UK’s early-stage media tech VC GMG Ventures rebrands to Mercuri, closes £50M fund

UK-based early-stage media technology venture capital firm GMG Ventures has rebranded to Mercuri. It has also raised £50 million ($81.35 million) for its second fund led by British Business... Read more »

Twitter said only verified users will be able to access TweetDeck after 30 days

After swathes of users were unable to access parts of TweetDeck over the last few days, Twitter started rolling out a new version of the web app to users... Read more »

Rivian delivers first electric vans to Amazon in Europe

Amazon has begun rolling out its custom electric delivery vans from Rivian in Europe, the e-commerce giant said Monday. This will be Rivian’s first commercial shipment of vans outside... Read more »

Threads, Instagram’s Twitter competitor, is expected July 6

Instagram’s rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the U.S. The app will be called Threads, and according to App Store data, it’s expected to... Read more »

Twitter competitors soar after yet another bad Musk move

Twitter was even messier than usual this weekend. On Saturday, owner Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter would combat “extreme levels of data scraping,” by limiting accounts that don’t subscribe... Read more »

Max Q: Virgin Galactic’s triumphant first commercial flight

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: What the future holds for Virgin Galactic  News from NASA, and more Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight brings payloads... Read more »

EV maker Arrival’s second SPAC is now a dead SPAC

Troubled commercial EV maker Arrival has just ended a deal to merge — for the second time in less than three years — with a special purpose acquisition company.... Read more »

Molly Alter leaving Index Ventures for Northzone

There’s been quite a bit of movement lately among venture capitalists moving to new firms or going out on their own, while others are getting into VC. NEA partner... Read more »

Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah amid changing laws

Pornhub is blocking access from users in states like Mississippi, Virginia and Utah, which have recently passed laws that require age verification to access adult websites. Similar legislation went... Read more »

As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users

While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its Tweetdeck app, open source Twitter alternative Mastodon is celebrating the launch of a significant refresh of... Read more »
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