Kevin Xu is an early-stage investor and founder of Interconnected, a bilingual newsletter covering tech, business and U.S.-Asia relations. Mexico has been known as an up-and-coming tech hub and a gateway to the Latin American market. As an investor focused on developer-centered products, open-source startups and infrastructure technology companies with a particular interest in emerging…
Kevin Xu is an early-stage investor and founder of Interconnected, a bilingual newsletter covering tech, business and U.S.-Asia relations. Mexico has been known as an up-and-coming tech hub and a gateway to the Latin American market. As an investor focused on developer-centered products, open-source startups and infrastructure technology companies with a particular interest in emerging…
Verizon has signed its first European private 5G contract, in a deal with Associated British Ports in the UK. The US firm has been appointed to deploy private 5G at the Port of Southampton. Nokia is providing the networking infrastructure, as part of the deal it struck with Verizon in October to supply enterprises with…
If you watch funding announcements as we do, you may have noticed something this year. There are a lot of mega-rounds coming together, and Tiger Global is involved in a notable number of them, often as the round’s co-lead. Just this week alone, half a dozen companies have announced rounds that the New York-based investing…
MIT researchers have developed a robot that can detect and grab objects that are hidden behind walls or pieces of clutter. The system, called RF-Grasp, uses radio waves to locate items beyond the line-of-sight of a robot’s cameras. It could help warehouse robots grab customer orders or tools that are occluded behind obstacles. Existing mechanical search systems struggle…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday said that an Israeli national pleaded guilty for his role as an “administrator” of a portal called DeepDotWeb (DDW), a “news” website that “served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces.” According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar, 37, an Israeli citizen residing in Brazil,…
President Joe Biden is returning to where his campaign started in Pittsburgh to launch a $2 trillion infrastructure plan, including a pledge to ensure connectivity for all. The eight-year plan will see $100 billion spent on deploying broadband to underserved communities across rural America. In a release, the White House wrote: “President Biden believes that…
President Joe Biden is returning to where his campaign started in Pittsburgh to launch a $2 trillion infrastructure plan, including a pledge to ensure connectivity for all. The eight-year plan will see $100 billion spent on deploying broadband to underserved communities across rural America. In a release, the White House wrote: “President Biden believes that…
President Joe Biden is returning to where his campaign started in Pittsburgh to launch a $2 trillion infrastructure plan, including a pledge to ensure connectivity for all. The eight-year plan will see $100 billion spent on deploying broadband to underserved communities across rural America. In a release, the White House wrote: “President Biden believes that…
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