Month: March 2021
Discord’s $10B exit; Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications set IPO price ranges
It’s demo day for the current Y Combinator class, so we’ll have a largely early-stage focus at TechCrunch today. But there’s also a host of late- and super-late-stage news this morning that matters. Let’s get to all of it before we start to talk accelerators, overheated pre-seed valuations and the…
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Valve releases Steam Link app for macOS
Valve is launching a dedicated Steam Link app for macOS this week. The app allows Steam users to stream games from a PC to devices with the Steam Link app installed. While the Steam macOS app has offered streaming already, MacRumors points out that this lightweight Steam Link app is…
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Nokia clocks 4.5Gbps to set new 5G speed record 5G
Nokia says it has broken the 5G speed record, reaching 4.5Gbps on Turk Telecom’s 26GHz mmWave spectrum in Turkey. Several mobile operators and network equipment providers claim to hold various records, basing their claims on different criteria. For example, Nokia itself has achieved speeds of 8Gbps with Finnish operator Elisa.…
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The robots are coming for your office
As the editor-in-chief of The Verge, I can theoretically assign whatever I want, however there is one topic that I have failed to get people at The Verge to write about for years: robotic process automation, or RPA. Admittedly, its not thexciting, but it’s an increasingly important kind of workplace…
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Planting seed investments on tech’s frontiers nets KdT Ventures $50 million for its latest fund
Like other venture investors over the past year, Cain McClary, co-founder of the investment firm KdT Ventures, recently made the jump to Austin. But unlike the rest of them, he was coming from Black Mountain, NC. McClary had spent the better part of the last three years with his co-founder…
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Cloudflare wants to make major under-the-hood changes to your web browser Internet
Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has launched a new service that makes under-the-hood changes to the way web browsers serve up content, with the goal of protecting against security threats. The Cloudflare Browser Isolation service runs browser sessions in the cloud as opposed to locally, creating a gap between devices and…
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