IAS CEO Lisa Utzschneider IAS Ad tech company Integral Ad Science closed up 14% Wednesday afternoon following its stock market debut, trading under the ticker “IAS.” Shares opened at $22, up from its IPO price of $18, valuing the company at close to $3.3 billion. IAS calls itself a “verification company” for digital ads. Its
Shares of cybersecurity company SentinelOne closed up more than 20% in its market debut Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange, going public under the ticket symbol “S.” Shares closed at $42.50, giving the company a market capitalization of more than $10 billion. SentinelOne priced 35 million shares at $35 apiece on Tuesday, above its
Lina Khan, nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 21, 2021. Saul Loeb | Pool | Reuters Amazon is pressing for the recusal of FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan from ongoing antitrust probes of the
Tim Berners-Lee, a native of London, is a recipient of the 1998 MacArthur Fellowship carrying a stipend of $270,000 for his work in pioneering the World Wide Web. Elise Amendol | AP LONDON – With just a few hours to go, a non-fungible token of the original code for the World Wide Web is currently
In this article DIDI DIDI Shares of Didi Chuxing popped more than 14% after the Chinese ride-sharing giant made its public debut Wednesday. The company’s stock began trading at $16.65 per share, up nearly 19% from the company’s offering price of $14 per share. The company’s market cap jumped to nearly $80 billion. Didi was
Adam Mosseri, Facebook Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Facebook’s head of Instagram on Wednesday announced the social network plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds. “We’re also going to be experimenting with how do we embrace video more broadly — full screen, immersive, entertaining, mobile-first video,” Mosseri said in a video posted
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, May 27, 2021. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images Washington D.C. and many tech industry gadflies live in a fantasy world when it comes to big technology companies. In this fantasy world, the tech industry is completely dominated by four massive companies: Alphabet (Google’s holding
In this article AMZN Amazon vans line up at a distribution center to pick up packages for delivery on Amazon Prime Day in Orlando, Florida. Paul Hennessy | NurPhoto | Getty Images Amazon‘s carbon emissions climbed 19% last year, even as the Covid-19 pandemic spurred a sharp drop in global emission levels. In its annual
In this article AAPL Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the opening of the new Apple Tower Theater retail store at Apple Tower Theatre on June 24, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. JC Olivera | Getty Images Apple released the public beta for iOS 15 on Wednesday, allowing iPhone owners to try out the new software
The New York Stock Exchange welcomes executives and guests of Clear Secure, Inc. (NYSE: YOU), on June 30, 2021, in celebration of its Initial Public Offering. NYSE On a day with more tech IPOs than available bell-ringing slots at U.S. exchanges, investors reaped billions of dollars in gains. But the winners extended far beyond Silicon
Firework, a short video platform, has entered the live commerce space and launched a solution to allow businesses and brands to sell their products through shoppable videos and livestreams. The new launch is aimed at letting brands build their e-commerce presence using live video streams on their websites and apps. Firework is making its shoppable
Zoom has acquired a real-time machine translation company named Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions – Kites. The company looks to leverage Kites resources to improve meeting productivity and efficiency on Zoom by providing real-time multi-language translation capabilities for users. Zoom says that “Kites’ talented team of 12 research scientists will help its engineering team advance the
It’s been eight months since Jack Ma, the most famous business executive China has ever produced, all but dropped from public view. Eight months and, by conservative estimates, some $70 billion (roughly Rs. 5,21,000 crores). That’s the optimistic view on how much Ma’s Ant Group has plummeted in value since the outspoken billionaire openly pushed
Google will clamp down on financial fraud on its platform in Britain, saying on Wednesday that all financial services will need to be verified by the regulator before they can advertise. Britain’s financial watchdog issued 1,200 consumer warnings last year about scams advertised via social media platforms by fake companies, double the number in 2019.
Tamil Nadu’s Public Distribution System (PDS) was breached and data that included personal information of close to 50 lakh users was uploaded on a hacker forum, according to Bengaluru-based cyber-security firm TechniSanct. The leaked data apparently included Aadhaar numbers as well as sensitive details of the beneficiaries, including their family information and mobile numbers. Hackers
Loki episode 4 — out now on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — just turned the new Marvel series on its head. Keep reading for our recap, unless you’re worried about spoilers. Sylvie’s (Sophia Di Martino) reveal, from Loki episode 3, that those who work for the Time Variance Authority are time variants like Loki (Tom
Loki episode 4 has the new Marvel Cinematic Universe series’ first post-credits scene, with two episodes to go in the first season. As such, it would be completely understandable if you missed it given there has been not a single scene during the credits for the first three Loki episodes. It’s not a lengthy scene,
Google is adding the ability to set a custom status for Gmail and Google Chat. Users could earlier choose between three options — Active, Do not disturb, and Away — but can now add their custom message. The new status update capability for Gmail and Google Chat accompanies this month’s change in the name from
GitHub Copilot has been introduced to make coding on the platform easier. It is an “AI pair programmer” that suggests whole lines of code or entire functions based on how you code and what you are working on. GitHub Copilot is in a limited technical preview as of now, so the slots to enrol are
Google Chrome is reportedly getting an ‘HTTPS-only mode’ soon. The new feature for the Chrome Web browser, once switched on, will automatically “upgrade” any website with the HTTP protocol to the HTTPS protocol, if it is available. Chrome already defaults to using HTTPS protocol if a protocol isn’t specified. The ‘HTTPS-only mode’ is reportedly still