December 23, 2024

Forging the digital future

Dan Huttenlocher, SM ’84, PhD ’88, leads the way up to the eighth floor of Building 45, the recently completed headquarters of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. “There’s an amazing view of the Great Dome here,” he says, pointing out a panoramic view of campus and the Boston skyline beyond. The floor features a…

RED and Fuji are building Frame.io’s Camera to Cloud right into their cameras

October 18, 2022

It’s been eighteen months since Adobe acquired Frame.io, the video collaboration service that helps anyone from freelancers to large production houses streamline their review and editing workflows. One of the core features of Frame.io is its Camera to Cloud (C2C) technology, which greatly speeds up the process of uploading and sharing video in the middle […]

RED and Fuji are building Frame.io’s Camera to Cloud right into their cameras by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.7B valuation

October 18, 2022

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper, a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 billion valuation. The tranche is the company’s first, remarkably, and comes as Jasper acquires AI startup Outwrite, a grammar and style checker with over a million […]

AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.7B valuation by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: bots for the brokenhearted, and AI for life and death decisions

October 18, 2022
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Technology that lets us speak to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? My colleague Charlotte embarked on an experiment during the pandemic. She created digital versions of her parents. They’re voice…

Enable lands $94M to help B2B companies manage their rebate programs

October 18, 2022

Enable, a startup selling access to a platform that helps business-to-business (B2B) companies manage their rebate programs, today announced that it raised $94 million in an oversubscribed Series C round led by Insight Partners with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, SE Ventures, PSP Growth and HarbourVest Partners. Bringing Enable’s total capital raised to $156 million, […]

Enable lands $94M to help B2B companies manage their rebate programs by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Streaming data processing platform RisingWave lands $36M to launch a cloud service

October 18, 2022

RisingWave Labs, a company developing a platform for data stream processing, today announced that it raised $36 million in a Series A funding round led by Yunqi Partners, undisclosed corporate investors and angel investors. Bringing RisingWave’s total raised to over $40 million, the capital will be put toward scaling the startup’s business-side operations to support […]

Streaming data processing platform RisingWave lands $36M to launch a cloud service by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Meta gets final order to sell Giphy from UK antitrust watchdog

October 18, 2022

Bye-bye: Meta has again been ordered by the UK’s competition watchdog to sell animated GIF platform, Giphy. And this time it’s final. The decision follows a ‘stay of execution’ for Meta this summer, after the U.K.’s Competition Appeal Tribunal sent the case back to the antitrust regulator to be reassessed following a procedural finding that […]

Meta gets final order to sell Giphy from UK antitrust watchdog by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch