Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Dublin-based Xocean, which provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels, raised €115M, taking its total to ~$189M  —  Xocean, an Irish marine robotics startup that provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Google and Microsoft donate $1M to Trump’s inauguration; Google says the donation, a YouTube livestream, and a homepage event link align with past inaugurations  —  Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, becoming the latest major tech company to try … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US judge rules that Google must face a class action claiming Google collected users’ personal data from their phones after switching off Web & App Activity  —  Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people’s cellphones … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Dublin-based Xocean, which provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels, raised €115M, taking its total to ~$189M  —  Xocean, an Irish marine robotics startup that provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Scheer / Reuters: Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz names veteran exec Fazal Merchant as president and CFO to prepare for a US IPO; sources: Wiz has annual revenues of ~$500M  —  Israeli startup Wiz said on Thursday it had named veteran executive Fazal Merchant as president and chief financial officer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat / Reuters: Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty says it made a formal bid to ByteDance to buy TikTok’s US assets and keep the app alive without its current algorithm  —  Entrepreneur and former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty and its consortium of partners in The People’s Bid … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Totilo / Game File: December court filing: Activision revealed that Call of Duty: Black Ops III cost $450M+ to make, Modern Warfare cost $640M+, and Black Ops Cold War cost $700M+  —  The biggest development budgets ever disclosed by a game company, buried in a court filing (but found by Game File), along with updated sales figures. Lees verder op Tech Meme