June 9, 20210CommentsResearch: cost per click for Amazon search ads was $1.16 in May, up from $0.75 YoY; eMarketer says Amazon’s ad revenue in the US will cross $20B this year (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
June 9, 20210CommentsSolana Labs, which wants to develop a blockchain that is faster and cheaper than Ethereum, raises $314.15M in a private token sale led by a16z and Polychain (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
June 9, 20210CommentsPE firm Carlyle acquires London-based 1e, which helps companies enable hybrid working and manage endpoints, for $270M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
June 9, 20210CommentsBiden signs an EO revoking the Trump-era bans on TikTok and WeChat and says his commerce secretary will investigate any risks to national security and privacy (Makena Kelly/The Verge)
June 9, 20210CommentsSources: Amazon and US delivery app Gopuff explored competing takeover bids for Berlin-based grocery delivery app Flink, which raised $240M last week (Bloomberg)
June 9, 20210CommentsNvidia RTX 3070 Ti review: much faster than the 2070 Super, better memory performance than the 3070, but runs hotter than 3070 and faster 3080 is only $100 more (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
June 9, 20210CommentsCommit raises $6M seed round to match senior engineers to startups they want to work for
June 9, 20210CommentsChartHop, which helps companies create org charts and analyze their staff data, raises $35 Series B led by a16z, sources say at a $300-$400M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
