Month: February 2020
Equal Ventures raises debut $56M fund to double down on thesis-driven seed
There has been a proliferation of venture capital the past few years, as funds go up and down the stack looking for unique and high-return opportunities in the startup landscape. Large funds are increasingly investing in small rounds, which has forced seed investors to answer much more carefully why they…
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It just got easier to watch YouTube videos while you’re browsing in Chrome
The arrival of global media controls for Chrome meant that users were given an easy way to play, pause and navigate audio and video playing on a website. Now Google has added a new option to the Canary build of the web browser that makes it possible to pop out…
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Randori introduces “Red Team” attack platform as a service
Companies spend a lot of money and time testing their security defenses (or at least they should). Sometimes they hire a set of consultants called a “red team” to attack their systems and see where vulnerabilities are in a safe way. Today, Randori, a Boston-based security startup, introduced Randori Attack…
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Dead Cells’ The Bad Seed expansion has sucked me back into the abyss
I was only a few minutes into Dead Cells’ new The Bad Seed expansion before I knew I was hooked all over again. The expansion, the first paid update for the indie roguelike at $4.99, adds a few new areas that fork off the main path of the game’s linear…
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Lightroom now supports split-screen multitasking on the iPad
Adobe has announced a few new updates for Lightroom across every platform it runs on. One of the biggest additions is Split View support for full-on side-by-side multitasking in iPadOS, which is a natural next step now that Lightroom lets you import files directly. That process should also be “smoother”…
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Music streaming pioneer SoundCloud raises $75M from Pandora owner SiriusXM
SoundCloud, the music streaming company that has at times been described as the “YouTube of audio” because of its profusion of user-generated content, has some big, strategic investment news today. The company has raised another $75 million in funding, this time from the satellite radio giant SiriusXM, owner of streaming…
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