Ingrid Lunden
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Papaya Global raises $40M for a payroll and HR platform aimed at global workforces
Workforces are getting more global, and people who work day in, day out for organizations don’t always sit day in, day out in a single office, in a single country, to get a job done. Today, one
Rally raises $17M to expand a platform that lets you invest in (but not buy) collectibles
When people ponder the investment opportunity around collectibles, they probably think about things like wine auctions, sales of very expensive old cars or baseball cards, or maybe a pocket watch that
PayCargo raises $35M from Insight for its cloud-based platform targeting the freight industry
Shipping has long been one of the more antiquated, and least technological, segments in the world of commerce, with its physical aspects — rooted in massive cargo tankers, giant fleets of aircra
Amazon’s Prime Day mega sale event will take place October 13-14
Holiday shopping season is getting a big head start this year. Amazon today announced that it will hold Prime Day — its annual mega global sale event on a big range of items, including toys, TVs
European Commission to appeal decision that reversed Apple’s $15B State Aid tax bill in Ireland
It’s not over until it’s over for Apple and its ongoing tax headache in Europe. Today the European Commission announced that it plans to appeal the July 2020 ruling that overturned the ori
LinkedIn launches Stories, plus Zoom, BlueJeans and Teams video integrations as part of wider redesign
With the employment market remaining sluggish as the world continues to struggle with COVID-19, a company that has built its popular businesses largely around recruitment is launching a redesign that
Spectrum Labs raises $10M for its AI-based platform to combat online toxicity
With the U.S. presidential election now 40 days away, all eyes are focused on how online conversations, in conjunction with other hallmarks of online life like viral videos, news clips and misleading
Ripjar, founded by GCHQ alums, raises $36.8M for AI that detects financial crime
Financial crime as a wider category of cybercrime continues to be one of the most potent of online threats, covering nefarious activities as diverse as fraud, money laundering and funding terrorism. T
Salsify nabs $155M as its commerce experience platform sees a big surge of business from COVID-19
As traditional brands grapple with a new world where selling online is as much or perhaps even more important than how you are positioned in a physical store, a startup that helps them get all their i
EasySend raises $16M from Intel, more for its no-code approach to automating B2C interfaces
No-code and low-code software have become increasingly popular ways for companies — especially those that don’t count technology as part of their DNA — to bring in more updated IT pr
TikTok says it removed 104M videos in H1 2020, proposes harmful content coalition with other social apps
As the future of ByteDance’s TikTok ownership continues to get hammered out between tech and retail leviathans, investors and government officials, the video app today published its latest trans
A meeting room of one’s own: Three VCs discuss breaking out of big firms to start their own gigs
One of the more salient trends in the tech world — arguably the engine that propels it — has been the recurring theme of people who hone talents at bigger companies and then strike out on
Instagram CEO, ACLU slam TikTok and WeChat app bans for putting US freedoms into the balance
As people begin to process the announcement from the U.S. Department of Commerce detailing how it plans, on grounds of national security, to shut down TikTok and WeChat — starting with app downl
In the WeChat, TikTok US shutdown order, TikTok gets Nov. 12 stay, keeping it up through the US election and Oracle dealmaking
The U.S. Commerce Department has now announced the details of how it will enforce the shutdown of TikTok and WeChat in the country, after announcing in August plans to do so by September 20 over nati
Impact, a YC-style accelerator for the entertainment industry, spins out from Imagine Entertainment with backing from Benchmark
Hollywood has been better known for making films and TV shows about the tech industry than it has been for being a part of it, but today a new enterprise is launching, backed by a major Silicon Valley
Supercell’s CEO talks about its majority owner Tencent, finding its next hit and more
Mobile games maker Supercell has been one of the great, understated breakthroughs of the European startup world. The Helsinki-based mobile games maker built an empire out of Clash of Clans, raking in
A conversation with Tunde Kehinde of Lidya on finance and the digital divide
Small and medium businesses have been some of the hardest hit in the COVID-19 pandemic. And all that has been as true in emerging markets as it has been for SMBs in the developed world. Tunde Kehinde
Narrator raises $6.2M for a new approach to data modelling that replaces star schema
Snowflake went public this week, and in a mark of the wider ecosystem that is evolving around data warehousing, a startup that has built a completely new concept for modelling warehoused data is annou
User-generated e-learning site Kahoot acquires Actimo for up to $33M to double down on corporate sector
Norwegian company Kahoot originally made its name with a platform that lets educators and students create and share game-based online learning lessons, in the process building up a huge public catalog
Apple unveils its super fast five nanometer A14 chip, shipping in the new iPad Air next month
No iPhone 12 announced today, but Apple unveiled a new chip that will power the next generation of its hardware (including that phone whenever it’s launched). The A14 Bionic, which will ship fir