Gradient Ventures, Google's AI fund, leads $7M investment in English learning app Elsa | New VMware Kubernetes product comes courtesy of Heptio acquisition | Light is expanding from smartphone cameras to self-driving cars | Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries | Tinder launches a Spring Break mode | OnePlus, EE and Qualcomm starts a contest for 5G apps | SpaceX gets NASA's approval to test launch Crew Dragon |
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 2019
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TOP HEADLINE | Jon Russell | | Google's Gradient Ventures, the search giant's dedicated AI fund, is casting its eye to Asia after it led a $7 million Series A round for Elsa, a startup that operates... Read More… |
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Ron Miller | | VMware announced a new Kubernetes product today called VMware Essential PKS, which has been created from its acquisition of Heptio for $550 million at the end of last year. VMware... Read More… |
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Brian Heater | | This year’s MWC has been very much the beginning of a new phase for Light . Until now, the Palo Alto startup has been best know for its 16-lens DSLR... Read More… |
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Zack Whittaker | | When the government comes for your data, tech companies can't always tell you. But thanks to a legal loophole, companies can say if they haven't had a visit yet That's... Read More… |
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Sarah Perez | | Tinder, the dating app company which, as of late, has been more fully embracing its status as the preferred hook-up app of choice for the younger generation, is today launching... Read More… |
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Matt Burns | | Today at MWC Barcelona OnePlus CEO Pete Lau unveiled an initiative to spur apps for 5G networks. The timing is right, too. With 5G launching around the world this year,... Read More… |
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Jordan Crook | | In a joint press conference, NASA and SpaceX officials said that SpaceX has been approved to conduct the first orbital launch of the Crew Dragon. The launch could come as... Read More… |
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Sarah Perez | | In an effort to one-up Spotify and Apple Music, Pandora this morning announced the launch of a new marketing tool for artists, called Pandora Stories. The feature allows artists to... Read More… |
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Kate Clark | | Dipsea, a mobile platform for erotic audio stories, is backed by Bedrock Capital and Thrive Capital Read More… |
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Ingrid Lunden | | There has been a wave of fintech startups emerging that make different kinds of investing more accessible to a wider pool of people, and today one of them has raised... Read More… |
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