Top news of the week: 15.09.2022.
Former Disney chief Iger to join VC firm Thrive Capital
Thrive Capital said on Tuesday that Walt Disney Co's former top boss, Robert Iger, will join the investment firm as a venture partner.
Northzone, the European VC firm that backed Spotify and Klarna, has raised a €1B fund, its largest to date, and will allocate ~40% to later-stage investments
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Roblox will give a handful of game developers $500,000 each to build its future
Roblox sees its Game Fund as a way to support impressive, visually exciting games that mostly don’t look or even work like what the platform is known for.
Roblox jumps into online advertising as revenue growth slows
Roblox plans to debut immersive ads in 2023, marking the company's first major effort to generate revenue from something other in-game purchases.
Regulators appear to be growing increasingly wary of banks and fintech startups getting too cozy
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Failure to launch
A Vox investigation into Launch House, a startup incubator that promised community, but failed to protect its members.
Walmart introduces virtual try-on tech which uses customers’ own photos to model the clothing
Walmart is expanding its support for AI-powered virtual try-on technology that allows online shoppers to better visualize clothing on models that look like themselves in both appearance and ...
Idaho’s Far Right Suffers Election Loss to 18-Year-Old Climate Activist
High school senior Shiva Rajbhandari won elected office in Boise, defeating an incumbent school board trustee backed by local extremists.