December 20, 20210CommentsFCC settles with AT&T, Verizon, Intrado, and CenturyLink over failed 911 calls during network outages in 2020; the companies will pay $6M collectively (Emma Roth/The Verge)
December 20, 20210CommentsOracle will acquire electronic medical records company Cerner for $28.3B, or $95 per share, in an all-cash deal (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)
December 20, 20210CommentsProfile of Bret Taylor, recently made co-CEO of Salesforce and chairman of Twitter, who joined Salesforce in 2016 after stints at Google and Facebook (Wall Street Journal)
December 20, 20210CommentsBogota-based buy now, pay later service Addi raises $80M in equity and $125M in debt at a $700M valuation and says it is used by 1,000 retailers (Ezra Fieser/Bloomberg)
December 20, 20210CommentsSocial gaming startup Rec Room raises $145M led by Coatue at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in March, and says it has 37M players, up from 2M in March (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
December 20, 20210CommentsBizongo, which offers digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and supply chain financing to businesses, raises a $110M Series D at a $600M valuation (Livemint)
December 20, 20210CommentsAirlines begin preparing for potential FAA flight limits in around 46 large American metro areas, as a new 5G wireless service goes live on January 5 (Wall Street Journal)
December 20, 20210CommentsNigerian startup Metro Africa Express (MAX), which provides vehicle subscription and financing services, raises a $31M Series B to expand within Africa (Annie Njanja/TechCrunch)
December 20, 20210CommentsNew Delhi-based B2B commerce and financing startup OfBusiness raises a $325M Series G at a ~$5B valuation, after raising $200M at a $3B valuation in September (Harsh Upadhyay/Entrackr)