Monthly Archives: January 2022

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Edtech startup Scaler, which offers upskilling courses like data science and ML to working professionals in India, raises a $55M Series B at a $710M valuation  —  Scaler, an edtech startup that offers upskilling courses to working professionals in India, has raised $55 million in a […]

Reuters: Taiwan-based GlobalWafers’ proposed €4.35B takeover of German chip supplier Siltronic falls apart as Germany’s government misses the approval deadline  —  Germany’s economy ministry said it could not complete its review of a planned sale of chip supplier Siltronic to Taiwanese rival GlobalWafers …

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Deepnote, which offers a collaborative data science platform on top of Jupyter-based notebooks, raises a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures and Accel  —  Deepnote, a startup that is building a data science platform on top of Jupyter-compatible notebooks, today announced that it has raised […]

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Sources: Byju’s is in talks with at least three SPACs for its IPO with plans to finalize in three to four weeks, and might raise a pre-IPO funding of $750M-$1B  —  India’s most valuable startup, the online education provider Byju’s, is in negotiations with at least […]

Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: Education publisher Pearson acquires Credly, which helps businesses issue digital credentials to certify workers’ skills, for $140M  —  Pearson already owned a 20% stake in the digital workforce credentialing platform worth about $40 million but is now buying the entire company.

Reuters: Sources: Cybereason, which offers endpoint detection and response services, has confidentially filed for a US IPO that could value it at more than $5B  —  Cybereason, a security startup backed by SoftBank’s (9984.T) Vision Fund 2 and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud unit …

John Hendel / Politico: Suicide chat service Crisis Text Line says it has ended its data sharing relationship with Loris.ai and has asked Loris to delete existing data  —  “We understand that you don’t want Crisis Text Line to share any data,” the suicide hotline nonprofit wrote in a statement […]

Taylor Lyles / IGN: Discord rolls out the ability for US PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 owners to link their PSN accounts with Discord; support for more countries is coming soon  —  Support will roll out first to US users, though.  —  PlayStation owners will able to connect their accounts […]

Enlarge / (l-r) A quantum gas appears first as an elongated rod. As it rotates, it becomes helical, then it breaks up into blobs, each a swirling mass. Between the blobs tiny vortices appear in a regularly repeating series. (credit: MIT/Nature) Physicists at MIT have succeeded in getting “quantum tornadoes” […]

Monica Alleven / Fierce Wireless: Meta will wind down Express Wi-Fi later this year, its program, launched in 2016, to extend public Wi-Fi access by partnering with ISPs, MNOs in 30+ countries  —  Meta is winding down its Express Wi-Fi program whose mission in part was to extend Wi-Fi by […]