TMtechmemeIndian edtech startup upGrad closes its acquisition of rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal valuing Unacademy at ~$206M, down from its peak $3.5B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMemo: Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38B investment in the video game industry since 2021, is stepping down (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers (Tom Warren/The Verge)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeRoku unveils its first self-branded OLED smart TVs, starting at $999 for 55" and 65" 120Hz models and $1,299 for 144Hz models, sold exclusively via Amazon (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNvidia plans to launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March (Jay Peters/The Verge)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Salesforce is leading a $160M+ raise for HR software company HiBob at a $3.2B+ valuation, up from $2.66B in 2023; HiBob has raised $700M+ since 2015 (Bloomberg)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA look back at Tim Cook's 15-year tenure: Apple silicon, wearables, a $1T market cap, privacy, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Car, AI, App Store battles, and Trump (Emma Roth/The Verge)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeDyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeJohn Ternus takes over as Apple CEO, as Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple (Kalley Huang/New York Times)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeShein ends flat at ~$6.20 per share on its first day of trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange, giving it a $26B market cap after raising $1.7B in its IPO (Jing Yang/The Information)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeTim Cook took Apple's market cap from under $350B in 2011 to $4.6T today, a 2,736% total return, and annual revenue from $157B in FY 2012 to ~$477B in FY 2026 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHow lawn care YouTuber Greg Chism scaled a family channel to 13B views with YouTube's coaching, before YouTube banned it in 2017 following online backlash (Jon Ronson/New York Times)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle raises the price of its Google TV Streamer by $50 to $150 in the US, as well as for "select" Nest cameras and doorbells, citing "rising component costs" (Abner Li/9to5Google)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMicrosoft says it is testing a fix to an outage affecting Exchange Online and Outlook, lasting for 17+ hours from around 11:30AM ET on Monday (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHong Kong-listed Z.ai reports H1 2026 revenue up 5x YoY to ~$142M, with "open platform and API revenue" up 28x to ~$122M, and net loss down 12% YoY to ~$308M (Juro Osawa/The Information)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeStudy: ~33% of UK adults say they used illegal streaming services in the past three months, costing the sports, TV, and film industries ~£1.4B in annual revenue (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFiling: OpenAI denies Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, saying "this dispute is a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else" (Deepa Seetharaman/Reuters)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAs Gov. Josh Shapiro, once a data center champion, calls them "predatory" and imposes guardrails, some in struggling western Pennsylvania welcome the projects (New York Times)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAI startup Mirage streamed a 24-hour "live" AI news show on X on August 11, which cost ~$50K in tokens, featuring realistic avatars that struggled to converse (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)industry15 days ago▲ 24Read story→