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NFT Startup Venture Notables Draws CAA, UTA, WME as Advisors
Variety reports: "Investment firm Forest Road Co. has enlisted Hollywood’s largest talent agencies CAA, UTA and WME to help launch the NFT sales venture...
Alibaba Quarterly Results Beat Expectations, With Entertainment Up 6%
Variety reports: "China’s Alibaba Group posted stronger earnings than expected in its first financial quarter thanks to growth in its core e-commerce and cloud...
E.Ventures raises $400 million for early-stage U.S. and European startups
VentureBeat reports: "E.Ventures, a 20-year-old fund with headquarters in San Francisco and Berlin, has raised $400 million for two early-stage venture capital funds. The company...
Amazon’s Prime Video app disappears from the App Store
TechCrunch reports: "In what we understand was a “technical issue”, the Amazon Prime Video app disappeared from the Apple App Store, making it unavailable...
2019 tech IPOs: The not-quite-banner year that could have been a...
VentureBeat reports: "While the much-hyped tech unicorns produced IPOs that amounted to giant face plants, the news was not all bad for the class...
Spotify Got Rid Of Its Convenient Android Home Screen Widget
The Verge reports: "The ability to plop widgets anywhere on your home screen is one of the more convenient things about Android. But one...
TikTok and Snap Alums Launch mayk.it, a Social Music Creation App,...
TechCrunch reports: "Along with his co-founder Akiva Bamberger, who was a software engineer on Snap’s Spectacles, Henriquez began work on mayk.it last summer. Today,...
Major VFX Landscape Shake-Up: Framestore Buys Company 3, Method
The Hollywood Reporter reports: "Framestore, whose work won VFX Oscars for 'Gravity' and 'Blade Runner 2049', gains the former Deluxe creative services companies."
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How Europe’s AI ecosystem could catch up with China and the...
VentureBeat reports: "From Alibaba and Baidu to Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, China and the United States produced virtually every one of the top consumer...
ViacomCBS Reaches Deal to Sell CNET for $500 Million to Marketing...
Variety reports: "ViacomCBS is offloading CNET Media Group in a $500 million deal with digital-marketing company Red Ventures, which announced the deal Monday."
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