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Blockchain infrastructure firm Figment raises $110M at a $1.4B valuation
Blockchain infrastructure provider Figment today announced a $110 million funding round to expand its services for the application layer of Web 3.0 decentralized networks at a $1.4 billion valuation. The Series C round, which follows a $50 million Series B round in August, was led by software investment firm Thoma Brovo. Counterpoint Global, Binance Labs, ...
Apple releases Swift Playgrounds 4 with support for app creation on iPad
Apple Inc. announced Wednesday the official release of Swift Playgrounds 4, the newest version of an app that teaches developers to code, which added support for creating iPad and iPhone apps directly on the iPad without the need for a Mac. Swift Playgrounds provides a highly visual way for new and old developers to learn ...
How the National Cancer Institute is using Google Cloud to support researchers around the globe
The U.S. National Cancer Institute is using Google Cloud to connect researchers all over the world to cancer data sets along with powerful analytical tools to study the data quickly and securely. The NCI provides a cloud-based research commons with its Cloud Resources, which allows data scientists to analyze cancer datasets in a cloud environment. ...
ManageXR raises $4M seed funding to enable enterprise AR/VR device management
ManageXR, a platform for managing virtual and augmented reality devices, today announced it has raised $4 million in seed funding. The San Francisco-based startup said the round, led by Rally Ventures, is aimed at helping small, midsized and enterprise customers facilitate the expansion and management of their AR/VR device fleets at large scale. That includes ...
Oppo unveils Air Glass ‘assisted reality’ monocle device
Chinese consumer technology company Oppo today unveiled a new wearable device designed to clip onto glasses called Air Glass. The company describes the device as using “assisted reality” and not augmented reality: Instead of overlaying holographic objects on the user’s vision, it displays text and other 2D information. Users can call up information such as ...
Spatial looks to the metaverse and NFTs with $25M in new funding
Spatial Systems Inc., formerly the creator of a virtual reality collaboration platform, said today that it’s dramatically shifting the focus of its company to become the metaverse for cultural events such as nonfungible token exhibitions, conferences and branded experiences. The company also announced $25 million in new funding to develop its plans. Investors included Pine ...
Google Play will bring Android games to Windows PCs in 2022
Google LLC is bringing Android game titles to Windows personal computers next year via a desktop Play Games app. The upcoming development was teased by Google Thursday during the 2021 Game Awards Show with a 15-second advertisement that only revealed that it would permit gamers to play Android games on PCs, its release in 2022 ...
CloudBees lands $245M in new financing to innovate enterprise software delivery
Enterprise-focused software delivery platform CloudBees Inc. said today that it raised $150 million in a new funding round at a $1 billion valuation, plus an additional $95 million debt facility to accelerate product growth. The Series F funding round was led by client vehicles advised by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, with new investments from Morgan ...
Headroom launches AI-enhanced videoconferencing to bring humanity back to meetings
Headroom Inc., a startup that provides a videoconferencing platform, today announced the launch of its service to take on Zoom, Meet and Teams by using artificial intelligence to transform meetings and make them more human. With the global pandemic, more workforces have gone to remote and hybrid, making videoconferencing more of a norm. This also ...
TRM Labs raises $60M for blockchain forensics and risk management
Blockchain risk management startup TRM Labs today announced it has raised $60 million in new funding led by Tiger Global to support its mission to combat cryptocurrency fraud and financial crime. The Series B funding round also saw participation from a number of investors, among them credit card and payment processing companies including Visa Inc., ...