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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 ...
The NFT Bay allows people to ‘pirate’ 20TB of blockchain-based digital art
Australian software engineer Geoffrey Huntley has launched a website called The NFT Bay to host 19.5 terabytes of nonfungible token artwork and providing a useful lesson on blockchain technology as well. The NFT Bay’s name and website design both mimic that of The Pirate Bay, a torrent website where people can pirate software, music and movies. ...
Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to improve written communication
Grammarly Inc., the developer of a writing assistant powered by artificial intelligence that helps people communicate effectively, today announced that it raised $200 million in new funding that puts the company’s valuation at a stunning $13 billion. This third funding round was joined by new investors, including Baillie Gifford and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock ...
Google’s Bot-in-a-Box brings conversational AI to more businesses
Google LLC today rolled out Bot-in-a-Box, a new feature for Business Messages that uses the company’s conversational artificial intelligence capabilities to deliver engaging text experiences to customers. Business Messages is an AI-powered system released by Google Cloud that loops in customers via text chats that can be launched from the places that they normally seek ...
AWS makes AI and machine learning tangible with first major art debut at Smithsonian
Amazon Web Services Inc. has commissioned its first-ever major art piece, a site-specific sculpture powered by artificial intelligence and designed by artist and architect Suchi Reddy that will be the centerpiece of the Smithsonian’s “Futures” exhibit. The artwork, called “me + you,” was unveiled today in the 90-foot-tall central rotunda of the Smithsonian’s historic Arts and ...
Flutter devs get more monetization options with Google Mobile Ads SDK
Google LLC today announced the general availability of the Google Mobile Ads software development kit for Flutter opening up more money-making options for mobile developers using the open-source framework. Until today, the GMA SDK has been available only in beta for the past six months while was tested and tweaked, but today it’s ready for ...
OutSystems unveils its next-generation low-code cloud app dev platform
OutSystems, makers of a powerful low-code app development platform, today unveiled the next generation of its visual development environment, Project Neo. OutSystems provides a visual, model-based development environment that permits developers to rapidly design apps by providing drag-and-drop capabilities to reduce repetitive work. The platform also uses artificial intelligence and templates to predict the next ...
Twitter announces major updates to its developer platform and API
Twitter Inc. today announced a number of major updates for its developer platform that the company said would encourage developer innovation. Developers can now get started more easily with the introduction of two new developer account access levels that provide more data for free. The levels are called Essential access and Elevated access. With Essential ...