June 15, 20210CommentsThe Senate votes 69-28 to confirm Lina Khan, an antitrust expert who wrote the “Amazon Antitrust Paradox”, to the FTC, giving Democrats a majority (The Verge)
June 15, 20211CommentBitwise Asset Management, known for managing crypto index funds, raises $70M Series B co-led by Elad Gil and Electric Capital and says it’s now valued at $500M+ (Jacquelyn Melinek/Blockworks)
June 15, 20210CommentsFormative, a student learning and analytics service with at least one teacher signed up in 92% of all US school districts, raises $70M led by Summit Partners (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
June 15, 20210CommentsApp Annie and IDC: in Q1 worldwide, consumers spent $1.7B per week on mobile games, up 40% from pre-pandemic levels; 2021 mobile spend predicted to reach $120B (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
June 15, 20210CommentsShopify expands its one-click checkout, Shop Pay, to any merchant on Facebook or Google in the US, even if they don’t use Shopify to power their online stores (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
June 15, 20210CommentsMayor Bill Peduto will be speaking at TechCrunch City Spotlight: Pittsburgh on June 29
June 15, 20210CommentsAll 511 Apple Stores are open in some capacity today for the first time in over 17 months, according to data from Apple’s website (Michael Steeber/9to5Mac)
June 15, 20210CommentsIterable, which offers AI-powered cross-channel sales and marketing tools, raises $200M Series E, giving the company a $2B post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
