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LAS VEGAS — Music superstar Katy Perry kicked off her new Las Vegas residency, Katy Perry: PLAY at the brand-new Resorts World Theatre in Las Vegas. The premiere performance Wednesday had a sold-out crowd on their feet as she brought a colorful performance to the Las Vegas Strip. “As with everything I do, PLAY is massively colorful for the […]
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — Ambys Medicines, a company pioneering cell-based therapies for severe liver diseases, has completed a $47 million extension of its Series A financing. This brings the total Series A funding raised by Ambys to $107 million. Ambys is developing an entirely new approach to treating severe liver disease. The company’s liver-cell production […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Cloud security firm Sysdig, Inc. has raised a $350 million Series G funding round at a valuation of $2.5 billion – bringing total funding to $744 million and more than doubling the company’s valuation in eight months. The financing was led by Permira’s growth fund. Guggenheim Investments joined this round, along with […]
Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky is one of the world’s richest men with his stake in the home and apartment rental company. Chesky holds 76,437,399 shares in Airbnb based on SEC filings as of April 23. With a Wednesday closing price of $167.44, Chesky’s stake is worth $12.8 billion. Chesky, 40, earned a salary […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully launched last Saturday at 7:20 a.m. EST on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. [Photo above: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is seen above Earth after separating from its Ariane 5 rocket on Dec. 25, 2021. The view is from a camera on the rocket as Webb […]
The median home sale price rose 14.6% year over year to a new all-time high of $361,171 during the four-week period ending December 26, according to a new report from real estate brokerage Redfin. This comes as the number of homes for sale fell to a record low. New listings and pending sales both dropped to their lowest […]
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Equity Partners (SFEP), a private equity firm focused on expansion-stage companies in the consumer sector, has acquired a majority stake in Petaluma-based Rustic Bakery, a pioneer and market leader in organic and specialty foods, and one of the highest-velocity specialty cracker brands in the market. Terms of the deal were […]
According to Doordash, the largest food-delivery service in the country, French Fries and Chicken Nuggets were the most popular food items ordered by customers in 2021. Data is from Doordash and DashPass customers from January to October 2021. Below is the list of 20 most popular food items. Top 20 Ordered Items in 2021 French […]
Instacart, the nation’s largest grocery delivery service, introduced a year ago Electronic Benefits Transfer and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (EBT SNAP) payments integration for its grocery partners. And since then, the company has continued to expand this offering. As of September 2021, 21.39 million households around the nation were using SNAP benefits according to USDA […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Bounce, a luggage storage service, has raised $2 million led by General Catalyst to expand into all 50 states and into 20 additional countries worldwide. Now, travelers everywhere can store their luggage through Bounce in virtually every city in the United States and many more in Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa as […]
Actor Dwayne Johnson, also known as The Rock, has been chosen as America’s top celebrity dream workout partner in a survey by Life Time fitness centers. The response is one of several from Life Time’s annual survey of nearly 1,000 people across the country to determine trends, fun insights, and habits in the health and […]
LG Display, the South Korean maker of display technologies, has unveiled its newest OLED TV technology ‘OLED EX’. The next-generation OLED EX display implements LG Display’s deuterium and personalized algorithm-based ‘EX Technology,’ which helps boost the display’s overall picture quality by enhancing brightness up to 30 percent compared to conventional OLED displays. The OLED EX […]