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- Promoting Tesla, getting a fairly tweet deal: Everybody’s favourite social media-acquiring billionaire is promoting $4 billion value of Tesla inventory and supposedly has a brand new Twitter CEO lined up. He additionally shared that he has the beginnings of a plan for methods to monetize tweets.
- Wait, firms should make cash? Robinhood’s inventory value goes off a cliff as competitors will get stiff and its enterprise mannequin is increasingly skew-whiff.
- House is the place the advantages are: Airbnb staff acquired a enjoyable shock this week when the corporate instructed staff it was instituting a “stay anyplace, work anyplace” philosophy. Need to work within the workplace? You bought it. Need to preserve working from residence? No downside. Need to transfer to a international nation and work from there? Sure, however solely as much as 90 days yearly. We guess even they’d to attract a line someplace.
Startups and VC
Civilian drone producer DJI and the Ukrainian and Russian governments proceed their spat. Most lately, DJI suspends gross sales in Ukraine and Russia in an obvious try to look extra impartial.
We have been notably enthralled this morning by Jim Motavalli’s function article about bidirectional charging. In different phrases: If the facility goes out, what does it take to energy your own home out of your automobile’s batteries?
Johnny’s within the basement, mixin’ up the drugs, I’m on the pavement, studying information with wonderment:
- They develop up so quick: That feeling while you actually wish to plow some money right into a startup, however they’re just a bit bit too younger? Yeah, Techstars hates that too, and it debuts a brand new fund aimed toward investing in earlier-stage firms.
- Do I seem like I do know what a JPEG is: Revise raises $3.5 million to provide NFTs powers past simply being a fairly image.
- The Sport of Telephones: Vercom, who desires to be a competitor to the likes of Twilio and Sinch, acquires advertising automation MailerLite for $90 million.
Charged with billions in capital, meet the 9 startups growing tomorrow’s batteries at the moment
In his first Avisionews+ article, Senior Local weather Author Tim De Chant examined 9 startups optimizing EV battery know-how which have collectively raised simply over $4 billion within the final 18 months.
Enhancing tech like solid-state batteries, changing particular chemical elements and utilizing hybrid chemistries are only a few of the strategies startups are deploying to unlock advantages like lowering weight whereas rising vary and security.
“However vehicles and vans received’t be the one factor touched by the battery revolution that’ll happen over the subsequent few years,” he writes.
“Like many advances, higher, lighter and longer-lasting batteries will drive modifications in our lives which are each sudden and welcome.”
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We’re happening a little bit of a curler coaster trip by way of excellent news versus not, so preserve your palms and legs contained in the e-newsletter, and also you’ll be good.
- Amazon’s crown is slipping: Within the kingdom of the general public cloud, we be aware that Amazon is an “undisputed king,” however Microsoft is poised to storm the citadel. Amazon continues to carry court docket, controlling a 3rd of the general public cloud for years, however Microsoft has been quietly amassing a public cloud military that now accounts for 22%, up from 20% final yr.
- And Amazon’s earnings, not so good: Shares of the corporate have been right down to a two-year low on the information that the corporate reported a first-quarter loss attributed to “inflationary and provide chain pressures.”
- Apple has a special earnings take: In at the moment’s fruit information, Apple reported some record-breaking providers income figures that elevated 17% from final yr to achieve $19.8 billion. There are a whole lot of causes for the nice quarter, together with promoting a whole lot of iPhones, computer systems and watches.
- Netflix made some layoffs: A few of Tudum’s editorial employees discovered themselves laid off yesterday. Tudum, you may keep in mind, is Netflix’s in-house publication that solely began 5 months in the past. Whereas Netflix stated Tudum was not shutting down, it’s transferring ahead with out an editorial supervisor and not less than seven others.
