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New Mini-Moon 2024 PT5: A Major Step Towards Space Mining Opportunities
The newly discovered mini-moon, 2024 PT5, entered Earth's orbit on September 29, 2024, and will remain until November 25. This small asteroid, measuring around 10 metres, provides a unique opportunity for researchers to study near-Earth objects and explore the viability of space mining. Experts believe that asteroids contain precious metals, which ...
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India’s AstroSat and NASA's Space Observatories Collaborate to Unravel Black Hole’s Mystery
Researchers from NASA and India’s ISRO have collaborated to study the interaction between a massive black hole and a star that ventured too close. Using multiple observatories, including AstroSat, they discovered the link between tidal disruption events and quasi-periodic eruptions. This research offers new insights into the expanding debris disk...
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Cricket NFT Marketplace FanCraze Raises $100 Million, Football Star Ronaldo Reportedly Among Investors
An online marketplace for trading legally licensed digital Cricket NFTs has raised almost $100 million (roughly Rs. 760 crore) in a new fundraising round, with backers including Cristiano Ronaldo, Venture capital firms B Capital Group, and Insight Partners leading FanCraze’s Series A round.
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Twitch Founder Justin Kan on Why His Second Venture Atrium Failed
Atrium, a hybrid legal software and law firm startup, announced in March 2020 that it was shutting shop after having failed to figure out how to be more efficient than a traditional law firm. Its founder Justin Kan outlined what went wrong in a series of tweets.
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Cooling Startup Funding Chills the Tech 'Unicorn' Herd
The report by CB Insights and KPMG found venture funding dropped to $25.5 billion in the first three months of the year.
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Google's New Alphabet Structure Sees Share Prices Rising
By separating moonshots from moneymakers, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are now free to pursue more quixotic business ideas such as glucose-monitoring contact lenses, Internet-connected, high-altitude balloons and even immortality.
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Hootsuite Raises $60 Million in Investments at $1 Billion Valuation
The Vancouver-based firm said the latest round of financing led by a large Boston-based asset manager included existing investors Accel Partners, Insight Venture Partners and OMERS Venture, along with Silicon Valley Bank.
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BMC to go private in $6.9 billion deal led by Bain, Golden Gate
Business software maker BMC Software Inc, whose anemic growth has been a source of frustration for its largest shareholder, said it would be taken private by a group led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital for about $6.9 billion.
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Dell made rival $2.15 billion bid for Quest- Sources
According to sources, Dell is the "strategic bidder" that offered to buy Quest Software for $2.15 billion in cash, trumping a bid by Insight Venture Partners.
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Online photograph provider Shutterstock files for $115 mn IPO
Online stock photography provider Shutterstock plans an initial public offering of common stock to raise up to $115 million.
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New Mini-Moon 2024 PT5: A Major Step Towards Space Mining Opportunities
The newly discovered mini-moon, 2024 PT5, entered Earth's orbit on September 29, 2024, and will remain until November 25. This small asteroid, measuring around 10 metres, provides a unique opportunity for researchers to study near-Earth objects and explore the viability of space mining. Experts believe that asteroids contain precious metals, which ...
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India’s AstroSat and NASA's Space Observatories Collaborate to Unravel Black Hole’s Mystery
Researchers from NASA and India’s ISRO have collaborated to study the interaction between a massive black hole and a star that ventured too close. Using multiple observatories, including AstroSat, they discovered the link between tidal disruption events and quasi-periodic eruptions. This research offers new insights into the expanding debris disk...
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Cricket NFT Marketplace FanCraze Raises $100 Million, Football Star Ronaldo Reportedly Among Investors
An online marketplace for trading legally licensed digital Cricket NFTs has raised almost $100 million (roughly Rs. 760 crore) in a new fundraising round, with backers including Cristiano Ronaldo, Venture capital firms B Capital Group, and Insight Partners leading FanCraze’s Series A round.
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Twitch Founder Justin Kan on Why His Second Venture Atrium Failed
Atrium, a hybrid legal software and law firm startup, announced in March 2020 that it was shutting shop after having failed to figure out how to be more efficient than a traditional law firm. Its founder Justin Kan outlined what went wrong in a series of tweets.
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Cooling Startup Funding Chills the Tech 'Unicorn' Herd
The report by CB Insights and KPMG found venture funding dropped to $25.5 billion in the first three months of the year.
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Google's New Alphabet Structure Sees Share Prices Rising
By separating moonshots from moneymakers, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are now free to pursue more quixotic business ideas such as glucose-monitoring contact lenses, Internet-connected, high-altitude balloons and even immortality.
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Hootsuite Raises $60 Million in Investments at $1 Billion Valuation
The Vancouver-based firm said the latest round of financing led by a large Boston-based asset manager included existing investors Accel Partners, Insight Venture Partners and OMERS Venture, along with Silicon Valley Bank.
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BMC to go private in $6.9 billion deal led by Bain, Golden Gate
Business software maker BMC Software Inc, whose anemic growth has been a source of frustration for its largest shareholder, said it would be taken private by a group led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital for about $6.9 billion.
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Dell made rival $2.15 billion bid for Quest- Sources
According to sources, Dell is the "strategic bidder" that offered to buy Quest Software for $2.15 billion in cash, trumping a bid by Insight Venture Partners.
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Online photograph provider Shutterstock files for $115 mn IPO
Online stock photography provider Shutterstock plans an initial public offering of common stock to raise up to $115 million.
