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Android debuts new features for family and autos in time for the holidays
Google LLC’s Android team today announced a lengthy list of new features for Android products that will help people schedule holiday time with family, access widgets and interact with their cars. In tune with the holiday theme, “Family Bell” is a new feature for Android that will help families stay on track with daily schedules. ...
CertiK raises $80M to keep up with increasing blockchain security demand
Blockchain security startup CertiK has raised an additional $80 million in fresh funding to expand its smart contract auditing and tracking services. This Series B2 round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from investors Tiger Global, Coatue Management, GL Ventures and Lightspeed Ventures. It’s the third such round of capital raised by the company ...
Amazon announces AWS Private 5G managed service preview
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the preview of AWS Private 5G, a new managed service that allows enterprises to set up their own private mobile networks and scale them up. Private 5G is a full-service feature, announced at the Amazon.com Inc. cloud unit’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, that’s capable of spinning up ...
Mainframe raises $23M led by a16z for a cloud-native multiplayer game
Mainframe Industries, the startup behind the first cloud-native massively multiplayer online game, today announced it has raised $23 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. All previous investors including Riot Games invested in the Series B round and new investors included Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Huuuge Games founder and Chief Executive Aton Gauffin Cedric ...
Amazon updates CodeGuru to detect and secure secrets in code
Amazon is updating its automated code review and profiler platform, CodeGuru, to detect confidential secrets in source code with a feature called Secrets Detector. CodeGuru operates by scanning source code for defects and bugs using machine learning and suggests improvements to help developers overcome potential exploits and vulnerabilities to keep up with security best practices. ...
Report: Apple’s AR headset to launch in 2022 with M1-level computing power
Famed Apple Inc. analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the company’s anticipated augmented and virtual reality headset will debut in late 2022, featuring the computing power of its laptops with M1 chips. The news today came by way of MacRumors and 9to5Mac, in which Kuo shared further details about the technical capabilities of the headset and Apple’s likely plans ...
DeFi privacy protocol Panther raises $22M in a public token sale
Panther Protocol, an interoperable end-to-end privacy protocol for decentralized finance, today announced that it has raised $22 million during its recent public token sale. The sale, which closed in only 90 minutes, brings the total amount raised by the company to $32 million, including a private token sale in June. Launched in 2020, Panther’s platform ...
Bitrise raises $60M help devs keep up with mobile DevOps
Bitrise Ltd., a mobile DevOps company that helps developers get apps out faster, announced Thursday that it has secured $60 million in new funding led by Insight Partners. The Series C round was also joined by existing investors Partech, Open Ocean, Zobito, Fiedler Capital, Y Combinator and H14. The company was founded in 2014 to ...
Vercel raises $150M to expand its front-end web dev platform
Vercel Inc., the creator of the Next.js JavaScript framework for front-end web development, today announced that it has raised $150 million in new funding. GGV Capital led the Series D round, with participation from existing investors Accel, Bedrock Capital, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital, GV, 8VC, Flex Capital, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global, along ...
Crypto payments startup MoonPay raises $555M at a $3.4B valuation
MoonPay, a cryptocurrency payment infrastructure startup, today announced that it has raised $555 million in its first-ever funding round led by Tiger Global Management and Coatue. Existing investor Blossom Capital and new investors NEA, Paradigm and Thrive also participated in the Series A round, which values the company at $3.4 billion. MoonPay launched in 2019 ...