php?tid=2607 http://amantespastoraleman.com/foro/showthread.php?tid=6995 https://forums.thesignagedepot.com/showthread.php?tid=125530&pid=505754 https://thefishboard.tightlinesnj.com/showthread.php?tid=5709&pid=7434#pid7434 http://plbm.eu/showthread.php?tid=2115 This was going to be the year of 5G. It was going to be the year the next-generation wireless technology helped reverse some troubling macro trends for the industry — or at the very least helped stem the bleeding some. But the best laid plans, and all that. With about a week left in the year, I think it’s pretty safe to say that 2020 didn’t wind up the way the vast majority of us had hoped. It’s a list that certainly includes the lion’s share of smartphone makers. Look no further than a recent report published by Gartner to answer the question of just how bad 2020 was for smartphone sales. It was so bad that a 5.7% g

Elon Musk says SpaceX to double launch pad usage for Starship tests, Super Heavy flights coming in a ‘few months’

 https://brodzio.pl/forum/showthread.php?tid=133579 http://lifeanddeathforum.com/showthread.php?tid=11351 https://plainnuts.com/showthread.php?tid=3086&pid=10273 http://www.techteach.ir/forum/showthread.php?tid=39759 http://forum.secondnaturesuccess.com/showthread.php?tid=187959 https://adminclub.org/showthread.php?tid=27139 https://mysourcetelevision.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=114670 http://plbm.eu/showthread.php?tid=119259 SpaceX  is set to significantly ramp up its Starship development program in the new year, in more ways than one. SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk noted on Twitter on Thursday that the company will seek to make use of both of its two launch pads at its development facility in Boca Chica, Texas with prototype rockets set up on each, and that it will begin flight testing its Super Heavy booster (starting with low-altitude “hops”) as quickly as “a few months” from now. Recently, SpaceX set up its SN9 prototype of Starship (the ninth in the current series) at Pad

Lockheed Martin acquires rocket engine maker Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.4Bn as Space heats up

 http://lifeanddeathforum.com/showthread.php?tid=33473&pid=53193 https://plainnuts.com/showthread.php?tid=23402 https://brodzio.pl/forum/showthread.php?tid=5008 https://forum.viewcomiconline.com/showthread.php?tid=1965&pid=30912#pid30912 https://adminclub.org/showthread.php?tid=56615 https://mysourcetelevision.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=265906 http://forum.secondnaturesuccess.com/showthread.php?tid=180955 http://hub.cdp.res.in/myspace/showthread.php?tid=856774 http://www.kolaservers.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=54141 https://www.yousciences.it/forum/showthread.php?tid=7171&pid=29232#pid29232 Lockheed Martin  (LM), the US’s largest defence contractor will acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne  (AR), a rocket engine and missile manufacturer, for $4.4 billion including debt and net cash, giving the company a larger stake in space and hypersonic technology. The move comes amid the context of increasing competition in the Space and Defence industries. In a news release, the company said

SoftBank will reportedly file for a SPAC on Monday

 https://movietato.com/showthread.php?tid=193 http://wiidebate.com/showthread.php?tid=21752 http://forum.naronanews.com/showthread.php?tid=5339 http://www.kadimkrallik.com/forum/thread-9503.html http://forum.ardream62.net/showthread.php?tid=36052 http://secretcinema.no/skytech/showthread.php?tid=100447 http://moroccansoverseas.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=49717 http://111.909.li/thread-4799.html https://hackz.com.br/showthread.php?tid=33764 http://project.thescavenged.com/showthread.php?tid=158366 https://forum.qworld-tuna.com/showthread.php?tid=26 SoftBank  Investment Advisers may file as early as Monday to raise between $500 million and $600 million through an initial public offering of its first special purpose acquisition vehicle, reports Axios. SoftBank Investment Advisers manages the two Vision Funds and may continue leaning into SPACs, with two more reportedly in the works. https://etonicbowlingshoesdiscountonsale.blogspot.com/2012/10/etonic-basic-womens-kitty-kat-discount.html

Daily Crunch: Amy Klobuchar discusses Amazon Halo concerns

 http://plbm.eu/showthread.php?tid=1619 http://forum.naronanews.com/showthread.php?tid=8349 http://hub.cdp.res.in/myspace/showthread.php?tid=552779 We interview the senior senator from Minnesota about fitness trackers, Sony pulls “Cyberpunk 2077” from the PlayStation Store and Indian delivery startup Zomato raises a massive round. This is your Daily Crunch for December 18, 2020. The big story: Amy Klobuchar discusses Amazon  Halo concerns Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar recently wrote an open letter to Alex Azar of the Department of Health and Human Services, in  which she discussed Amazon’s Halo fitness tracker and expressed concern that “the Halo appears to collect an unprecedented level of personal information.” Klobuchar elaborated on these issues in an interview with TechCrunch. HHS, she said, “should play a larger role in ensuring data privacy when it comes to health” and work with the FTC “to come up with some rules to safeguard private health information.” Klobuchar added, “I t

Twitter bots and memorialized users will become ‘new account types’ in 2021

 http://forums.mollybeans.com/showthread.php?tid=1400&pid=4490#pid4490 http://forum.realtor-room.ru/showthread.php?tid=2821 http://www.techteach.ir/forum/showthread.php?tid=44230 http://forum.secondnaturesuccess.com/showthread.php?tid=183698 https://hackz.com.br/showthread.php?tid=43676&pid=234008 https://adminclub.org/showthread.php?tid=12654 After a period of public feedback, Twitter  adjusted some its plans for a new verification process, set to roll out next year. The company suspended public verification applications in 2017 and since appears to have rethought a few aspects of what information the platform should signal to its users, blue checks and beyond. One big verification-adjacent change around the corner: Twitter plans to add a way of distinguishing bots and other automated accounts. “… It can be confusing to people if it’s not clear that these accounts are automated,” the company wrote in a blog post. “In 2021, we’re planning to build a new account type to distingu

China’s Luckin Coffee will pay $180 million to settle accounting fraud charges

 https://mysourcetelevision.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=71917 https://hiztegia.labayru.eus/forum/showthread.php?tid=4349 China’s embattled coffee delivery startup Luckin has reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, agreeing to pay a $180 million penalty to settle charges that it overstated its revenues, expenses, and losses by the hundreds of millions of dollars. The announcement by the market regulator arrived Wednesday evening, months after short-seller Muddy Waters first reported the alleged fraud early this year. In response to the allegations, Luckin said in April it would launch an internal probe. In June, the SEC said it would delist Luckin, and in July, Luckin admitted it did cook its books. The fiasco came only a year after Luckin raised $651 million through its first time sale on Nasdaq. The company was founded in October 2017, making it one of the fastest companies to go from a startup to a public company. https://www.yousciences.it/forum/showt

Revolut launches mid-tier subscription plan

 https://plbm.eu/showthread.php?tid=190800 https://rdevelopers.com/demo/jane/showthread.php?tid=80026 http://www.kolaservers.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=90119 https://forum.focohost.com.br/showthread.php?tid=16581 https://techteach.ir/forum/showthread.php?tid=76068 http://www.itssa.ir/forum/showthread.php?tid=7917 http://www.reo14.moe.go.th/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=80925 http://www.reo14.moe.go.th/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5863 http://www.reo14.moe.go.th/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=55615 http://www.reo14.moe.go.th/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=49853 Fintech startup Revolut is tweaking its subscription plans with a new mid-tier offering called Revolut  Plus — it costs £2.99 per month. Like N26 Smart and Monzo Plus, the new plan is a pandemic-proof package that doesn’t focus as much on travel. For the past couple of years, challenger banks and alternatives to traditional bank accounts have been packaging additional services into paid plans. Essentially, those fintech startups are slowly becoming freemi

UK Online Harms Bill, coming next year, will propose fines of up to 10% of annual turnover for breaching duty of care rules

The U.K. is moving ahead with a populist but controversial plan to regulate a wide range of illegal and/or harmful content almost anywhere online such stuff might pose a risk to children. The government has set out its final response to the consultation it kicked off back in April 2019 — committing to introduce an Online Safety Bill next year. “Tech platforms will need to do far more to protect children from being exposed to harmful content or activity such as grooming, bullying and pornography. This will help make sure future generations enjoy the full benefits of the internet with better protections in place to reduce the risk of harm,” it said today. In an earlier partial response to the consultation on its Online Harms white paper ministers confirmed the U.K.’s media regulator, Ofcom, as its pick for enforcing the forthcoming rules.  http://highhopeshuntclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=896550 https://highhopeshuntclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1170349 https://highhopeshuntclub.co