Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Abacum, which offers financial planning and analysis tools for medium-sized companies, raises a $25M Series A led by Atomico, bringing its total funding to $32M — Abacum, a SaaS maker geared toward upgrading mid-sized companies’ financial planning and analysis tools, has fast-followed …
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Bloomberg: Employees of the crime-watch app Citizen vote to unionize and join the CWA, a rare instance of successful labor organizing at a VC-backed tech startup — – It’s a rare victory for organizing at a VC-backed tech startup — Company has embarked on a range of controversial experiments
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Vodafone Portugal is working to recover from a “deliberate and malicious cyberattack” that also affected businesses, ambulances, fire departments, and hospitals — Ambulance and emergency services are among those suffering from “deliberate” hack.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Vienna-based PlanRadar, which digitizes construction and real estate documents and communication, raises a $70M Series B — Back in March Vienna-based PlanRadar snapped up a €30 million Series A to digitize construction and real estate. The Austrian startup – a platform for documentation …
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Nintendo) Nintendo’s latest financial report to investors, issued as an overview of its fiscal year’s third quarter, came with a momentous announcement for the veteran video game and console producer: Switch has joined the 100 million-worldwide-sales club. What’s more, Switch’s current tally of 103.5 million means the device has leapfrogged over both the PlayStation 1 and Nintendo Wii in terms of sales. The count makes the Switch Nintendo’s highest-selling home console of all time. While Sony’s PS4 and PS2 console families continue to hold higher sales counts, neither got to the 100 million mark as quickly as Switch, which…
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with a fix for the IndexedDB API bug in Safari, as well as iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, tvOS 15.3, and HomePod 15.3 — Apple’s latest round of software updates is now rolling out to the public. iOS 15.3 is now available to iPhone users …
Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: In an internal Slack message, Marc Benioff says Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor will continue to report to him — Bret Taylor is co-CEO of Salesforce in name only, it turns out. The Information has learned that in his new role Taylor will continue to report to Marc Benioff, who is ostensibly his equal as co-CEO.
Anuchit Nguyen / Bloomberg: Siam Commercial, Thailand’s largest bank in which its king is the largest shareholder, acquires 51% of crypto exchange Bitkub for $535M, at a $1B+ valuation — – Siam Commercial Bank buys majority stake in Bitkub Online — Bitkub coin surges 200% to record $2.85 following Siam deal
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Pakistan-based CreditBook, a bookkeeping app for small merchants, raises an $11M pre-Series A led by Tiger Global, the VC’s first investment in the country — Two years ago, a group of entrepreneurs in Pakistan began surveying the market to understand why financial services weren’t reaching …
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: iUNU, whose LUNA robot moves on greenhouse roofs and uses AI to detect problems with plants and find spots that are ready to harvest, raises a $24M Series B — Not going to lie, iUNU (pronounced “you knew”) is not the easiest name (further confusing matters is the presence of a robot called “LUNA”).