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Industrials Up Despite Caterpillar Selloff -- Industrials Roundup
Shares of industrial and transportation companies rose as deal activity offset worries about Caterpillar's exposure to the volatile artificial-intelligence business. Shares of Caterpillar tumbled after third-quarter revenue growth lagged Wall…
Southeast Asia's startups get 'a lot less oxygen': Rakuten Capital's Saemin Ahn
Saemin Ahn made his name betting on Southeast Asia. Now, as the region starts to pull itself out of a years-long venture funding slump, he's not sure the old model works for the region anymore. “I'm pretty pessimistic about the prospects of…
Gerry Cardinale's RedBird Capital, Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures Set $1 Billion Investment Partnership
Gerry Cardinale's RedBird Capital Partners and Guy Oseary 's venture capital firm Sound Ventures are partnering to invest $1 billion in emerging platforms at the convergence of tech, media and culture. The firms said the partnership “will…
Gerry Cardinale's RedBird Capital, Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures Ink $1 Billion Investment Partnership
RedBird Capiral Partners, the investment firm founded by Gerry Cardinale, and Sound Ventures, the investment company co-founded by music industry talent manager Guy Oseary, have inked a $1 billion dollar partnership. The two firms will deploy that…
Why Josh Kushner's Firm Just Spent $7.6 Billion on a 150-Year-Old Company
Josh Kushner's investment empire just forged its largest single transaction. It wasn't a bet on a hot startup—it was the purchase of a 150-year-old home security business. Thrive Holdings, a Kushner-led firm that acquires older businesses…
From VC legends to banks, these Australians have a stake in Anthropic
Emma Rapaport Technology reporterEmma Rapaport covers technology for the Australian Financial Review, specialising in private companies and venture capital. Before that, she was a co-editor of the Street Talk column and a markets reporter. Connect…
Fiserv: Price Is Down But Strong Fundamentals Remain Intact (NASDAQ:FISV)
Fiserv maintains its compounding characteristics despite missteps leading to recent revenue and margin guidance cuts, with strategic assets and market leadership remaining intact. Fiserv's market leadership, transaction volume scale, distribution…
How a co-owner of the New York Giants is using AI to build a women's sports powerhouse with Gotham FC
New York Giants and Gotham FC co-owner Carolyn Tisch Blodgett is betting on AI to transform women's sports into a major moneymaker. 'If AI can make you more efficient, that totally changes where women's sports can go,' Tisch Blodgett said at…
Employee training startup raises $40 million
Israeli employee training video startup Bites reported on Thursday the completion of a $40 million Series A fundraising round, bringing its total fundraising to approximately $55 million since the company's establishment. The round was led by…
ARTHUR HERMAN: Musk and others prove that this election cash is king. Will it be enough?
What lit a fire under billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this midterm cycle? He's given more than $445 million to Republican candidates and causes this year, making him the single biggest disclosed donor in the 2026 midterms — and the biggest…
Cisco chief found a 27-year-old ex-founder 'buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic'-now the Gen Zer is rewriting 98% of its code
Gen Z can't catch a break. Entry-level jobs are vanishing ; some 40% of bosses say they plan to hire fewer grads because AI can do the job cheaper, and young workers are routinely slammed for showing up late and refusing to put in overtime for…
Nigeria's ISN Plans Gathering to Match Startups With Investors
Nigeria's Innovation Support Network (ISN) is planning its seventh annual gathering to connect startup founders and innovation hubs with investors, putting commercial pathways for homegrown technology at the center of its program. The event, themed…
AI Dubbing Pioneer Flawless Sells Tech To Steven Schuurman Venture
EXCLUSIVE: Flawless, the British-American company that spent $100 million building SAG-AFTRA-endorsed AI dubbing technology used on movies like Fall, has sold its intellectual property. In an unusual deal that raises questions about Flawless'…
Formation raises $600 million to fix AI's biotech bottleneck
We've written about how AI thus far has been much better at discovering drugs than developing them, which is a bit like being great at grocery shopping but helpless in the kitchen. Driving the news: Formation Bio also sees the stubborn bottleneck…
Why I'm protesting against the Palantir contract: a mother's perspective on raising her son in Poland
I moved to Poland from London with my Polish husband, and we are raising our two-year-old son here. My son will grow up and live his entire life within the digital infrastructure that the government is building today. The fact that I was not born…
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