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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=17c979c057&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after she ran NBCUniversal's ad business</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c4e201b9ed&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Honestly didn't realize she was still CEO. Was she even mentioned when they merged with xAI? Kudos for lasting about 2x as long as anyone expected. Which is to say, two years.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c02eafa23f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Kinda wild that the *secondary screen* on Samsung's new flip phone is bigger (4.1") than the original iPhone's screen (3.5"). Screenflation (from MKBHD) [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a92b040ad5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Perplexity launches Comet, its first AI web browser, initially available on its $200 per month Max plan and via a waitlist, in a bid to compete with Chrome</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maxwell Zeff / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f864b507f0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Apple is planning the first Vision Pro upgrade later in 2025, with an M4 chip and a new strap, and a lighter, redesigned version for 2027</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fa2f2156cf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google adds AI Mode and gaming features to Android's Circle to Search, and Gemini Live support for foldables and third-party apps, starting with Samsung devices</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jess Weatherbed / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c61d4f49df&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says it will roll out Gemini for Wear OS “over the coming weeks” to Wear OS 4+ on Pixel, Samsung, OnePlus, OPPO, Xiaomi, and more, replacing Assistant</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Abner Li / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Google</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=86676d0f9c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Analysis: Chinese companies aim to install 115K+ US-sanctioned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 39 data centers across China's western deserts, mostly in Xinjiang</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4473a6a9e9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">France's antitrust regulator has notified Meta of a potential antitrust violation, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in the online ad sector</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Benoit Berthelot / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e092ec0604&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Apple is in talks to acquire the US streaming rights for Formula 1, following the success of F1 the Movie, which has generated ~$300M at the box office</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=96a2ec7341&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google rolls out a new Gmail feature for managing subscriptions that shows a list of emails delivered via active subscriptions, sorted by most frequent sender</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew Liszewski / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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samsung galaxy unpacked
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bbc7b85333&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Samsung unveils the $899+ Galaxy Z Flip7 FE, with a smaller cover screen than the Z Flip7's, a smaller battery, no telephoto, and Android 16, in two colors</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew Romero / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Google</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=88d666b0db&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Samsung unveils the $349 Galaxy Watch 8 in 40mm and 44mm sizes and the $499 Watch 8 Classic in 46mm, with Gemini and an Antioxidant Index for carotenoid levels</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew Romero / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Google</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=07e5607d40&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 will be the first smartphones to ship with Android 16, and the Watch 8 Series will be the first to ship with Wear OS 6</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mariella Moon / </span><span class="pub_name">Engadget</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=99563c5dbf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 hands-on: vastly thinner and lighter than the Fold6, a wider display format, no S Pen support, and feels like a normal phone when closed</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Allison Johnson / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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artificial intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9d7bf4f944&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Microsoft's Chief Commercial Officer said during a presentation that AI saved Microsoft $500M+ last year in its call centers and increased satisfaction</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brody Ford / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b82b1830e2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI officially closes its ~$6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products, after a trademark suit from hearing device startup Iyo</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Hayden Field / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=efdd7434d3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft announces a $4B commitment in cash and tech to support AI education in schools and more, and starts Elevate Academy, an AI training program for adults</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Natasha Singer / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d8fbabe1da&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M+ pay package over a several-year period in line with Meta's other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2a0cd41e40&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Hertz and other car rental agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and AI to flag even tiny blemishes, angering some customers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Gabe Castro-Root / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ea9cc0a333&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says a “culture of fear”, with performance reviews and layoffs, is spreading like “a metastatic cancer”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kalley Huang / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ce96101c4d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: OpenAI plans to launch an open-weight model as soon as next week on Hugging Face and other platforms, its first open-weight release since GPT-2 in 2019</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tom Warren / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cfe430fe69&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers detail All-Topographic Neural Networks, claiming they better mimic human spatial biases and consume less energy than other machine vision networks</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matthew S. Smith / </span><span class="pub_name">IEEE Spectrum</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=65d2728be6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">California State Senator Scott Wiener makes amendments to SB 53, which has transparency requirements for AI companies but omits SB 1047's provision on liability</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Shirin Ghaffary / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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infosec
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3656988d54&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US Treasury's OFAC sanctions individuals and companies linked to North Korea's fake tech worker scheme, including “malicious cyber actor” Song Kum Hyok</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Magdalena Del Valle / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5fcc39bd19&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers: the Anatsa banking trojan snuck into Google Play once again via an app disguised as a PDF viewer, which had 50K+ downloads before Google removed it</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Bill Toulas / </span><span class="pub_name">BleepingComputer</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=66b8cb869d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Qantas confirms a recent cyberattack exposed personal details of 5.7M customers, including names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Stephanie Chalmers / </span><span class="pub_name">ABC</span>)</span>
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cryptocurrency
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=49793d37a5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US federal prosecutors accuse two US men of operating and promoting OmegaPro, a crypto multi-level marketing scam that allegedly defrauded victims out of $650M+</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">MacKenzie Sigalos / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=224ba61689&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How crypto executives, lobbyists, campaign operatives, and Trump business partners turned President Trump from an outspoken bitcoin skeptic into a supporter</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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creator economy
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a28546fb0e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube is updating its monetization guidelines on July 15, defining “inauthentic” content as “mass-produced and repetitious” amid concerns over AI slop</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c4d6fa2ded&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Yahoo Creators, launched in March 2024, offering creators a 50/50 ad revenue split for original written content, with 135 lifestyle creators signed up</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Digiday</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=73dcef5121&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">a16z moves its state of incorporation to Nevada, saying Delaware's Court of Chancery “can at times appear biased against technology startup founders”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Andreessen Horowitz</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=08679a5a69&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Israeli VC firm Cyberstarts has raised a $300M fund to allow long-time employees at some of its portfolio companies to cash out their vested shares</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kate Clark / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c3f8a8167c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Revolut is in talks to raise about $1B of funding via newly issued shares and the sale of some existing stock at a $65B valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f68a7796cd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Groq has talked with investors about raising $300M to $500M at a $6B post-investment valuation, which would double its $2.8B valuation from August 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5dbea41e47&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">MaintainX, which makes maintenance and operations software, raised a $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $254M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ateev Bhandari / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d61b4d13cc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: LangChain, which helps developers use off-the-shelf AI models to create new apps, raised $100M led by IVP at a $1.1B valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rashi Shrivastava / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d0c42c4d15&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ServiceUp, a vehicle repair process automation startup, raised a $55M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to nearly $70M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mary Ann Azevedo / </span><span class="pub_name">Crunchbase News</span>)</span>
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