Casa Verde Capital, the investment fund co-founded by cannabis connoisseur Snoop Dogg (also known as Calvin Broadus), has closed on $100 million for its second investment fund, according to documents filed with the SEC. The fund, whose managing director, Karan Wadhera declined to comment for this article, has managed to raise more cash just as [âŠ] Read more âș
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A coalition of companies have filed an amicus brief in support of a legal case brought by WhatsApp against Israeli intelligence firm NSO Group, accusing the company of using an undisclosed vulnerability in the messaging app to hack into at least 1,400 devices, some of which were owned by journalists and human rights activists. NSO develops [âŠ] Read more âș
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We look at the tech implications of the new stimulus bill, Lockheed Martin makes a big rocket engine acquisition and Google Cloud expands. This is your Daily Crunch for December 21, 2020. The big story: Stimulus bill includes money for broadband and energy The $900 billion pandemic relief bill that lawmakers agreed on over the [âŠ] Read more âș
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The demise of the Apple car, the technology giantâs not-so-secret secret project, was perhaps overstated. Appleâs so-called Project Titan, which last year reduced the team by some 200 employees, is not only alive, it has plans to produce an electric passenger vehicle with âbreakthrough battery technologyâ and automated vehicle technology by 2024, according to a [âŠ] Read more âș
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Here in the final few working days of 2020, a surprising number of new unicorns have come to light. The mad scramble that investors are seeing in seed-stage startups appears to be reflected across the later stages as well. That deal-making is still alive is not a surprise, but the cadence at which the market [âŠ] Read more âș
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Peloton has announced that it intends to acquire Precor, one of the worldâs largest suppliers of commercial fitness equipment. You probably recognize the Precor brand name if youâve ever spent time in a hotel or standalone commercial gym, which is exactly why Peloton making this purchase makes a ton of sense at this particular time for [âŠ] Read more âș
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"We don't shy away from taking risks," said Spacefund's Meagan Crawford. Read more âș
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Breaches of this magnitude are going to happen. If theyâre something your organization needs to be resilient against, then itâs best to be prepared for them. Read more âș
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If youâve ever heard someone refer to the idea of âworking in space,â youâd be forgive for thinking they were describing a science fiction plot. But the number of humans actively working beyond Earthâs atmosphere â and living significant chunks of their lives there, too â is about to start growing at a potentially exponential [âŠ] Read more âș
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The new economic stimulus proposal that has been approved by Congress includes roughly $35.2 billion for energy initiatives, according to summary documents seen by TechCrunch. âThis is probably the biggest energy bill weâve seen in a decade,â said policy analyst Dr. Leah Stokes, an Assistant Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management [âŠ] Read more âș
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Twitter is rolling out new features to its developer community with an update to its recently rebuilt Twitter API. One addition to the now expanded collection of API v2 endpoints will allow app developers to eventually better support Twitterâs newer conversation controls â the feature that allows users to specify who can reply to their [âŠ] Read more âș
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Unlike unicorn companies, zebras are lean, efficient and consistent. Read more âș
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This yearâs economic downturn has been a challenge for the current class of fintech startups: Some have grown nicely, while others have struggled, but the vast majority of them have changed their focus. Read more âș
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Space may be the final frontier, but in terms of investment, VCs are just getting started. Read more âș
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Itâs been a busy year of expansion for the large cloud providers, with AWS, Azure and Google aggressively expanding their data center presence around the world. To cap off the year, Google Cloud today announced a new set of cloud regions, which will go live in the coming months and years. These new regions, which [âŠ] Read more âș
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Bolt, a startup that offers online checkout technology to retailers, announced this morning that it has added $75 million to its Series C round, bringing the financing to a total of $125 million. WestCap and General Atlantic led the new tranche, which Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow told TechCrunch was raised at around twice its Series [âŠ] Read more âș
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The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here â just click The Station â to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hi friends and new readers, welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to [âŠ] Read more âș
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IBM has been busy since it announced plans to spin out its legacy infrastructure management business in October, placing an all-in bet on the hybrid cloud. Today, it built on that bet by acquiring Helsinki-based multi-cloud consulting firm Nordcloud. The companies did not share the purchase price. Nordcloud fits neatly into this strategy with 500 [âŠ] Read more âș
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The U.S. government is one of the biggest spenders in the nascent space industry and the man who handles the money for the Air Forceâs $16 billion checkbook wants startups to know that his door is open for them. In all, Will Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Spotify users have Wrapped and Instagram users have their Top 9. And now TikTok users will have their own year-in-review feature, too. The company today announced the launch of its first personalized annual recap feature with the launch of âYear on TikTok,â a video highlight reel that showcases individual usersâ own top TikTok moments. This [âŠ] Read more âș
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