ButcherBox, a bootstrapped startup with over $600,000 in revenue, acquires Truffle Shuffle, a cooking skills platform. The acquisition aims to enhance cooking abilities for ButcherBox customers and potentially expand its product line.
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Business | Rating: 47 | 2024-05-02 10:15:09 AM |
Freshworks, a publicly listed SaaS firm, acquires Device42 for $230 million. Founder Girish Mathrubootham steps down as CEO, replaced by Dennis Woodside, former CEO of Motorola Mobility. Mathrubootham becomes executive chairman. The acquisition helps Freshworks expand its IT management capabilities.
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Mergers | Rating: 51 | 2024-05-02 08:25:04 AM |
TikTok and Universal Music Group (UMG) have reached a new content licensing agreement, allowing users to create music clips using UMG's catalog, featuring artists like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and Ariana Grande. The deal ends a months-long dispute between the two companies.
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Tech | Rating: 47 | 2024-05-02 07:35:04 AM |
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2024-05-01 11:35:04 PM |
Snapchat announced new augmented reality (AR) and machine learning (ML) tools at the 2024 IAB NewFronts event. The tools aim to help brands create interactive experiences and make it faster to create AR try-on assets. No specific statistics or figures were mentioned.
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AI | Rating: 42 | 2024-05-01 11:25:12 PM |
Katie Haun's venture firm, Haun Ventures, received a $5M investment from Andreessen Horowitz. Haun left the firm in 2021 to launch her own crypto-focused venture firm, which has a total of $1.5 billion in funds.
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Investment | Rating: 51 | 2024-05-01 11:25:11 PM |
Keith Rabois, a partner at Founders Fund, announced his departure to return to Khosla Ventures, a surprise move in the venture capital industry where partners typically stay with their funds for 10-year cycles.
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Venture Capital | Rating: 51 | 2024-05-01 09:55:05 PM |
NASA has awarded 12 research tasks to private companies to study Mars exploration, marking the second time the agency has sought commercial support for future Mars missions. The move aims to pave the way for private companies to support NASA's Mars missions.
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Space | Rating: 71 | 2024-05-01 08:45:04 PM |
Two months after a hack, UnitedHealthcare CEO estimates that a third of US citizens were affected. The hack targeted Change Healthcare systems, stealing and encrypting data. The CEO of Change Healthcare's parent company, UnitedHealth Group, previously stated that the stolen files include personal health information of a substantial proportion of Americans.
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Healthcare | Rating: 49 | 2024-05-01 07:45:04 PM |
Pinterest launched Shuffles, a collage app, in 2022. The AI-powered feature, now integrated into Pinterest, sees three times the engagement of traditional Pins. The app allows users to curate content from around the web, popular among Gen Z users.
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AI | Rating: 47 | 2024-05-01 07:05:07 PM |
