Visualping raises $6M to make its website change monitoring service smarter
www.techcrunch.com Visualping, a service that can help you monitor websites for changes like price drops or other updates, announced that it has raised a $6 million extension to the $2 million seed round it announced earlier this year. The round was led by Seattle-based FUSE, a relatively new firm with
Save $1,000 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, plus more laptop deals this weekend
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Tumblr’s parent company is buying popular podcast app Pocket Casts
www.techcrunch.com will soon have a new home. Automattic, the parent company of Tumblr and WordPress.com, is buying the podcast app from a collective of public radio groups, including and . Automattic didn’t disclose how much it will pay for Pocket Casts. … Read More
Normani Drops Sizzling New Music Video For ‘Wild Side’ Featuring Cardi B
www.huffpost.com Fans who had been wanting the singer to release new music for two years said the song and accompanying visuals made the wait worth it. … Read More
Sarah Ferguson Talks About Being Pitted Against Princess Diana
www.huffpost.com Ferguson told People magazine that she and the Princess of Wales “were positioned as saint and sinner.” … Read More
Rivian delays deliveries of R1T, R1S electric vehicles again
www.techcrunch.com Rivian is pushing back deliveries of its long-awaited R1T electric pickup truck and R1S SUV several more months due to delays in production caused by “cascading impacts of the pandemic,” particularly the ongoing global shortage of semiconductor chips, according to a letter sent to customers from CEO RJ Scaringe.
Crypto investors like Terraform Labs so much, they’re committing $150 million to its ‘ecosystem’
www.techcrunch.com There are many blockchain platforms competing for investors’ and developers’ attention right now, from the big daddy of them all, Ethereum, to so-called “Ethereum Killers” like Solana, which we wrote about in May. … Read More
Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson will be a Startup Battlefield Judge at Disrupt 2021
www.techcrunch.com Dayna Grayson has been in venture capital for more than a decade and was one of the first VCs to build a portfolio around the transformation of industrial sectors of our economy. … Read More
Mark Wahlberg Says That Eating 11,000 Calories A Day For Film Role Was ‘Not Fun’
www.huffpost.com The 50-year-old told Jimmy Fallon that losing and gaining weight has “absolutely” gotten harder as he’s gotten older, but did what he needed to for the shoot. … Read More