Month: February 2020
Astranis raises $90 million for its next-gen satellite broadband internet service
YC-backed Astranis has raised $90 million of new combined debt and equity funding in a Series B round led Venrock, with a sizeable contribution by existing investor (and lead of their 2018 round) Andreessen Horowitz. The funding will be used to help the company launch its first commercial satellites, which…
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Mobile Industry Awards 2020 – Four weeks to go!
Running for more than a decade, the Mobile Industry Awards represent the gold standard of excellence in the industry. From the boardroom to the grassroots, the attendees represent the best and brightest the UK and European mobile industry has to offer. The status of the awards has seen previous winners…
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WhatsApp Messenger just crossed 2 billion users worldwide
WhatsApp Messenger has now amassed a whopping two billion users across the world, growing fourfold since Facebook acquired it. Back in 2014, Facebook paid a sum of $21.8 billion to bring WhatsApp under its umbrella. It had 500 million users at that time. By 2016, it crossed a billion users, showing…
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WhatsApp Pay granted permissions to roll out in India
Facebook’s efforts to bring WhatsApp Pay to India are finally bearing fruits, as it has been granted permissions by the NPCI to operate in a limited capacity. WhatsApp Pay is a digital payment solution that integrates payments in the messaging app and lets users send and receive money. It is supposed to…
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AI tool can now update outdated Wikipedia content
Researchers at MIT have developed a system that can automatically update outdated and factually inconsistent data in Wikipedia articles. The automated tool is able to save time spent by real-life editors by replacing information in sentences with accuracy while retaining human-like tone and grammar. The researchers used two different databases…
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Facebook Dating misses European launch for Valentine’s Day over regulatory dispute
Facebook has been forced to postpone the launch of its dating service in Europe after a regulator in Ireland raised data protection concerns, The Wall Street Journal reports. Under EU rules, companies have to conduct a data processing impact assessment (DPIA) before launching a product or service that could impact…
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