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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

TechCrunch

Others have used their considerable platforms to market their portfolio to varying degrees of success. It’s been a little over a year since Ryan Reynolds bought a majority stake in Mint Mobile, a deal that has already had a dramatic impact on the the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator).

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Fleet nabs $20M to enable enterprises to manage their devices

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Fleet arose from an open source project called Osquery that was created by CTO Zach Wasserman together with Moonfire Ventures partner Mike Arpaia. Wasserman was a software engineer on the security team at Meta (formerly Facebook) and cofounded two companies, Kolide and Dactiv, before settling in at Fleet. billion by 2026. More than 1.65

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. Concept illustration depicting technical support. But first… what is a game engine, exactly? Game plan.

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3 Conferences Organized by DevNetwork in August

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Jameson – Engineer manager at Monte Carlo Data Jiri Kobelka – CEO and founder at Tatum …and many more Developer Week Cloud X will have different stages that include live keynote talks, technical workshops, multi-speaker talks, panel talks, and interactive audience Q&A. Simply fill out this form to get yours.

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WizeHire lands fresh cash to expand its SMB-focused hiring platform

TechCrunch

The tranche values the company at $250 million post-money, and cofounder and CEO Sid Upadhyay says that it’ll be put toward growing WizeHire’s over-100-person headcount, expanding the company’s hiring resources and “further establish[ing]” relationships with technical partners.

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A ‘Stripe for phone plans’: Gigs raises $20M to help any company be an MVNO

TechCrunch

A new startup wants to make it easier for any company to sell phone and data plans as part of their own branded mobile network subscriptions — and to help, it has secured the backing of big-name investors including Google’s early-stage venture capital arm Gradient Ventures and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. In the U.S.,

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Crypto investors have 1099 problems, but Cointracker helps make sure filing taxes isn’t one

TechCrunch

Over 3% of the entire global cryptocurrency market, representing over $50 billion worth of digital assets, is tracked on CoinTracker , its CEO and cofounder Jon Lerner told TechCrunch in an interview. CoinTracker’s interface on desktop and mobile Image Credits: Cointracker. CoinTracker last raised $1.5