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Image Credits: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Igor Golovniov / Getty Images Pinterest announced a new ad deal with Google as the company aims to ramp up its ad revenue. Google is the social platform’s second third-party ad partner after Amazon signed a multiyear deal with Pinterest last year. The company talked about the Google partnership during the earnings call for Q4 2023, where it posted results below analyst expectations. Pinterest’s revenue for the period was $981… Source link

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 4, 2022! Yesterday we noted that startup news was kicking off the year a little light, but that that would change quickly. And change it has. In the following we have IPO news, robot news, canned-water startup news, acquisitions and more. Let’s go! —Alex The TechCrunch Top 3

Cybersecurity breaches are at a high watermark, and so any company serious about expanding its credibility and business in enterprise IT has to continue investing in tackling it. To that end, Google is kicking off the new year by stepping up its operations in cloud-based and enterprise security. Today the company confirmed that it has acquired Siemplify, an Israel-based cybersecurity startup that specializes in end-to-end security services for enterprises, typically referred to as… Source link

“The Boss” is cashing in — and that could have big implications for the music business. This week, Bruce Springsteen sold both his master recordings and publishing rights to Sony Music in a deal worth north of $500 million, according to multiple outlets. Sony Music and Springsteen did not immediately respond to Yahoo Finance’s request for comment.  Sony has been Springsteen’s home for the past five decades. Thanks to this deal, the studio will now have full ownership of the rocker’s entire… Source link

Virgin Galactic Holdings (SPCE) is looking to sell up to $500 million worth of common stock. The company has engaged the services of Credit Suisse Securities (CS), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Goldman Sachs (GS) as part of a capital raising drive. The three will act as the company’s agents in the sale. SPCE stock price plunged 17.30% to close at $40.69 yesterday. The agents are entitled to commission at a mutually agreed rate that will not exceed 2% of the gross sales price. (See Virgin… Source link

Jeff and Lauren Sanchez (inset) and the Black Pearl (AFP via Getty Images and OceanCo) Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, is finally set to join the gilded ranks of the haves and have-yachts. The world’s richest man has been named as the soon-to-be proud owner of one of the most expensive and extravagant superyachts ever built. At 127metres (420ft) the craft – known only by its project name Y721 – will be as long as the Great Pyramid at Giza is tall, and loaded with… Source link

Google has announced plans to invest $500 million in South Carolina, expanding to Berkeley County. BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. — Google has announced plans to invest $500 million in South Carolina, expanding its Berkeley County operation.  According to an announcement on March 18, Google plans to invest more than $7 billion and create at least 10,000 new, full-time Google jobs across the United States… Source link

Google has announced plans to invest $500 million in South Carolina, expanding to Berkeley County. BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. — Google has announced plans to invest $500 million in South Carolina, expanding its Berkeley County operation.  According to an announcement on March 18, Google plans to invest more than $7 billion and create at least 10,000 new, full-time Google jobs across the United States… Source link

NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Jigsaw, a unit within Google that forecasts and confronts emerging digital threats, announced that Perspective, a free, open source API that uses machine learning to spot toxic comments, is now processing 500 million requests daily and is measurably reducing toxicity to make conversations online better at scale. The third issue of the company’s online research magazine, The Current, which was published today, details the persistent and damaging… Source link