今日はソニーのHMDの価格が発表になったことでVR・AR関連の話題多かったけど、そうでなくてもやはり情報量は増えてる印象。調達関連はGunosyのインドネシア投資が少し気になったかな。
資金調達関連
- Alibaba’s Cainiao Logistics Confirms First Financing At $7.7B Valuation Link
- Venture firm Accel Partners just raised $2B from its investors Link
- Japan’s Gunosy invests $5M in Indonesia-based Kurio, a fellow news-reading app Link
- Online tutoring marketplace flipClass raises US$1M from S Chand, Blume Ventures Link
- Chinese social network for plastic surgery gets $50m funding Link
- Next Insurance secures $13 million to sell insurance to small businesses Link
- Crate raises $4M seed round for its next-gen SQL database Link
- Japan’s Yamap raises $1.5 million to gamify hiking Link
- Online merchandise platform for gaming firms PowerCore raises US$2M funding Link
- Israeli Alooma raises US$11.2M to ease Big Data analysis Link
- DNA-testing startup Prenetics gets $10m series A to ensure the meds won’t kill you Link
- InstaRem raises $5M to make overseas money transfers cheaper and faster in Asia Link
- Startups, what would you do with $2 billion? Accel has 9 big ideas Link
VR/AR関連
- Free-to-play is preparing to swarm into the virtual reality market Link
- With the Sony PlayStation VR, virtual reality is having its iPod moment (FB, ADR) Link
- Crytek is offering developers its VR-ready game engine for free Link
- Did Sony just win the VR war? Link
- Sony announces PlayStation VR will launch in October for $399 Link
- Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine is Industrial Light and Magic’s new virtual reality game Link
- Sony partners with EA and Lucasfilm to create VR version of Star Wars Battlefront Link
- How Samsung’s VR thriller will change the way film directors manufacture fear Link
- This new Star Wars Virtual Reality experiment looks beautiful and insane Link
その他の話題
- Xiaomi is expanding their smart transport empire with bicycles Link
- Why Apple and Samsung have already lost the mobile payments war in China Link
- FINTECH BRIEFING: UK regulator on robo-advisors — Regtech firm launches in Germany — TransferWise in South Korea Link
- Here’s what ads in Facebook Messenger could look like (FB) Link
- Lyft drivers who don’t have a car can rent one from GM — and it’s free if they drive enough Link
- How to hack a sex toy: Tech companies warn public on growing cyber-risks Link
- Instagram interaction rates dropped 40% last year, and other bad news Link
- Instagram is completely changing the way its app works and making it more like Facebook (FB) Link
- Uber’s food delivery service opens in San Francisco, Chicago, and Houston Link
- Medium is betting big on curation with its new ‘Collections’ feature Link
