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David Pierce / Protocol : A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers   —  Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story.  They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/35QYjgq

Christine Hall / Crunchbase News : Cloud video surveillance company Eagle Eye Networks raises $40M Series E from Accel to invest in new AI projects such as license plate recognition   —  Eagle Eye Networks, a cloud video surveillance company, raised $40 million in Series E funding from Accel to advance its platform. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/35QezhD

Nick Greenhalgh / Denver Business Journal : StackHawk, whose tech helps developers find application security vulnerabilities before they get into production, raises $10M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures   —  With a successful beta at its back and paying customers onboard, Denver application security startup StackHawk announced Tuesday … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/34IUACc

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch : Wise, a fintech startup that partners with other companies so that they can offer business bank accounts to their own customers, raises $12M Series A   —  Fintech startup Wise has raised a $12 million Series A round.  The company offers business bank accounts with an interesting go-to-market strategy. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jMsYAv

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Skan, which helps enterprises automate repetitive business processes by combining data engineering with computer vision, raises $14M Series A   —  Skan.ai, an AI-enabled process discovery and operational intelligence platform, today closed $14 million in funding. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3mEqqWP

FinSMEs : DriveWealth raises $56.7M Series C for its digital brokerage services that help broker-dealers and its global online partners access the US securities market   —  DriveWealth, LLC, a Chatam, N.J.-based global digital trading technology company, raised $56.7m in Series C funding. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/34IyZtE

Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs : The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations   —  Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2TJwhxv

Nandita Mathur / Livemint : Forty-six top US companies including Apple, Google, and Twitter have filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to block Trump admin's H-1B visa changes   —  - The move comes in the wake of the US administration's proposal to scrap the computerized lottery system to grant H-1B work visas … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jUch6h

Two chatbots meet and put the world to rights online in battle to see who is most human-like. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8290670 https://ift.tt/3mIzQki

Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu : Odaseva, a France-based data protection services provider for large-scale Salesforce customers, raises $25M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures   —  French SaaS company Odaseva has raised $25 million in Series B funding to continue growing its data governance platform for enterprise. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3kLXBHf

Elliott Ackerman / Wired : Profile of Shield AI, which raised money from a16z and others to develop autonomous military drones that scan buildings to help soldiers clear them   —  On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap.  A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/320EYIq

Monica Chin / The Verge : Intel launches new Iris Xe Max discrete GPU, with first laptops now available from Acer, Dell, and Asus   —  Try out Intel's new discrete GPU  —  Earlier this month, the public got its first glimpse of Iris Xe Max, Intel's new discrete GPU for thin-and-light laptops, at an Acer press event. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jHYWxz

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic : How Trump's presidency has changed the internet, from fueling conspiracy theories to forcing social media platforms to reexamine their content policies   —  How the president changed life online—for better and for worse  —  Being online has changed Donald Trump. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3mBQxh9

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with  a record  204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People are now  spending  three hours and 40 minutes per day using apps, rivaling TV. Apps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours — they’re a big business. In 2019, mobile-first companies had a  combined  $544 billion valuation, 6.5x higher than those without a mobile focus. Top Stories Here Comes Apple One Thanks for all the market research, app developers. Image Credits: Apple Apple issued a slight beat on earnings  this week, despite the COVID pandemic and a 20% decline in iPhone sales year-over-year, including a drop in China. But for app developers who already have a large install base to serve across Apple’s mobile devices, it’s Apple’s expansion into ...

Hello and welcome back to  Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast ( now on Twitter! ), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. As promised, the whole gang is back, this time to chew on the biggest, baddest, worstest, and most troubling earnings reports from the current cycle. This week saw Amazon and Alphabet and Microsoft and Apple and Facebook report, along with a host of smaller companies. Spoiler alert: there were more tricks than treats. Danny , Natasha and Alex wanted to get to the bottom of the big tech results, asking what really mattered from each of them? Then it was time to dig into themes. We saw plan price increases coming from Netflix and Spotify , advertising getting a boo-st from politics and 2020’s overall meltdown, and boo-ming billions of consumer interest in…desktops. After that, a dive into the results of smaller SaaS and cloud companies, picking out trends that might help us see around the corner a bit; is the tech boom s...

Lara O'Reilly / Digiday : Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules   —  Nordic publishing giant Schibsted became one of 20 new members of the recently formed Coalition for App Fairness earlier this month. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2Je9yaT