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Toshiba Corp says it is considering a preliminary acquisition proposal that would take the technology conglomerate private. Toshiba said Wednesday that it asked for more details on the proposal it received on Tuesday, was giving it “careful consideration” and would make an announcement “in due course.” Trading in the company’s shares was suspended. The major […]
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Audio-chat app Clubhouse said it will launch a monetization feature for its creators on the platform and that it will not receive any payment from it. Starting Monday, all users will be able to send payments through the platform, Clubhouse said. The payments feature will initially be available among a small test group, and then […]
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SoftBank Group Corp’s Vision Fund 2 and private equity firm Tiger Global Management have invested in Redis Labs, a real-time cloud analytics platform provider, in a late-stage funding round valuing the firm at over $2 billion. Existing investor TCV also participated in the round which raised $110 million, bringing the net amount so far to $347 million, […]
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TOKYO — Taiwan’s Appier Group aims to follow up its successful IPO in Japan with expansion in the U.S. and Europe, its CEO says. But the company faces tough data …
Taiwan’s Appier aims to follow Tokyo IPO with global growth Read More
Jack Dorsey has sold his first tweet ever as an NFT, a nonfungible token. Raking in $2.9 million for the 15-year-old tweet — which reads “just setting up my twttr” — the Twitter CEO immediately handed the proceeds over to GiveDirectly’s Africa charity fund Monday in Bitcoin. Dorsey put the tweet up for sale on […]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sells first tweet as an NFT for $2.9M Read More
Tokyo-based Coconala, the startup behind an online platform under the same name where you can buy and sell knowledge, skills and, experience from users who are willing to teach, announced on …
Japanese skills marketplace Coconala files for IPO valued at over $207M Read More
We just learned that Tokyo-based Clear, the Japanese startup behind a study notes organizer app under the same name, has been acquired by Japanese stationery giant Kokuyo (TSE:7984). Since its launch back in …
Japan’s Clear, study notes organizer app, acquired by stationery giant Kokuyo Read More