October 2020 – Page 4

Streetbees raises $39M in a Series B round as brands race to interrogate Pandemic-hit consumers

Streetbees started out as an app for consumers to snap pictures of supermarket shelf layouts and get paid. Consumer brands wanted to know if the supermarkets really had put them at…

lecrab 28 October 2020

Technology News

Sidekick Health scores $20M for its gamified digital care platform

Nordic digital therapeutics company, Sidekick Health, has closed a $20 million Series A led by pan-European VC Wellington Partners and healthcare focused VC Asabys Partners. Existing investors, Novator and Frumtak…

lecrab 28 October 2020

Technology News

Harley-Davidson is getting into the electric bicycle business

Harley-Davidson has spun out a new business dedicated to electric bicycles and plans to bring its first line of products to market in spring 2021. The new business called Serial…

lecrab 28 October 2020

Technology News

Watch Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s CEOs defend the law that created social media to Congress

The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google will appear before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday in big tech’s latest showdown with Congress. The Senate hearing will have a narrower,…

lecrab 28 October 2020

eSports

DreamHack Sports Games partners with eManager to create eSuperliga fantasy game

DreamHack Sports Games, MTG’s sports simulation business unit, has partnered with eManager to launch a FIFA esports fantasy game, in which fans create a ‘dream team’ from eSuperliga players. The…

lecrab 27 October 2020

Technology News

Thanks to COVID-19, emissions and coal use may have peaked in 2019

If analysts from BloombergNEF are right, then all of the world’s most greenhouse gas polluting days are behind it, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. A sharp drop in energy demand…

lecrab 27 October 2020

Technology News

Deep tech VC fund The Engine raises $230M for its second fund from MIT and new backer Harvard

Deep tech. Hard tech. Or, as The Engine dubs it, Tough Tech. Venture investing today is essentially identical to what happens on Wall Street, focused on data rooms, spreadsheets, SaaS…

lecrab 27 October 2020

eSports

FACEIT and Ubisoft launch North American FPL for Rainbow Six Siege

Esports platform and tournament organiser FACEIT and game developer Ubisoft have announced the launch of the North American FPL ladder for Rainbow Six Siege. The launch follows on from the introduction a European FPL…

lecrab 27 October 2020

eSports

Team Queso announces content-focused partnership with Digital Virgo

Spanish esports organisation Team Queso has entered into a content-focused partnership with technology firm Digital Virgo. Image credit: Team Queso The agreement will see Team Queso provide weekly video-on-demand content,…

lecrab 27 October 2020

Technology News

Face to Face, Tinder’s opt-in video chat feature, is now rolling out globally

Tinder, currently the world’s biggest biggest dating app for people to find matches and connect with them, is expanding another feature today to extend the time people spend in the…

lecrab 27 October 2020