Enterprise messaging service Slack is raising a $250 million round at a $5 billion valuation, TechCrunch has confirmed. We’re hearing that SoftBank, Accel Partners and other existing investors participated.
The $250 million financing amount was reported by Bloomberg. Axios first had the names of the lead investors. Recode originally reported on a $500 million round last month, but… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
When it comes to initial coin offerings, or ICOs, there’s plainly a lot that investors still don’t understand. Though start-ups and founders have raised more than $1 billion so far 2017 by selling custom-made virtual currencies to anyone willing to buy them, it’s been unclear whether and which tokens might eventually be categorized as securities; how ICOs impact… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Smallest spacecraft ever launched makes it into low-earth orbit, the SEC starts regulating ICOs and a new dating app only for verified Twitter users. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
It’s official — Amazon has launched its Prime New delivery service in Singapore, its first market in Southeast Asia. The Amazon apps went live in Singapore early last night local time, and Prime Now — an aggressive two-hour delivery service — is available to Singapore’s population of over five million people from today. The launch includes “tens of thousands… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The new USB 3.2 standard will potentially double data transfer speeds to 20 gigabits per second. So when will we get to see it?
Source: CNET
Foxconn, along with a bevy of U.S. political leaders, announced it will build a $10 billion LCD display manufacturing plant in Wisconsin, which could create as many as 13,000 jobs after it opens in 2020.
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Source: Digital trends
A security researcher exposes software flaws that could prevent detection of radioactive leaks or aid in smuggling radioactive material.
Source: Wired
During ChinaJoy 2017, HTC said that it teamed up with Qualcomm to provide a stand-alone VR headset for the Chinese market. The details are scarce, but it won’t involve Google, meaning the unit won’t support the Daydream platform.
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Source: Digital trends
Today at ChinaJoy, HTC announced that it is working on a standalone headset for Chinese markets built on its own Viveport content platform. The headset appears to be cosmetically identical to the one which HTC is bringing to the U.S. with Google. The differences between the headsets seem to lie largely on the differences in tracking technologies and VR platforms themselves. While the U.S.… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
A new, targeted malware called Lipizzan could completely take over an Android device until Android Security shut it down
Source: Wired