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Mehta stepped down from his role as the company’s CEO last year and following Tuesday’s IPO, will cease to serve as Executive Chairman. Online grocery delivery startup Instacart’s founder Apoorva Mehta is now a billionaire after selling 700,000 shares of the company. Mehta, 37, co-founded Instacart in 2012 and went on to grow the business to a market value of $8.8 billion following an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Tuesday. Mehta is now reportedly worth $1.1 billion. At its peak in March...

Toshiba believes that going private may help give the company renewed focus to tackle all of its teeming problems. Japanese multinational electronics company Toshiba Corporation is set to go private after a successful acquisition by a group of buyers led by Japan Industrial Partners. The deal, worth ¥2 trillion ($13.5 billion) will reverse Toshiba’s status as a publicly-listed company. Toshiba has officially announced that the JIP-led group now holds 78.65% of the company’s outstanding...

Walmart has broadened the shopping experience for its customers in the metaverse as it merges purchases in the physical and virtual worlds. American multinational retail corporation Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) plans to expand its metaverse strategy by allowing its customers to buy physical versions of items available for virtual home purchases. Users can now purchase the items for their physical homes as they would for their virtual homes in House Flip, a game where players can renovate and...

Traffic on Google Maps has dropped by 40% over the last two years with the introduction of the Apple Switch as the likely reason behind this. Two years following Apple Inc‘s decision to replace Google Maps with its own app as the default service on iPhones, Google managed to recover only 40 percent of its previous mobile traffic on its mapping service. A Google executive disclosed these details during the antitrust trial involving Alphabet Inc. Michael Roszak, Google’s Vice President for...

The step into the world of generative AI seems to be part of LimeWire’s rebranding strategy. Peer-to-peer file-sharing platform LimeWire has announced its acquisition of the popular AI image generation platform BlueWillowAI. The Wednesday announcement comes after the August launch of LimeWire AI Studio, a move into the world of generative AI by a company that was widely known for its popularity in the music piracy scene before being shut down in 2011. BlueWillow was launched in January and...

In addition to Flows, WhatsApp is taking steps to empower businesses with payment solutions.  B2B customers in India can now make payments to companies within the chat using their preferred payment methods.  In an eagerly awaited announcement, WhatsApp, a subsidiary of Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) has unveiled its latest feature, “Flows”. This innovation promises to reshape the way businesses communicate with their customers and clients, offering a seamless and dynamic messaging...

Although hundreds of billions away, Microsoft’s valuation is gradually closing in on that of Apple, racing to become the world’s largest. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is making progress with its valuation and seems ready to give Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) a run for its money. The company’s valuation is now moving closer to Apple’s as it races to overtake the iPhone maker as the world’s largest company by market cap. According to Marketwatch data as of writing time, Apple shares have...

Aside from the popular Apple and Samsung brands, Huawei is probably one of the few other companies that has designed its smartphone processor. Another threat may just have added to the number of issues that Apple Inc (NASDAQ: APPL) currently faces in China. Despite the pertinent geopolitical and economic threats to its existence in the region, the giant tech firm now faces an additional challenge from a resurgent Huawei. That is because China’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer SMIC has...

Bastion plans to use the funds to scale its operations, attract top engineering talent, and secure additional licensing to diversify its product offerings. Bastion, a newly launched Web3 startup co-founded by two former executives from Andreessen Horowitz‘s digital assets venture division a16z Crypto, has secured $25 million in a seed funding round despite recent challenges in the venture capital landscape. In an official press release on September 18, the company announced that its former...

The merger between Hut 8 and USBTC is not just a significant event within the crypto space, it also holds great promise for investors and the broader financial markets. In a recent development, Hut 8 Mining Corp (NASDAQ: HUT) has received final approval from the British Columbia Supreme Court for its merger with US Bitcoin Corp (USBTC). The Journey to Merger Between Hut 8 and USBTC The merger between Hut 8 and USBTC was first announced in February 2023, marking a pivotal moment in the...