Canva, the high-flying Australian design and visual communication startup, announced today it was acquiring Affinity (formerly Serif), a creative tools company based in the U.K. Bloomberg reported that the deal was worth several hundred million pounds (approximately $380 million U.S.), and the company confirmed to […]
Month: March 2024
NASA’s snake robot is designed to search out life in the icy oceans of a Saturn moon
The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic attributes. The first is redundancy, which allows for the system to keep chugging even after a module is damaged. […]
Microsoft is bringing more Copilot smarts to Teams
Microsoft is continuing on its mission to inject AI into more of its products and features. For one thing, Copilot is coming to more parts of Teams in the coming months, including the meeting chat and the chat compose box. The AI will soon be […]
Gunzilla Games raises $30M to support Off the Grid development
Gunzilla Games has raised an additional $30 million in funding to launch its upcoming third-person shooter Off the Grid.
Robinhood’s new credit card goes after Apple Card with ability to invest cash-back perks
Eight months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95 million, Robinhood announced today the launch of its new Gold Card, with a list of features that could even give Apple Card users envy. Robinhood, better known for its brokerage app aimed at the everyday […]
Meet Uzbekistan’s first unicorn: e-commerce startup Uzum
Uzum, an e-commerce startup offering online shopping, fintech and food deliveries to millions of customers in Uzbekistan, has raised $114 million in funding, becoming the country’s first unicorn with a valuation of $1.16 billion. Uzbekistan is fertile ground for startups, given the fact that people […]
AI and data infrastructure drives demand for open source startups
A new report highlights the demand for startups building open source tools and technologies for the snowballing AI revolution, with the adjacent data infrastructure vertical also heating up. Runa Capital, the venture capital (VC) firm that upped sticks from Silicon Valley and moved its HQ to […]
Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare
Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature that grants users a free premium membership in exchange for allowing the instant messaging app to utilize their phone number as a relay for sending one-time SMS passwords to other users attempting to log into the platform, raising […]
Flash News | Mar 26 2024 | Global Events Today
Crises and Political Shifts – Today’s news highlights include Gaza’s ceasefire calls amid escalating violence, Baltimore’s bridge collapse disaster, Venezuela’s electoral turmoil, Julian Assange’s extradition battle, political resignations in India,…
Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite
Affinity’s professional design software could give Canva the edge it needs to seriously compete against Adobe. | Image: Canva Web-based design platform Canva has acquired the Affinity creative software suite, positioning itself as a challenger to Adobe’s grip over the digital design industry. Canva announced […]