Author: uzair
uzair
Uzair is a features writer at Cafeer.de. He is a graduate of Emerson College and recently completed the MFA in writing.
A look at Valuables, a service from crypto company Cent that lets users sell their tweets as non-fungible tokens in exchange for Ethereum — A new platform that lets users buy and sell tweets has already seen $270,000 in offers myetherwallet 私の財布にアクセスする. Here’s how it works. — Individuals are now buying …
Coursera prices its shares at the top of the IPO range, at $33, raising $519M and giving it a market value of ~$4.3B — Online education provider Coursera Inc. priced its shares at the top of a marketed range in an initial public offering to raise $519 million.
Sources: Coinbase was valued at $100B+ in private share sale ahead of direct listing; docs reveal $141M net income on $691M revenue for first 9 months of FY2020 — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was valued at just over $100 billion in a recent private market share sale ahead …
As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work — What do Lyft, Facebook, the International Red Cross, the U.N., the government of Nepal and Pokémon Go have in common?
How Apple ramped up its lobbying in AZ, including hiring Gov. Ducey’s ex-chief of staff, amid a proposed bill to let app devs to use 3rd-party payment systems — HB2005 would allow app developers to use third-party payment systems. — Arizona State Rep. Regina Cobb hadn’t even formally introduced …
Profile of BitMEX cofounder Arthur Hayes, who remains at large after the CFTC filed a suit against BitMEX for allegedly running an unregistered trading platform — The BitMEX cofounder created a cryptocurrency exchange that has traded trillions. Now he’s wanted by U.S. authorities …
Sources: as German car trading service Auto1 plans its IPO, Sequoia and Lone Pine will each buy €50M shares from existing investors and put €50M+ into its IPO — – Lone Pine also purchases stock from early backer DN Capital — Both funds want to buy more shares in Auto1’s planned IPO
Deliveroo says it has raised $180M in new funding from existing investors led by Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Management at a $7B+ valuation — Private financing boost for food delivery app ahead of long-awaited stock market debut — Deliveroo’s valuation shot up to more than $7bn …
Wearable device shipments for 2020 grew 28.4% to 444.7M units globally, led by Apple which grew 27.2% in Q4 and has 36.2% marketshare, followed by Xiaomi at ~9% — Worldwide shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20), a year-over-year increase …
Megvii files for an IPO in Shanghai, which may raise at least $922M; Megvii’s HK IPO application had lapsed after it was blacklisted by the Trump administration — – Chinese AI firm will list CDRs on the Shanghai Star board — Offering may raise at least 6 billion yuan for R&D, capital