Published on: 2025-06-10 16:47:05
Chime, whose pending IPO is expected to be one of 2025’s blockbuster hits, issued a share price range on Monday of $24 to $26. That’s an up-to-$11.2-billion market cap. At the mid-range, the company will raise $800 million for itself and a handful of investors, including European VC powerhouse Cathay Innovation, who plan to sell some shares in the IPO. Even in these slow IPO times, this wouldn’t be the biggest IPO of 2025. Coreweave, which raised $1.5 billion, and was valued at $23 billion, ho
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 12:45:00
Bitkraft Ventures, an early-stage game investment firm, has added new leaders who will double down on Web3 gaming investments. Bitkraft, which raised its third fund in 2024 and has $1 billion in assets under management, announced promotions for Carlos Pereira and Jonathan Huang to general partner and partner, respectively, helping bolster their Web3 investment strategy and further committing to the blockchain segment of the gaming market. Additionally, Matt Halstead, former director of the Tea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 20:14:54
In Brief Delaware’s attorney general is hiring an investment bank to advise on OpenAI’s for-profit conversion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The independent evaluation could prolong the transition, or gum up OpenAI’s plans even further. OpenAI’s conversion will help it attract new investment and eventually go public, but first, the startup needs to secure approvals from state regulators. Although OpenAI and Microsoft have hired their own investment banks to advise on the deal,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 00:12:11
Jeremy Allaire, co-founder and CEO of Circle, speaks at the 2025 TIME100 Summit in New York on April 23, 2025. Stablecoin issuer Circle stands to be one of the first significant cryptocurrency companies to go public in the U.S. That's not the only unusual aspect of its IPO. In Circle's updated prospectus on Tuesday, the company said it would sell 9.6 million shares in the offering, while existing shareholders would sell 14.4 million shares. It's exceedingly rare in a tech IPO for more shares t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 01:14:22
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. If you’ve ever wondered how the Internet Archive uploads all the physical documents on its site, now you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the process. The Internet Archive launched a new YouTube livestream that shows the digitization of microfiche in real time — complete with some relaxing, lo-fi beats. Microfiche is a sheet of film that contain
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 22:00:32
Back in December, Swedish tech entrepreneur Sebastian Siemiatkowski — the guy behind Klarna, the infamous burrito financing app — directed his family investment company to dump $5 billion into AI startups. The investment made up a "mini portfolio" of four "prominent US-based AI companies," a press release said at the time. Those were software engineer startup Anysphere, generative AI language outfit Speak, bioresearch venture Chai Discovery — and a fourth, anonymous company. On its face, there
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 05:13:07
Indian IT giant investigates link to M&S cyber-attack 4 hours ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images An Indian IT company is conducting an internal investigation to determine whether it was the gateway for the cyber-attack on Marks & Spencer, BBC News understands. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has provided services to M&S for more than a decade. Earlier this week, M&S said the hackers who had brought huge disruption to the retailer had managed to gain acces
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 20:13:07
Indian IT giant investigates M&S cyber attack link 48 minutes ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images An Indian IT company is conducting an internal investigation to determine whether it was the gateway for the cyber attack on Marks & Spencer, BBC News understands. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has provided services to M&S for more than a decade. Earlier this week, M&S said the hackers who have brought huge disruption to the retailer managed to gain access t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 12:35:19
is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The company had spent over a year developing a new version of the Vestaboard called the Smart Bits that was “a completely new way to experience Vestaboard’s patented character units” that also “pushed the limits of design, engineering, and manufacturing,” according to the company’s founder and CEO, Dorrian Porter. But, when faced with economic un
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 15:34:21
Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced on Wednesday that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski posted a surprising message on X. Siemiatkowski’s family investment office, Flat Capital, had bought shares in io six months earlier, he said. Since this is an all-stock deal, those io shares will be converted into shares in the for-profit arm of OpenAI. “Excited that @FlatCapital was an investor in io and th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 16:10:46
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. If you’ve ever wondered how the Internet Archive uploads all the physical documents on its site, now you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the process. The Internet Archive launched a new YouTube livestream that shows the digitization of microfiche in real time — complete with some relaxing, lo-fi beats. Microfiche is a sheet of film that contain
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 17:00:09
This story was produced by Grist and was co-published with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting . The workers had spent the morning of November 8, 2021, clipping, trussing, and trellising hundreds of thousands of tomato plants that twisted almost four stories into the air. They were inside one of the world’s largest high-tech greenhouses, which sat on more than 60 acres of a former cattle field in Morehead, Kentucky. As one of the greenhouse workers, who I’ll call Nora, sat down for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 19:44:16
Whether you care about preserving history or just want to see what Apple’s homepage looked like 10 years ago, the Internet Archive is an invaluable resource that’s easy to take for granted. A new project launching today pulls back the curtain on one of its lesser-seen efforts, revealing the real human work behind preserving public records for the digital age. The Internet Archive has started livestreaming its microfiche digitization center on YouTube, offering a real-time look at how fragile fi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 11:42:24
Thomas Klitgaard The obvious answer to the question of why the United States runs a trade deficit is that its export sales have not kept up with its demand for imports. A less obvious answer is that the imbalance reflects a macroeconomic phenomenon. Using national accounting, one can show deficits are also due to a persistent shortfall in domestic saving that requires funds from abroad to finance domestic investment spending. Reducing the trade imbalance therefore requires both more exports rel
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 09:42:24
Thomas Klitgaard The obvious answer to the question of why the United States runs a trade deficit is that its export sales have not kept up with its demand for imports. A less obvious answer is that the imbalance reflects a macroeconomic phenomenon. Using national accounting, one can show deficits are also due to a persistent shortfall in domestic saving that requires funds from abroad to finance domestic investment spending. Reducing the trade imbalance therefore requires both more exports rel
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 10:05:46
He sees the writing on the wall. Getting Out A wealth manager and longtime Tesla bull has lost confidence in multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk — and now, he's forewarning of Tesla's downfall yet again. As Business Insider reports, based on financial disclosures, investor Ross Gerber of the Gerber-Kawasaki wealth management firm unloaded more than 26,000 of his company's Tesla shares in the first quarter of 2025, roughly ten percent of the firm's stake. One of the company's earliest inves
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 18:58:54
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son delivers remarks next to U.S. President Donald Trump at an 'Investing in America' event in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 30, 2025. Softbank's Vision Fund business on Tuesday posted a loss in the fiscal year ended March as it booked slowing gains at its massive tech investment arm. SoftBank said it notched a gain on investment at its Vision Funds of 434.9 billion yen in the fiscal year, a 40% fall from the 724.3 billion yen booked in the previous year. In its fiscal
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 12:43:56
Apple stock soared almost 6% at market open today, following the announcement of an easement of US tariffs on China. The countries agreed over the weekend to cut reciprocal tariffs from 125% to 10%. However, the deal is set to expire in 90 days as talks over a longer-term resolution continue. Naturally, investors in Apple are reacting positively to the news. Tariffs on Chinese production hurt Apple’s bottom line, as they directly affect the cost of making the iPhone, which accounts for more tha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 15:09:04
tl;dr: Burrito bonds represent finance doing what it does best: unbundling risk, pricing it granularly, and allocating capital more efficiently. BNPL unbundles consumer credit into tradeable assets to let the market decide who should hold the risk. The result is lower borrowing costs, and a credit market that’s more effective than the status quo. Despite skepticism from Volcker and Buffet, financial innovation has been and will continue to be a massive net positive for humanity. I will write a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 17:47:40
In Brief Billy Evans, partner of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is working on a new startup that seeks to deliver “human health optimization” through blood testing, according to The New York Times. The Times reportedly spoke to two investors pitched on the startup, called Haemanthus, and also viewed some of Haemanthus’ marketing materials. In those materials, the company says it has developed a machine that uses lasers to analyze blood, saliva, and urine samples to detect cancer and infec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 04:24:16
In Brief Manus AI is one of the hottest AI agent startups around, recently raising $75 million at a half-billion dollar valuation in a round led by Benchmark. But two unnamed sources told Semafor that the investment is now under review by the U.S. Treasury Department over its compliance with 2023 restrictions on investing in Chinese companies. Benchmark’s lawyers cleared the investment because Manus isn’t technically developing its own AI models, but is instead a “wrapper” around existing one
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 07:00:00
The game industry’s motto for all of last year was “survive til 2025.” And in some respects, that wasn’t just wishful thinking. As the industry trudged through 2024, market researcher DDM saw positive signs. And with one quarter of 2025 in the books, it certainly seems that things are trending in the right direction when it comes to game deals — investments or M&A. Q1 2025 not only marks the second consecutive quarter of growth, but it is the largest quarter since Q4 2023, with combined games
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 08:10:20
A group of investors are considering a plan to inject another $30 million into BluSmart in a bid to revive the Indian cab-hailing startup that abruptly halted operations last month, TechCrunch has learned. The proposal from these existing investors has a catch: its contingent on BluSmart co-founder Anmol Singh Jaggi agreeing to resign. The proposed investment will be treated in the form of unsecured debt and will be aimed at fixing the startup’s operational liabilities, including pending dues
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 03:00:00
CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. If you’ve been on FitTok lately, you have probably noticed some influencers wearing weighted vests along with ankle weights during their hot girl walks. Although I can’t speak to the ankle weights part, I have tried weighted vests during my workouts. Even though weighted vests are part of a social media trend at the moment, tradi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 08:42:01
In Brief If you’re a Substack publisher who prefers not to turn on your camera while livestreaming, you’re in luck. Substack announced on Tuesday that it’s launching an audio-only livestream feature for publishers who want a lower-pressure way to connect with their followers. This is also ideal for those who wish to remain anonymous. To use the feature, publishers need to click the camera icon to turn off video when going live. They can re-enable the video at any time during the stream. It’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-26 22:22:03
I’m testing out putting the entire article in the email vs making you click through to my blog. I think it will be easier for you to read (let’s just hope I don’t have any post-send edits). Let me know what you think by forwarding to a friend to subscribe 🙏 After 15 consecutive years of angel investing, I hit pause in 2024. It's now been a full 12 months without writing a check, marking the longest hiatus in my angel "career." There isn't enough transparency in angel investing, and my past pos
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 15:46:29
Apple CEO Tim Cook offered the company’s first comments on the impact of President Trump’s tariffs during Thursday’s second-quarter earnings call with investors. While the iPhone maker saw only “limited impact” from tariffs in the March quarter, Cook said Apple couldn’t forecast what that would mean for the coming quarter. However, if things remained the same, the company estimates tariffs will only add $900 million to its costs in Q3. The news was a relief to investors, with one even calling i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 20:46:29
Apple CEO Tim Cook commented on the impact of President Trump’s tariffs during Thursday’s second-quarter earnings call with investors. While the iPhone maker saw only “limited impact” from tariffs in the March quarter, Cook said Apple couldn’t forecast what that would mean for the coming quarter. However, if things remained the same, the company estimates tariffs will only add $900 million to its costs. The news was a relief to investors, with one even calling it a “pretty good outcome.” Howeve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 00:11:26
In the 21st century, it's safe to say no secret is safe. Our personal data is constantly bottled and sold — by the companies whose apps we use every day, to the advertisers cluttering our phones with increasingly personalized ads. So far, that "data mining" has been confined to our phones and computers. But now, a group of lawmakers are speaking out about an even further breach of privacy: companies scraping data from brain implants. In a joint letter sent on Monday, democratic senators Chuck
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-05 09:58:00
What just happened? IBM has joined the list of companies pledging to pour billions into the US manufacturing industry. The software giant has announced it will be investing $150 billion in the United States over the next five years, including $30 billion toward production of its mainframe and quantum computers. Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer, said, "We have been focused on American jobs and manufacturing since our founding 114 years ago, and with this invest
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