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Roku announced that after their initial successful debuts Roku Originals “Emeril Cooks,” starring chef Emeril Lagasse, and “Martha Cooks,” starring Martha Stewart, will return for all-new seasons on The Roku Channel. The first seasons of both “Martha Cooks” and “Emeril Cooks” premiered in the fall of 2022 on The Roku Channel. · “Emeril Cooks” Season 2 The second […]
Silicon Valley will have a big presence in advertising during Sunday’s Super Bowl game between Kansas City and Philadelphia on Fox Network. Apple will be the sponsor of the halftime music show featuring Rihanna, replacing Pepsi, which had been the halftime sponsor for the past decade. Netflix is teaming up with GM in a 60-second […]
ChatGPT, the popular new AI service from OpenAI, has unveiled a new subscription plan earlier this month. ChatGPT Plus is available for $20/month, and subscribers will receive a number of benefits: General access to ChatGPT, even during peak times Faster response times Priority access to new features and improvements ChatGPT Plus is available to customers in the United […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Regie.ai, an AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that streamlines enterprise organizations’ content creation workflows, has closed its A Round with an additional $6 million investment from Khosla Ventures, the early investor behind Open-AI. This extends the company’s Series A funding and brings total funding to date with previous participation by Foundation Capital, Scale Venture Partners and others, to $20.8 million. Faced […]
SAN FRANCISCO – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, has raised $81 million in capital funding, closing a $51 million Series E funding round led by new investors Princeville Capital and Citi Ventures, with participation from existing investors Battery Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Sapphire Ventures, and others, and a $30 million debt facility with […]
SAN JOSE –– Light Field Lab, developers of the SolidLight holographic display platform, has raised a $50 Million Series B led by global game developer NCSOFT. New investors Corning, Gates Frontier, LG Tech Ventures, NCSOFT, and OTOY are joined by additional participation from current shareholders Khosla Ventures, the venture capital arms of Samsung, Verizon, Bosch, HELLA, Liberty Global, and national technology fund Taiwania Capital. LightField Lab also unveiled Defy […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Therma°, a cooling intelligence platform combating food and energy waste, has landed a $19 million Series A funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Zero Infinity Partners, with participation from Deciens Capital, CityRock Venture Partners, Homecoming Capital, Ananta Capital, Kindergarten Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Govtech Fund. Therma° will deploy the funding to become a scalable electric grid partner by dynamically […]
Instagram announced it is expanding Gifts on its service to more creators across the US, offering a way for creators to begin earning money on reels from their audience. The company began testing gifts on Instagram in November, which let followers show their appreciation through direct monetary support. You can receive gifts from supporters who purchase […]
For the third year in a row, 94027 in Atherton, CA, is the most expensive zip code in America in 2022 according to RealtyHop, with a median price of $9,000,000, increasing 0.56% from $8,950,000 in 2021. California has 59 of the most expensive zip codes, the most of any state. Los Angeles has the highest […]
Shares in C3.ai were up 18% Friday to close at $25.68 and are up 133% so far in 2023. The company provides enterprise businesses with AI applications which is the hot technology in Silicon Valley after the release of ChatGPT in November. Last week, C3.ai announced the launch of the C3 Generative AI Product Suite […]
CUPERTINO — Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2023 first quarter ended December 31, 2022. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $117.2 billion, down 5 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.88. Sales of the iPhone were $65.7 billion in the quarter, down from $71.6 billion a year earlier. […]
SAN MATEO — Cloudian announced that it closed $60 million in new funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $233 million. The round includes participation from Digital Alpha, Eight Roads Ventures Japan, INCJ, Intel Capital, Japan Post Investment Corporation, Silicon Valley Bank, Tinshed Asia, Wilson Sonsini Investments, and strategic investors. This latest investment reinforces Cloudian’s […]