December 18, 20210CommentsByteDance launches Douyin Box, a fashion-focused shopping app in China akin to its Fanno app in Europe, betting on the Gen Z trend of buying on influencer tips (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
December 18, 20210CommentsIndia’s antitrust watchdog CCI suspends Amazon’s 2019 deal with Future Group and fines Amazon ~$27M for concealing facts while seeking regulatory approval (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
December 18, 20210CommentsDisney fails to reach a deal with YouTube TV, removing 17+ channels including ABC, Disney, ESPN, Freeform, and FX; YouTube TV drops its price to $49.99/month (The Streamable)
December 18, 20210CommentsBandLab, a Singapore-based music creation platform enabling artists to collaborate and engage with fans, raises a $53M Series B at a $303M post-money valuation (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
December 18, 20210CommentsOphelia, whose telemedicine platform helps treat people struggling with opioid addiction, raises $50M led by Tiger Global at a $275M valuation (Manas Mishra/Reuters)
December 18, 20210CommentsSigma Computing, which offers no-code, cloud-based data analytics tools, raises a $300M Series C co-led by D1 Capital and XN, brings its total raised to $381.3M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
December 18, 20210CommentsThoma Bravo agrees to acquire, and take private, business payments company Bottomline Technologies, in an all-cash deal valuing it at about $2.6B (Reuters)
December 18, 20210CommentsJPMorgan Chase will pay $125M to the SEC and $75M to the CFTC for letting some employees use WhatsApp and other unapproved methods to conduct official business (UPI)
December 18, 20210CommentsReport: 77% of employees living with disabilities say their workplace has improved accessibility
December 18, 20210CommentsTSMC unveils N4X, a fab process it says enables 15% improved performance over N5 and tailored for high-performance computing, especially server CPUs and SoCs (Anton Shilov/AnandTech)
