H.I.G. Growth Partners and Energize Ventures jointly led a $42 million series C round of fundraising for Sitetracker, a multi-site project management tool created to track and manage crucial infrastructure projects. Sitetracker, based in Palo Alto, was founded in 2013 and enables businesses in sectors including energy, telecom, and electric vehicles (EVs) to remotely deploy…
In the Internet sector, The Technology 202 Mozilla TikTok tiktokzakrzewski has one of the strongest prohibitions on political advertising. However, partisan influencers are slipping between the cracks on the social network, researchers claim, exposing a crucial gap in the company’s regulations. More than a dozen instances of platform influencers posting without even the most basic…
Concerns concerning racial bias in open-source software have been raised by a recent research. According to a recently released study, software professionals with names that seem white may succeed on GitHub more than developers whose names are viewed as Black, Hispanic, or Asian-Pacific Islander. The results, which were earlier this year published in IEEE Transactions…
One of the biggest health tech companies in Nashville has received funding that might speed up its expansion Xsolis lands. nashvillebased xsolis ai silicon valley. According to a press release, Greenwich, Connecticut-based investment group Brighton Park Capital has invested $75 million in data analytics startup Xsolis (stylized XSOLIS). According to the press release, Xsolis, which…
As the tablet Apple still top tablet maker market grew by more than 50% year over year in the first quarter of 2021, Apple’s iPad continued to hold the lion’s share of the market idc yoy 39.9m q1 12.7m samsung. IDC’s latest data shows that worldwide tablet shipments increased by 55.2% year over year to…
We wrote on the closure of flexible workspace provider Knotel co-founder knotel 1b ann azevedotechcrunch earlier this year. The once-flying firm had just revealed that it had filed for bankruptcy and that investor and commercial real estate agency Newmark would purchase its assets for an estimated $70 million. For a business that had been valued…
Yousician CO Chris Thür acknowledged that he wasn’t the most obvious candidate to launch a business focused on music teaching. Thür, a former laser researcher, described a meeting with an investor who initially inquired about the co-founders’ musical or teaching backgrounds before going “through the list of all the things that would partly prepare us…
Today, Substack februarykastrenakes theverge introduces a long-awaited new feature: the capacity to modify the appearance of newsletters. Writers can now pick a different font for the title and body of posts as well as their background and accent colours. There are only a few customization options, but they should help Substack newsletters differentiate themselves from one…
Again, here we are Project Jengo Redux. Sable Networks, a firm that doesn’t seem to have conducted a legitimate business in almost ten years, filed a lawsuit against Cloudflare on March 15 citing patents that have nothing to do with the nature of our company or the services we offer. We have now encountered a…
A U.S. federal judge has rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request to temporarily halt Meta’s acquisition of virtual reality (VR) company Within. The FTC had raised concerns about the potential for the deal to reduce competition in the VR market and harm consumers. However, the judge found that the FTC had not provided sufficient…
