A new startup called Happaning wants to make video a more immersive experience by allowing people to watch the same event from multiple perspectives. Or, as co-founder and CEO Andrew Eniwumide likes to say, it’s “Google Street View, but with video.” The company believes its unique technology offering these multi-vantage point videos could ultimately do more than just introduce a new user experience for video — it could solve other issues with misinformation or deep fakes, for… Source link
Read More »Sea Aims to Raise $6.3 Billion in 2021’s Biggest Equity Deal
(Bloomberg) — Sea Ltd. aims to raise $6.3 billion in the largest equity offering of the year, a deal that will propel a global expansion and acquisitions for Southeast Asia’s largest company. The online gaming and e-commerce firm backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd. is offering 11 million shares, a stake worth about $3.8 billion at Wednesday’s close. It also intends to issue $2.5 billion of equity-linked debt. Sea, which has risen more than 70% this year, fell in post-marketing trading in New… Source link
Read More »Wall Street aims to build on gains as COVID-era benefits expire
Stocks dipped in early trading on Tuesday, with Wall Street indices hovering close to last week’s record highs, with analysts closely watching the end of pandemic-era jobless benefits and its impact on the labor market as the COVID-19 pandemic clouds the outlook. Last week, the S&P 500 Index set an all-time high, and the Nasdaq Composite briefly hitting an intraday record, despite August’s jobs data falling far short of market expectations. While payrolls showed the economy creating a… Source link
Read More »Tesla’s Latest Tech Aims To Kill Boring Jobs For Good
Just when you thought you would never belly laugh harder than when Elon Musk decided to demonstrate the Cybertruck’s shatterproof windows, along comes AI Day 2021 – a day that we’re certain is going to live in Tesla-infamy for one reason or another. Naturally, having solved the issues of making cars profitably and achieving the company’s goal of 1 million robotaxis on the road, Tesla took yesterday’s event as an opportunity to reveal their next game-changing product that doesn’t exist, a… Source link
Read More »Wall Street Aims to Make Sense of Confounding Bitcoin Swings
Bloomberg Secretive Hedge Fund Ends Long Silence to Take On Japan Icon (Bloomberg) — It was the rarest of public appearances. At Toshiba Corp.’s extraordinary general meeting in March, a lawyer, who didn’t give his name, talked for four minutes about why shareholders’ rights should never be infringed.He was speaking on behalf of Effissimo Capital Management Pte, a secretive hedge fund that had avoided the spotlight for almost 15 years. Now it was coming out into the open, if only… Source link
Read More »What the FLoC? Everything you need to know about Google’s new ad tech that aims to replace third-party cookies
Will ‘Federated Learning of Cohorts’ preserve user privacy? The jury is still out Over the years, web developers have dreamed up dozens of cute error pages to remind visitors to switch on cookies in their browsers. Most are riffs on the eponymous baked snack (“Will work for cookies”) or Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster. But the Cookie Monster may soon have fewer job opportunities – at least, that’s if Google gets its way. The internet giant… Source link
Read More »Apollo’s $5 Billion Bet on Yahoo Aims to Go Beyond Advertising
Bloomberg U.K. On Course to Ease Lockdown; Denmark Drops J&J: Virus Update (Bloomberg) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the country is on course to scrap lockdown rules over the next seven weeks. Denmark will ease curbs this week and dropped Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 shot. Bavaria’s Oktoberfest festival was canceled, but free beer is available to New Jersey residents who get a vaccine.India was criticized for a “lack of leadership” by a former central bank chief, as Prime… Source link
Read More »New bill aims to help active-duty military service members
A new bipartisan bill proposed by Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) hopes to ease military service members’ path towards student loan forgiveness, Yahoo Finance has learned. “Service members take enormous risks to protect our freedoms, and it is unacceptable that members of the military can return home after active duty and not be any closer to receiving loan forgiveness,” Senator Hassan said in a statement provided to Yahoo Finance. “This bipartisan bill is a… Source link
Read More »Heads Up! Google’s new Android feature aims to save you future embarrassment
Google’s new Heads Up feature is a Digital Wellbeing tool that can stop you from walking into light poles and other pedestrians. Jason… Source link
Read More »Google aims to be anti-Amazon of e-comm, but still has a long way to go
Google tried to copy Amazon’s playbook to become the shopping hub of the internet, with little success. Now it is trying something different: the anti-Amazon strategy. Google is trying to present itself as a cheaper and less restrictive option for independent sellers. And it is focused on driving traffic to sellers’ sites, not selling its own version of products, as Amazon does. In the last year, Google eliminated fees for… Source link
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