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Solarisbank raises $224M at a $1.65B valuation to acquire rival banking-as-a-service company Contis and expand its API-based embedded banking tech in Europe (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Solarisbank raises $224M at a $1.65B valuation to acquire...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:Solarisbank raises $224M at a $1.65B valuation to acquire...

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Medallia, which offers customer experience management tools, says PE firm Thoma Bravo will take the company private for $6.4B, after going public in 2019 (Reuters)

Medallia, which offers customer experience management tools,...

Reuters:Medallia, which offers customer experience management tools, says PE firm...

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A look at ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to "detect gunshots", as court filings suggest it frequently alters evidence at the request of police departments (Todd Feathers/VICE)

A look at ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to "detect gunshots",...

Todd Feathers / VICE:A look at ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to “detect gunshots”,...

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Teamflow, which provides 2D virtual offices to promote informal collaboration among remote staff, raises $35M Series B at a $225M valuation led by Coatue (Rebecca Szkutak/Forbes)

Teamflow, which provides 2D virtual offices to promote...

Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes:Teamflow, which provides 2D virtual offices to promote...

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Apple updates iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day flaw that was reportedly actively exploited, making it the 13th zero-day Apple has patched this year (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Apple updates iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day...

Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:Apple updates iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day...

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Profile of Google Cloud boss Thomas Kurian, an Oracle veteran who oversees 37,000 employees and has focused on improving Google's sales teams (Nico Grant/Bloomberg)

Profile of Google Cloud boss Thomas Kurian, an Oracle veteran...

Nico Grant / Bloomberg:Profile of Google Cloud boss Thomas Kurian, an Oracle veteran...

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Facebook announces a new Metaverse product group, with plans to hire hundreds of staff, led by Instagram VP Vishal Shah, reporting to VR/AR VP Andrew Bosworth (Janko Roettgers/Protocol)

Facebook announces a new Metaverse product group, with...

Janko Roettgers / Protocol:Facebook announces a new Metaverse product group, with...

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Google issues a new Enterprise APIs policy, promising that APIs will remain available far into the future, aiming to move past a reputation for killing services (Tom Krazit/Protocol)

Google issues a new Enterprise APIs policy, promising that...

Tom Krazit / Protocol:Google issues a new Enterprise APIs policy, promising that...

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About 1,000 current and former Activision Blizzard employees say the company's response to its recent lawsuit is "insulting", in a letter to leadership (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

About 1,000 current and former Activision Blizzard employees...

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:About 1,000 current and former Activision Blizzard employees...

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Intel says its Foundry Services will build chips for Qualcomm and AWS and lays out a roadmap to catch up with TSMC and Samsung by 2025 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Intel says its Foundry Services will build chips for Qualcomm...

Stephen Nellis / Reuters:Intel says its Foundry Services will build chips for Qualcomm...

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Cloudflare announces Project Pangea, an initiative to offer its suite of network services to local underserved communities for free (The Cloudflare Blog)

Cloudflare announces Project Pangea, an initiative to offer...

The Cloudflare Blog:Cloudflare announces Project Pangea, an initiative to offer...

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Samsung confirms that it won't launch Galaxy Note at its Unpacked event on Aug. 11, says it will launch new Galaxy Z phones and an S Pen designed for foldables (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

Samsung confirms that it won't launch Galaxy Note at its...

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:Samsung confirms that it won't launch Galaxy Note at its...

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ActiveFence, whose tech proactively detects disinformation and other malicious content, raises $100M in a combined Series A and Series B (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

ActiveFence, whose tech proactively detects disinformation...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:ActiveFence, whose tech proactively detects disinformation...

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Nium, a Singapore-based B2B payments company, raises $200M Series D at a $1B+ valuation led by Riverwood Capital, with Temasek, Visa, and others participating (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Nium, a Singapore-based B2B payments company, raises $200M...

Christine Hall / TechCrunch:Nium, a Singapore-based B2B payments company, raises...

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Japanese tennis superstar Naomi Osaka loses in third round to Marketa Vondrousova

Japanese tennis superstar Naomi Osaka loses in third round...

19 min ago Japanese tennis superstar Naomi Osaka loses in third round to Marketa...

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Hidilyn Diaz wins Philippines' first Olympic gold medal with weightlifting

Hidilyn Diaz wins Philippines' first Olympic gold medal...

Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz made history Monday becoming the first athlete from the...