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PitchBook: US startups raised $209B in 2024, up ~33% from 2023; AI startups raised $97B, the largest portion on record; VCs raised $76.1B, the lowest since 2019 (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago Startup AI

Sources: China-backed hackers targeted the Philippine president's office and stole sensitive data as part of a yearslong, broad espionage campaign (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago China Philippines

Meta elected three new directors to its board, including UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Trump

Gemini agrees to pay $5M to end a CFTC claim that it misled the derivatives regulator in a bid to launch the first US-regulated Bitcoin futures contract (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Bitcoin CFTC

Tencent's stock drops 6%+ after the US DoD added it to a blacklist of companies with alleged ties to China's military; it may face delisting or index removals (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago China Tencent

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon X Platform, a chip to bring AI features to PCs starting at $600, with laptops from Dell, Lenovo, and others coming “early 2025” (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago AI Lenovo

Google previews changes coming to Google TV, including adding Gemini, more natural voice commands, and deeper YouTube integration, rolling out later in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Google YouTube

Sources: India plans $2.7B in fresh subsidies and import tariff cuts to boost local manufacturing, especially of smartphones made by companies like Apple (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago India Apple Manufacturing

Advertising company Outfront, whose clients include Mercury, Brex, and Venmo, says fintech ad spend over the past three years has grown an average of 45%+ YoY (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Fintech

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's and ChatGPT's first few years, his removal as CEO, OpenAI's structure, AGI, AI safety, nuclear fusion, Trump, Musk, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-6 Trump AI

Sources: Italy is in advanced talks for a $1.6B, five-year SpaceX deal to provide the government with secure telecom services, Europe's largest such project (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-6 Europe Italy SpaceX

Foxconn reports Q4 revenue of ~$64.6B, up 15% YoY and exceeding analyst expectations for a 13% rise, with December 2024 bringing in ~$19.8B, up 42% YoY (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-6 4Q

How China-linked Volt Typhoon hackers breached local utilities and the US DOD's sensitive networks in Guam, a US territory vital for defending Taiwan militarily (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-5 China Taiwan

Sources: Getty Images is exploring a merger with rival Shutterstock; deliberations are ongoing and Getty could decide not to pursue a deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-4

An unredacted lawsuit from Utah's AG claims TikTok has long known that TikTok Live promoted sexual content streams to minors and facilitated money laundering (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-4

Meta required a public statesman like Nick Clegg after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and now turns to the in-house Republican Joel Kaplan to appease Trump (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-4 Trump Republican

China plans to extend its national consumer subsidies to smartphone, tablet, and smartwatch purchases to boost domestic spending as external headwinds pick up (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-3 China

Car rental app Turo, which uses a risk algorithm to screen drivers, was used to book trucks in both fatal New Year's Day incidents in Las Vegas and New Orleans (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-3 Algorithm Vegas

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon pleads not guilty before a US federal judge in New York to nine counts, including wire fraud, over the $40B TerraUSD collapse (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-3 New York

Sources: China-backed hackers accessed the computers of senior US Treasury officials; the department's email system and classified data were not breached (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-3 China

Fintech themes to watch in 2025: relaxed regulation in the second Trump administration, more IPOs, M&A, and VC deal activity, and the expansion of stablecoins (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-2 Trump IPO Fintech

Malaysia says X and Google haven't applied for a new social media license; X cites under 8M Malaysian users, while Google disputes YouTube's classification (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-2 Google YouTube Malaysia

Alibaba sells Sun Art Retail stake to PE firm DCP for ~$1.6B, after paying ~$3.6B in 2020 to double the stake to 70%+, as it focuses on its core online business (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-1 Retail Alibaba

Sources: Mobvista explores selling mobile ad platform Mintegral after getting interest from buyers like Bain Capital; Mobvista stock in HK surged ~190% in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-1 Mobile

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF surpassed $50B in assets in 11 months, marking the fastest-growing ETF debut ever and pushing BTC's price past $100K for the first time (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-31 Bitcoin ETF Asset

Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, signs a deal with Starlink to roll out text messaging in Q4 2025, and plans to add voice and data in later stages (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-31 Mobile Ukraine 4Q

Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon's stock jumped 383% in 2024, giving the company a $37B market cap, driven by the localization of AI chips in the country (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-31 China AI

Ibiden CEO Koji Kawashima says the 112-year-old company, a dominant supplier of chip package substrates to Nvidia, may need to boost capacity due to AI demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-31 AI Nvidia

Elon Musk's new political influence may make it harder for regulators and politicians worldwide to resist Space X's Starlink, which added 20+ nations in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-30 Elon Musk

As Tether says it is on track for a record $10B net profit in 2024, banks around the world are exploring launching their own stablecoins for payments (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-30

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