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From left: Google’s Sundar Pichai, Facebook’s Mark Holliday, and Factory_OS’s Rick Holliday and Larry Pace (Getty; Factory_OS; iStock) Tech giants Facebook and Google are pulling out their checkbooks to back a modular housing startup. Factory_OS, which aims to build apartments more efficiently and for less money, announced the Series B Friday. The $55 million round was led by Lafayette Square Holdings, with participation from Autodesk, Citi and Morgan Stanley, along with Facebook… Source link

Vallejo modular housing startup Factory_OS has raised $55 million from tech giants Google and Facebook, the software firm Autodesk, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and asset manager Lafayette Square Holding. The money will enable Factory_OS to increase production at its second Mare Island factory and expand to Los Angeles, the company said Friday…. Source link

Modern web browsers are the primary medium through which we access the internet. However, the internal technical code and external user interface has not changed for decades, while user purposes have. Once primarily for work, web browsers have to handle more data-intensive activities such as streaming, watching Youtube videos, and loading multimedia pages. On top of that, many users have open a myriad of tabs at anytime. Today’s browser struggles to handle our endless consumption for… Source link

While acknowledging the increased clout it has gained from the popularity of its mostly free services, Google says it remains true to its founding principles to organize the world’s information. The Mountain View, California, company also denies any wrongdoing and intends to fight the suit filed Tuesday by the Justice Department, just as Microsoft did. Like other seminal Silicon Valley companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Apple, Google started in a garage — one that Page and Brin rented… Source link

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(Bloomberg) — Online insurance platform Policybazaar aims to go public in 2021 at a valuation north of $3.5 billion, potentially becoming the first of India’s mega-startups to debut as its digital economy booms. The startup plans to secure about $250 million in a round of financing at a $2 billion-plus valuation before a September 2021 initial public offering, co-founder Yashish Dahiya told Bloomberg News. Policybazaar is now selecting two to three IPO lead underwriters from a roster that… Source link