Archive for May 17th, 2007
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Posted by: amygdala on May 17, 2007
- Munich-based Celus, which uses AI to automate printed circuit board design, raised a €25M Series A led by Earlybird (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
- Colorado-based Swimlane, which offers low-code cybersecurity automation platform called Turbine, raised $70M led by Activate Capital (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
- Authentic Brands Group, which runs Forever 21, settles with Bolt over claims its payments tech was faulty; ABG gets an undisclosed stake in Bolt (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
- IBM acquires Tel Aviv-based Databand, which develops observability tools for data and ML pipelines; Databand raised a $14.5M Series A in December 2020 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- The UK's CMA launches an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition, setting a September 1 deadline for its initial decision (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
- As crypto markets tumbled, strict US regulatory rules on risky bank assets largely insulated Wall Street from the chaos, while retail investors were hit hard (Emily Flitter/New York Times)
- The UK's CMA opens an investigation into whether Amazon distorts competition by favoring its own retail business and sellers using its Prime services (Sky News)
- Meta's Stephane Kasriel says the company still plans to roll out NFT support to help creators monetize through cross-platform "memberships" and "subscriptions" (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
- Crypto exchange Bitstamp plans to add a €10/month fee for non-US accounts that are inactive for over one year with a balance below €200, starting August 1 (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Amazon will share more data with rivals and offer buyers a wider choice of products to assuage EU antitrust regulators, concluding a three-year probe (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
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