UK provisionally approves Broadcom’s $69B VMware acquisition
The U.K.’s competition authority has said that it plans to greenlight Broadcom’s $69 billion bid for virtualization software giant VMware. The news comes exactly a week...
Pimax Delays VR Headset Shell for Its Nintendo Switch-style Handheld Portal – Tech Live Trends
Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-style handheld that can be used as a VR headset, is experiencing a bit of a road bump, as the...
Reliance-backed Dunzo defers staff pay again amid funding search
Dunzo, a hyperlocal delivery startup in India, is postponing employee salaries for a month and intends to settle remaining dues from the previous month also...
India is now Apple’s fifth largest market for iPhone sales, ahead of Germany and France
Apple has long been a global leader in the smartphone market, and counts the likes of the US, the UK, and China as its key...
Nigeria’s MyCover.ai to scale its open insurance API platform with new funding
Africa’s insurance market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% between 2022 and 2028, reaching $120 billion. Though seemingly...
Neura Robotics picks up $55M to ramp up in cognitive robotics
Neura Robotics, a German startup that since 2019 has been building cognitive robots — machines that possess memory, the ability to operate across a complex...
Korean fashion platform Musinsa bags $190M Series C led by KKR at a $2.7B valuation
Musinsa, a Seoul-based fashion marketplace, said Wednesday it has raised a $190 million round of Series C funding led by KKR, with participation from Wellington...
Thousands of authors sign letter urging AI makers to stop stealing books
If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair...
Microsoft rolls out Bing Chat Enterprise in preview, announces pricing for 365 Copilot
Soon after it announced an expansion of its partnership with Meta to roll out Llama 2 for commercial use for free, Microsoft has now announced...
What are public market investors looking for in IPOs?
Jeremy Abelson Contributor More posts by this contributor Investors prefer debt over equity (but not venture debt) You’re not going to grow into your 2021...