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Euro VCs welcome Balderton’s fresh $1.3B but grumble about Europe’s AI misses
Balderton Capital — one of the older, larger, European VCs noted for investing in Revolt and Wayve — has raised a fresh $ 1.3 billion in total, spread across two funds. Its Early Stage Fund IX will get $ 615 million, and its Growth Fund II will get $ 685 million. The news was greeted with cautious […]
Tens Of Thousands To Welcome Kylian Mbappe To Real Madrid
Still celebrating Spain’s Euro 2024 triumph, Real Madrid fans will have even more to cheer Tuesday as French superstar Kylian Mbappe is officially presented to a packed-out Santiago Bernabeu stadium. With an expected attendance of 85,000, the stadium will be packed to the rafters for Mbappe’s first appearance before fans in what should beat the […]
WATCH: Stephanie Vaquer gets warm welcome from WWE Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest
You can bet Stephanie Vaquer feels like she’s sitting on top of the world right now. It’s been a whirlwind last several days for the veteran superstar wrestler, having gone from an electric PPV showing for AEW and NJPW last week to a bidding war that led her to the WWE and then, almost immediately […]
Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more
Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away (this one, in fact), a few internet rebels decided that they were tired of the corporate overlords controlling their online lives. Thus, the fediverse was born — an attempt to wrest control of microblogging services, such as Twitter and its ilk, away from centralized […]