Daily Archives: October 27, 2021

Eli Tan / CoinDesk: QuickNode, which helps developers build blockchain apps, raises a $35M Series A led by Tiger Global, following a $5.3M seed round in May  —  The Series A follows a $5.3 million seed round earlier this year and includes participation from Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian and entrepreneur […]

Enlarge / Coming in June 2022 to “theaters.” (credit: Disney Pixar) While nobody was necessarily asking for an origin story film about Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear, the combined powers of Disney and Pixar sure seem intent on making such a concept look as appealing and epic as possible. Seriously: […]

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Skyryse, which develops a flight automation operating system called FlightOS, raises a $200M Series B co-led by Fidelity and Monashee Investment Management  —  Five-year-old startup Skyryse has raised a $200 million Series B to develop FlightOS, a flight automation technology stack …

Bloomberg: After raising $357M in its IPO, Rent the Runway closes at $19.29, down 8% from its $23 opening price, valuing the company at $1.2B  —  – Shares open above price in $357 million IPO before dropping  — CEO says company will push subscription sign-ups in marketing

Emily Bary / MarketWatch: eBay Q3: revenue of $2.5B, vs. $2.46B estimates, up 11% YoY, gross merchandise value of $19.5B, down 10% YoY, 154M active buyers, up 5% YoY, stock down 6%+  —  Company has moved nearly all sellers over to managed-payments initiative  —  EBay Inc. exceeded expectations with its […]

Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: Twilio Q3: rev. of $740.2M vs. $681M est., up 65% YoY, loss of $224.1M, up from $116.9M YoY, 250K+ active customer accounts, up from 208K YoY; stock down 11%+  —  Twilio said Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rate was 131%, down from 137% in the prior-year period.

Enlarge / The site of the X-ray source in the Whirlpool Galaxy. (credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. DiStefano, et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/Grendler) The Milky Way is full of planets, and it’s very likely that they are plentiful in other galaxies as well. But there’s a big difference between it being likely that planets […]

Enlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours. B. pseudomallei is a Gram-negative aerobic bacteria, and it’s the causative agent of melioidosis. (credit: Getty | CDC/Larry Stauffer, Oregon State Public Health Laboratory) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed that an aromatherapy gemstone […]

Enlarge / Feel free to repair this PS3 disc drive. (credit: Getty Images | sydmsix) The librarian of Congress has provided a new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will let people repair optical drives on video game consoles. The new rule will also let users perform “diagnosis, […]

Nancy Scola / New York Magazine: Interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan on leading the agency, its regulatory failures and avoiding future missteps, Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and more  —  Lina Khan was an associate professor at Columbia Law, working remotely from Texas, when she found out that President Joe Biden […]