Nothing, Carl Pei's hardware startup, has raised $96 million of funding from investors to launch its new smartphone and expand in the US. Story with some previously unreported comments from an interview I did with @getpeid in Barcelona back in March:
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Google Cloud CEO Discusses AI Risks with EU Regulators
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New: in an exclusive interview, the CEO of @googlecloud acknowledged the risks of AI and told me Google is having "productive" early talks with EU officials. "We do want to find a path forward,” Kurian told me at the company's Victoria offices yesterday.
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Lithuania Launches Europe’s Largest Tech Campus in Vilnius
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Lithuania is building a €100 million startup campus in Vilnius. Dubbed "Tech Zity," the development is poised to be Europe's largest tech campus, surpassing even Paris' Station F in size. You can check out what it looks like here:
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Mixed Reality for Financial Inclusion at Money 20/20
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#NewProfilePic (From Money 20/20, chatting with @feldmannews and Liliana Carmona from JPMorgan about mixed reality being a tool for inclusion)
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Amazon Reportedly Interested in Acquiring Ocado
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Big!! Ocado shares are up more than 40% after a Times report that Amazon is among companies interested in buying the company outright. https://
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Netflix facial data privacy concerns in marketing campaigns
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Yes yes I know there's a terrible irony to handing away my valuable (lol) facial data to Netflix for a cheap marketing campaign but… couldn't resist
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Improbable Unveils M² Network Vision for Interconnected Metaverses
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Improbable, the SoftBank-backed VR firm, has finally unveiled its vision for a network of metaverses, M². In many ways, it's similar to what Improbable's been trying to achieve for years – often in the face of difficulty – except at an even bigger scale. https://
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Tech Obsession: Predicting the Unpredictable Future
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It's weird being obsessed with tech that you know what's about to come… but then when it actually does come you somehow don't see it coming sadtimes
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Binance faces SEC lawsuit as MiCA regulation approaches
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There's been no shortage of pain for Binance lately – most recently, the US SEC issued a lawsuit against the firm and its CEO. Notably, Binance has said welcomes the EU's MiCA regulation, which would harmonise rules for crypto. But MiCA won't come into effect until… 2024.
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Zepz $5B Fintech Unicorn Plans M&A Push, New Wallet
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New and exclusive: Zepz, the $5 billion fintech unicorn backed by Accel and TCV, is planning a big push on M&A and looking to roll out a new digital wallet product, hoping to move past the pain of laying off 26% of its workforce.