MicroStrategy rebrands as Strategy; its new logo has a stylized “B” for its BTC strategy and orange is its primary color for “energy, intelligence, and Bitcoin”
Strategy unveils new name, Bitcoin logo, and orange brand color AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo : MicroStrategy Says Drop the Micro, It's Cleaner Tanaya Macheel / CNBC : Wall Street analysts cheer greater clar...
Luminar, a lidar tech startup backed by Peter Thiel, Volvo, and GoPro's founder Nick Woodman, plans to go public via a $3.4B merger with a SPAC
Bloomberg : Tweets: @fpontaza , @thestalwart , and @dstrachman Tweets: Fernando Pontaza / @fpontaza : 5 years ago two Guatemalans walked into a room in SF and met a teacher and a philosopher that had...
Spotify buys podcast producer Gimlet Media, sources say for ~$230M, and Anchor, a startup which makes it easier for users to record and distribute podcasts
1. Rare double win for @betaworks and (GV and private) @mgsiegler / @msquinn 2. Gimlet far less valuable than Anchor in long run, but content is hard so it's a jump start.3. Audio = asynchronous = hug...
South African media giant Naspers to sell 2% of its stake in Tencent for ~$10.6B; Naspers invested $32M in Tencent in 2001
for $10.6 Billion Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha : Naspers sells $10.6B of Tencent shares Tweets: Joe Weisenthal / @thestalwart : This is absolutely incredible. The South African media company Naspers in...
Amazon expands beyond just selling books in Brazil as it opens an electronics and appliances marketplace
Online retailer introduces electronics, appliances marketplace — E-commerce giant has sold books in Brazil for five years — Amazon.com Inc. is ready to commit to Brazil. Kind of, sort of. Tweets:...