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BET Networks CEO Debra Lee Joins Twitter Board

Twitter has appointed Debra L. Lee, chairman and CEO of BET Networks, a media and entertainment subsidiary of Viacom, to serve as a board member of the...

LivingSocial Hires Best Buy CMO

Barry Judge has been appointed CMO for LivingSocial. Formerly, Mr. Judge served as executive vice president, and global chief marketing officer for Best Buy. At...

MIT To Host Intel’s Big Data ISTC

MIT has won a national search to become the newest Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Big Data, which will be hosted by...

Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association appoints Jeff Farrah executive director

The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association (AVIA) has appointed Jeff Farrah as the organization’s inaugural executive director.

Satish Gattadahalli joins Grant Thornton as Public Sector practice director

Satish Gattadahalli has joined Grant Thornton as a director in its Public Sector practice. Based in the firm’s Alexandria office, Mr. Gattadahalli will help...

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Tembo raises $14M

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Tembo, a Postgres managed service provider, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round.
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Raspberry Pi is now a public company — TC

Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million at today’s exchange rate, writes Romain Dillet. 
Fundings

AlphaSense raises $650M

AlphaSense, a market intelligence and search platform, has raised $650 million in funding, co-led by Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners.
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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI — VentureBeat

Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z), Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, writes Shubham Sharma. 
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Capgemini partners with DARPA to explore quantum computing for carbon capture

Capgemini Government Solutions has launched a new initiative with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to investigate quantum computing's potential in carbon capture.