Nadella Microsoft Ignite Keynote: Making People Achieve More
Nadella’s influence on Microsoft’s changing culture was on full display this week. itbusinessedge RSS Feed
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Chinese EV startup Xpeng Motors raises $400 million, takes on Xiaomi as strategic investor
Xpeng Motors, the Chinese electric vehicle startup backed by Alibaba and Foxconn, has raised a fresh injection of $ 400 million in capital and has taken on Xiaomi as a strategic investor, the company announced. The Series C includes an unidentified group of strategic and...
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Balderton Capital raises new $400M fund to back European tech startups at Series A
Balderton Capital, one of the so-called “big four” early-stage VC firms in London (the others being Accel, Atomico and Index), has raised a new $ 400 million fund to continue backing European tech startups at Series A. Dealroom recently released a report that pegged Balderton...
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China Roundup: facial recognition lawsuit and cashless payments for foreigners
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, a lawsuit sparked a debate over the deployment of China’s pervasive facial recognition;...
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Can America ever rebuild its neighborhoods and communities?
We talk a lot about startup ecosystems around these parts, and for good reason. Strong ecosystems have great reservoirs of talent congregated close together, a culture built around helping one another on ambitious projects, and sufficient risk capital to ensure that interesting projects have the...
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Roku puts a remote on your wrist with new Apple Watch app
The Roku remote is coming to your wrist. The company announced today the launch of an Apple Watch app that lets you control your Roku device, including Roku media players and select Roku TVs, with a tap — just like the Roku mobile app, but...
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Watch this adorable beluga whale play fetch with a football
A group of South African sailors near the South Pole have had an adorable interaction with a beluga whale, playing fetch with the apparently wild animal as though it were an oversized, wet puppy. The video, posted to Facebook by Alon Kowen, shows the jovial...
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Alphabet’s board is investigating execs over claims of sexual harassment and other misconduct
Alphabet’s board of directors has opened an investigation into how executives at the company have handled misconduct claims, CNBC reported earlier today after viewing materials that it says show an independent subcommittee has been formed — and a law firm hired — to look into...
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Chargify adds revenue forecasting tools to its suite of hosted payment management services
Chargify, the payment management service owned by Scaleworks, has added revenue forecasting tools to its software as a service offering. The company’s new revenue forecasting tools uses historical data and month-over-month performance pulled from a company’s billing platform. The company says its new tool can cut...
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Ex-Facebook head says company ‘profits partly by amplifying lies’
Facebook’s former head of Global Elections Integrity Ops left after six months on the job — and now she’s speaking out about the problems she faced when trying to fix the company’s political ad problems. In an op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday, Yaël...
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