June 5, 20210CommentsIn a letter to Tim Cook, written and edited by about 80 people, Apple employees push back against a policy requiring them to return to the office in September (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge)
June 5, 20210CommentsIn a bid to clean up WeChat livestreaming service, Tencent bans dozens of “violations” including fortune telling, “seductive lip licking”, and nose picking (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
June 5, 20210CommentsRipple Labs files a motion seeking to force the SEC to disclose why it came to the conclusion that bitcoin and ether are commodities, not securities like XRP (James Rubin/CoinDesk)
June 5, 20210CommentsCapchase, a lending service that helps SaaS companies with recurring revenue to grow their operations, raises $125M Series A led by QED Investors (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
June 5, 20210CommentsSynchron, which is developing a brain-computer interface that helps paralysis patients text, email, and shop online, raises $40M Series B led by Khosla Ventures (Andrea Park/FierceBiotech)
June 5, 20210CommentsCross-border payments startup dLocal’s shares closed up 54% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, after raising $617.6M in its IPO, valuing the company at ~$10B (Luisa Beltran/Barron’s Online)
June 4, 20210CommentsXometry, an online marketplace for companies to find manufacturers with excess capacity, files its S-1, revealing a loss of $31M in 2020 on revenue of $141M (Sara Gilgore/Washington …)
June 4, 20210CommentsFacebook taking feedback from critics, and Zuckerberg transparently signing off on a concrete policy change, shows the Board’s valuable, if limited, function (Gilad Edelman/Wired)
June 4, 20210CommentsIBM and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council announce a five-year $297.5M AI and quantum computing research initiative (Damon Poeter/VentureBeat)
