PitchBook: global edtech VC funding reached just $3B in 2024, the lowest amount since $2.3B in 2014, and down from $17.3B at the peak of the pandemic in 2021
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A look at a “smart city” project near Busan, as the South Korean government normalizes surveillance by repurposing its “smart city” systems to battle COVID-19
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How FanDuel outpaced DraftKings to take an estimated 42% share of the US sports wagers market after its sale to Flutter
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg : Tweets: @bw and @ideafaktory Tweets: @bw : FanDuel has nabbed a 42% share of U.S. sports wagers in June, up from 35% only two months earlier https://www.bloomberg.co...
Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, CEO of Signal, as he defends centralization as a necessary condition for Signal's widespread adoption, and for its ease of use
we love seeing it take the spotlight. Signal will be the right tool for some people, but for those of you who want the highest level of security without having to put your phone number in a database, ...
Sources: in a 3-2 vote, FTC commissioners have approved a record $5B settlement with Facebook over the company's privacy violations
or one month's worth of revenue Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation Howard Lindzon : Why Facebook Needs Libra Mark Wyciślik-Wilson ...
Google unveils Stadia, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs that lets users “instantly” play games, coming in 2019 with 4K HDR support at 60FPS
For 20 years, Google has worked … Brad Sams / Thurrott : Phil Spencer on Stadia: Google Went Big Today, We Will Go Big at E3 Kris Holt / Engadget : Leaked memo promises major Xbox streaming news at E3...
With some research saying that permanently baked-in host-read podcast ads are 3.5X more effective, dynamically inserted third party ads have trouble catching on
Max Willens / Digiday : Tweets: @digiday , @digiday , and @ideafaktory See also Mediagazer Tweets: @digiday : In November, HowStuffWorks dumped the third-party ads in its podcasts. Instead, the compa...