EQT agrees to sell Japanese automotive electronics manufacturer Pioneer for $1.1B to CarUX, a unit of Taiwan-listed Innolux specializing in smart cockpit tech
EQT AB agreed to sell Pioneer Corp. for $1.1 billion, marking the biggest exit in Japan for the Swedish buyout firm that sees Japan …
Plaid raised $575M at a $6.1B valuation, below its peak $13B+ valuation in 2021, mostly to cover employees' tax bills for those converting RSUs to common stock
Pioneer of open banking will use $575mn raised from BlackRock and others to cover employee taxes and share buybacks
A profile of Joseph Firmage, who co-founded USWeb, which went public with a $2.5B market cap in 1997, and is now being sued by “antigravity machine” investors
Joseph Firmage helped create today's digital economy. These days, he's being sued by antigravity-machine investors … X: @bradstone and @bw . Forums: Slashdot X: Brad Stone / @bradstone : Wild, out-of...
Arvind Mithal, a prolific computer scientist and longtime MIT professor who led the Computation Structures Group in MIT CSAIL, died on June 17 at age 77
A prolific researcher who led the Computation Structures Group in the Computer Science … Mastodon: Andrej Bauer / @andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz : I was saddened today to learn that Arvind Mithral passed...
Klarna partners with Uber to power Uber and Uber Eats payments, adding its Pay Now option in the US, Germany, and Sweden, but not installment-based payments
The Swedish “buy now, pay later” pioneer said Tuesday that its new design would help users find the items they want by using …
Molly Holzschlag, aka “mollydotcom”, a longtime advocate for the open web and accessible, inclusive online design standards, died at 60 on September 5
Pioneer of online design & accessibility — Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed …
Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia Capital, dies at 87
Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia, RIP Dave Morin / @davemorin : He created something that inspires entrepreneurs to both change the world and to achieve their potential. And, I have always loved his ...
Sources: Apple Music had ~21.5M US subscribers as of last week while Spotify had ~22.5M; Apple's service is growing faster than Spotify in UK and Canada
Spotify's lead over Apple's music-streaming service in the US is narrowing, denting the air of invincibility around the recently floated pioneer.
Sources: Groupon has contacted several public companies in the past few months to gauge interest in acquiring it; Groupon's revenues fell 5.6% in 2017 to $2.84B
The daily-deal pioneer's run as an independent company could be nearing an end. — Groupon's 10-year run as an independent company could be coming to an end.
Tumblr's uncertain future demonstrates the difficulty of monetizing internet culture, as do the fortunes of Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and even YouTube
Earlier this month, Verizon completed its acquisition of Yahoo, incorporating the internet-portal pioneer's slate of brands under a new umbrella corporation named, ominously, Oath.