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Madrid-based Playtomic, an app for booking tennis and padel courts and connecting 1M+ active players in 34 countries, raises a €56M Series C led by GP Bullhound (Patricia Allen/EU-Startups)

Madrid-based Playtomic, an app for booking tennis and padel courts and connecting 1M+ active players in 34 countries, raises a €56M Series C led by GP Bullhound  —  Leading tennis…

Sources: Box is exploring a sale, discussing a potential deal with other companies and PE firms, amid pressure from hedge fund Starboard over stock performance (Reuters)

Sources: Box is exploring a sale, discussing a potential deal with other companies and PE firms, amid pressure from hedge fund Starboard over stock performance  —  (Reuters) – U.S. cloud…

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Intel unveils four chip families, including Intel Core H-series for laptop gaming and Core vPro focused on hardware-based security, for the enterprise market (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Intel unveils four chip families, including Intel Core H-series for laptop gaming and Core vPro focused on hardware-based security, for the enterprise market  —  Intel is aiming for a comeback,…

karachibased abhi smbs 17m speedinvest 90m

Karachi-based lending app Abhi, which offers loans to people and SMBs, raises a $17M Series A led by Speedinvest at a $90M valuation and says it has 650K users (Faseeh Mangi/Bloomberg)

Karachi-based lending app Abhi, which offers loans to people and SMBs, raises a $17M Series A led by Speedinvest at a $90M valuation and says it has 650K users  — …

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As protests against military coup grow in Myanmar, NetBlocks Internet Observatory says the country’s internet connectivity fell to 16% of ordinary levels (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

As protests against military coup grow in Myanmar, NetBlocks Internet Observatory says the country’s internet connectivity fell to 16% of ordinary levels  —  Myanmar’s military leaders are extending their  — …

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LinkedIn announces the formation of a global creator management team, led by its EIC Dan Roth, aiming to support and grow content creators on the platform (Sara Fischer/Axios)

LinkedIn announces the formation of a global creator management team, led by its EIC Dan Roth, aiming to support and grow content creators on the platform  —  LinkedIn is building…

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How self-driving startups Wayve, Waabi, and Autobrains are using end-to-end AI learning, hoping to leapfrog market leaders like Cruise and Waymo (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

How self-driving startups Wayve, Waabi, and Autobrains are using end-to-end AI learning, hoping to leapfrog market leaders like Cruise and Waymo  —  The mainstream approach to driverless cars is slow…

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Orum, which speeds up ACH bank payments by using AI to assess risk, raises $21M Series A led by Bain Capital (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)

Orum, which speeds up ACH bank payments by using AI to assess risk, raises $21M Series A led by Bain Capital  —  Today you can load a movie on Netflix…

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Slack confirms it has been experiencing a widespread outage since 10am ET (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

Slack confirms it has been experiencing a widespread outage since 10am ET  —  Users began reporting problems around 10AM ET  —  Slack is down on the first full work day…

taiwanbased globalwafers 4.35b german siltronic

Taiwan-based GlobalWafers’ proposed €4.35B takeover of German chip supplier Siltronic falls apart as Germany’s government misses the approval deadline (Reuters)

Taiwan-based GlobalWafers’ proposed €4.35B takeover of German chip supplier Siltronic falls apart as Germany’s government misses the approval deadline  —  Germany’s economy ministry said it could not complete its review…