NFT marketplace startup Rarible closes $14.2 million Series A

You&#8217;ve likely seen the headlines surrounding the pretty major decline in NFT sales from the market&#8217;s recent peak, with some reports indicating as much as a 90 percent decline in recent weeks. And while plenty of crypto speculators are on the losing end of that rapid decline, others see … Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

WeWork India exposed visitors’ personal information and selfies

Visitor names, email addresses, phone numbers, and selfies were exposed to the internet. Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

TikTok says ‘Project Texas’ will bolster security for U.S. users in wake of China data access concerns

Over the weekend, TikTok wrote to Republican Senators to assure them that it&#8217;s working on a program called &#8220;Project Texas&#8221; to bolster data security for U.S.-based users. This was in response to the Senators&#8217; letter to the company dated June 27 that questioned its data access… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Kaszek Ventures leads a $15 million round in Chilean asset management startup, Fintual

Like other financial sectors in Latin America, the retail investing space is getting a facelift by local tech startups that are cashing in on the untapped potential for democratizing asset management in the region. One of those startups is Chilean-based Fintual, which today announced a $15 million … Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Orbion, manufacturer of in-space plasma propulsion systems, raises $20M Series B

Electric propulsion developer Orbion Space Technology has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round, which it says it will use to scale production capacity of its Aurora propulsion system. The Michigan-based startup manufactures Hall effect plasma thrusters for use in small and cube satellites… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Volvo’s flagship electric SUV will come with Luminar’s lidar and software as standard

Volvo Cars and Luminar Technologies are beefing up their partnership. The two companies said Thursday that Luminar’s autonomous driving stack – a combination of hardware and software that includes lidar sensors and a proprietary perception system – will be standard on Volvo’s forthcoming flagship e… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Happs raises $4.7 million for a multicast livestream platform creator community

Happs, an app that lets creators stream live video simultaneously across social platforms, has raised $4.7 million in a post-seed round. The product originally began as a platform for independent journalists, but expanded its mission last year to offer tools to all online creators while connecting … Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Daily Crunch: AWS and Salesforce expand partnership to make cross-platform integrations easier

Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

JW Player raises $100M to build subscriptions and other monetization tools around its video software

JW Player, a very early mover in the market for online video technology &#8212; it powered YouTube&#8217;s first video player, before Google acquired it and it built its own &#8212; has long been profitable through a business model of providing one-to-many video streaming tools to publishers and ot… Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Musculoskeletal medical startups race to enter personalized health tech market

Several personalized health tech startups hope to reinvent care for patients suffering from musculoskeletal (MSK) medical conditions and chronic pain. Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News

Google and India’s Jio Platforms announce budget Android smartphone JioPhone Next

Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms and Google on Thursday unveiled the JioPhone Next, an affordable Android smartphone that will eventually launch across world. Read Full Article Posted By : Tech Big News