Month: April 2021
Vietnamese electric motorbike startup Dat Bike raises $2.6M led by Jungle Ventures
Son Nguyen, founder and chief executive officer of Dat Bike Dat Bike, a Vietnamese startup with ambitions to become the top electric motorbike company in Southeast Asia, has raised $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures. Made in Vietnam with mostly domestic parts, Dat Bike’s selling point…
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Telstra flash sale knocks AU$150 off the iPhone 12 and 12 mini iphone 12 review
Telstra discounted each iPhone by AU$100 last month, but now it’s back with an even better deal – the telco has cut AU$150 off the price of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini. It’s part of Telstra’s seven-day flash sale and, along with the AU$150 discount on the 12…
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Three reasons why Epic Games can give away $17.5 billion worth of games for free
The Epic Games Store gives away free games every week — often good ones — and yet the company has never explained how it’s managed to dole out 749 million copies without going bankrupt. Until now. New documents published as part of the legal discovery process for Epic’s major antitrust…
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Fujifilm’s GFX100S now comes with a free pro training session in Australia Fujifilm GFX100S
Medium format photography has, so far, been the realm of the professionals, with high resolution 100MP cameras costing more than just an arm and a leg, and being too large to go walkabout with. That all changed when Fujifilm announced the GFX100S in February this year. Not only is it…
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Binance Labs leads $1.6M seed round in DeFi startup MOUND, the developer of Pancake Bunny
Decentralized finance startup MOUND, known for its yield farming aggregator Pancake Bunny, has raised $1.6 million in seed funding led by Binance Labs. Other participants included IDEO CoLab, SparkLabs Korea and Handshake co-founder Andrew Lee. Built on Binance Smart Chain, a blockchain for developing high-performance DeFi apps, MOUND says Pancake…
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A robotic spacecraft just latched onto an active satellite in orbit
A robotic spacecraft from Northrop Grumman latched onto an old communications satellite in deep orbit and extended its lifespan by five more years. The Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) marked Northrop’s second successful docking of an object in space. The mission is part of the company’s efforts to kickstart an industry…
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