Autonomous air taxi startup Wisk Aero, a joint venture between Boeing and Kitty Hawk, raises $450M from Boeing (Sylvia Pfeifer/Financial Times)

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Autonomous air taxi startup Wisk Aero, a joint venture between Boeing and Kitty Hawk, raises $450M from Boeing  —  US manufacturer’s Wisk investment is latest sign of investor appetite in emerging sector  —  Boeing has committed another $450m in an existing joint venture focused …

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Brazil-based Buser, which partners with charter bus companies to offer customers safe and low cost travel via its app, raises $138M from LGT, SoftBank, others (Alberto Alerigi Jr/Reuters)

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Brazil-based Buser, which partners with charter bus companies to offer customers safe and low cost travel via its app, raises $138M from LGT, SoftBank, others  —  SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian intercity bus startup Buser said on Thursday it had raised 700 million reais ($138 million) …

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Sources: Nintendo will only be able to produce ~24M units of Switch game console in FY 2021 due to chip shortages, 20% below its original plan of 30M (Nikkei Asia)

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Sources: Nintendo will only be able to produce ~24M units of Switch game console in FY 2021 due to chip shortages, 20% below its original plan of 30M  —  Production revised down to 24 million units for fiscal 2021 despite high demand  —  OSAKA — Nintendo will only be able to produce …

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Mosaic, which makes software to automate construction planning, raises a $44M Series B led by Peak State Ventures, bringing its total raised to $68.8M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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Mosaic, which makes software to automate construction planning, raises a $44M Series B led by Peak State Ventures, bringing its total raised to $68.8M  —  Mosaic Building Group, a Phoenix, Arizona-based construction tech startup, has raised $44 million in a Series B funding round led by Peak State Ventures.

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Capchase, a lending service that helps SaaS companies with recurring revenue grow their operations, raises $280M, following a $125M round in June (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

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Capchase, a lending service that helps SaaS companies with recurring revenue grow their operations, raises $280M, following a $125M round in June  —  Almost overnight, platforms that offer non-dilutive capital for recurring revenue businesses have become white-hot.

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OnlyFans shares new TOS for “sexually explicit conduct”: no intercourse, masturbation, exhibition of genitals; any such content must be removed before Dec. 1 (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

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OnlyFans shares new TOS for “sexually explicit conduct”: no intercourse, masturbation, exhibition of genitals; any such content must be removed before Dec. 1  —  Sex and masturbation, whether simulated or real, aren’t allowed  —  On Thursday the video and image sharing site …

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Mercato, which provides e-commerce tools to small grocers and specialty food stores, raises $26M Series A led by Velvet Sea Ventures (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Mercato, which provides e-commerce tools to small grocers and specialty food stores, raises $26M Series A led by Velvet Sea Ventures  —  The pandemic upended the way people shop for their everyday needs, including groceries.  Online grocery sales in the U.S. are expected to reach 21.5% …

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Berkshire Hathaway’s stock is growing past $421K+, a problem for stock exchanges like Nasdaq that use compact digital format with a limit of $429,496.7295 (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)

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Berkshire Hathaway’s stock is growing past $421K+, a problem for stock exchanges like Nasdaq that use compact digital format with a limit of $429,496.7295  —  Warren Buffett won’t split shares, which are fast approaching Nasdaq’s limit  —  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is trading …

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Physical trading cards marketplace and custody service Alt raises a $75M Series B at a $325M+ valuation, says $70M+ worth of cards are stored in its vault (Greg Kumparak/TechCrunch)

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Physical trading cards marketplace and custody service Alt raises a $75M Series B at a $325M+ valuation, says $70M+ worth of cards are stored in its vault  —  When we last checked in with Alt back in March, it had just raised $31M for its alternative asset platform — a platform, thus far …

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Report: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site (Katie Canales/Insider)

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Report: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site  —  – Personal data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum.

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