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RapidAPI, an API marketplace that processes 400B API calls each month, raises $9M led by A16Z
APIs — lightweight application interfaces that developers use both to integrate third-party services into their own apps, and to let their apps get used more easily by other developers — have become an essential, and fast-growing, building block of the tech world. Now, a startup that helps app builders find, use, pay for and track…
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India-based music streaming service Gaana raises $115M led by Tencent
Chinese internet giant Tencent is continuing to put its money in India and in music streaming services after it agreed to lead a $115 million investment in India’s Gaana. Gaana is a music streaming service that was started by Times Media, the company behind the Times of India newspaper and tech incubator Times Internet among…
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Apple says a processing error led it to send developers wrong app install and ad spend details
Yesterday, we noted and reported on how Apple was sending developers emails with install and ad spend details for other developers’ apps. Today, Apple has sent out a note to developers to say that a processing error caused the problem, and that in the future it will only send alerts by email, but that developers…
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Goxip raises $5M led by Meitu to build an influencer marketing platform for fashion in Asia
Goxip, a Hong Kong-based social shopping service, has raised $5 million to branch out into influencer marketing. The investment was led by Meitu, the $6 billion Hong Kong-listed company that develops selfie apps and selfie-optimized phones, with participation from Hong Kong conglomerate Nan Fung Group via its inaugural Mills Fabrica Fund. Others who took part…
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The Bloody Uprising Against the Taliban Led by One of Their Own
BALKH AAB, Afghanistan — The rumbling of engines echoed across the valley at dusk, as scores of men with mismatched camouflage and mud-caked Kalashnikovs descended into the town in northern Afghanistan. Many had driven hours down the snow-capped mountains to reach the town and join forces with Mawlawi Mahdi Mujahid, a former Shiite commander within…
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Killed at 71, Ayman al-Zawahri Led a Life of Secrecy and Violence
Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian-born surgeon-turned-jihadist who assumed the leadership of Al Qaeda after the killing of Osama bin Laden and who died at 71 in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, over the weekend, according to U.S. officials, led a life steeped in secrecy, betrayal, conspiracy and violence, most murderously in the Sept. 11 attacks…
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Asana raises $75M Series D led by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management
Asana, the productivity and collaboration service, is getting a major infusion of cash after Generation Investment Management, a London-based firm backed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, led a $75 million investment. Investment Management was joined in this Series D round by existing backers 8VC, Founders Fund, Y Combinator President Sam Altman who also participated…
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Cómo hacer que el LED de tu iPhone parpadee para recibir notificaciones y cuando suene
Es posible estar al tanto de lo que sucede sin molestas campanadas durante una conversación al permitir que el flash LED del iPhone emita una alerta. los iPhone tiene una notable cantidad de flexibilidad cuando se trata de notificaciones y sonidos, y Apple agregó cuidadosamente la opción de hacer parpadear la luz LED para llamadas…
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Las lámparas LED Pokémon Escarlata y Violeta traen a los principiantes al hogar
Anticipándose a los próximos Pokémon Scarlet y Violet, una pareja ha creado tres lámparas basadas en los tres Pokémon iniciales revelados. Un par de jugadores talentosos han creado un trío de lámparas de la vida real con el tema del Pokémon inicial del próximo Pokémon Escarlata y Violeta. Los tres iniciales, que se llaman Sprigatito,…
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Shang-Chi Bus Fight editada con una canción de Led Zeppelin hace que Simu Liu sea aún más genial
Un devoto fanático de Shang-Chi y la Leyenda de los Diez Anillos ha reeditado la icónica escena de la pelea en el autobús para presentar la Canción del Inmigrante de Led Zeppelin. La famosa pelea en el autobús de Marvel’s Shang-Chi y la Leyenda de los Diez Anillos ha sido reeditado en “Immigrant Song” de…