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Joseph Firmage Brent Crane / Bloomberg: A profile of Firmage, who founded USWeb, which went public with a $2.5B market cap in 1997, and is now being sued by “antigravity-machine” investors — Joseph Firmage helped create today’s digital economy. These…

  The race is on to build a new generation of healthcare software to replace legacy hospital systems that in some cases may not have been updated in decades. A startup out of Munich, Germany called Avelios has ambitions to…

XOi Secures Massive $230M Investment from KKR  Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: A company, whose software lets field technicians get info about the machines they need to fix, raised $230M from KKR and buys its rival Specifx for an undisclosed sum…

Meta’s Expanding Vision for Horizon Worlds: Pushing the Boundaries of the Metaverse Henry Stockdale / UploadVR: Interviews with nearly two dozen VR studios on shipping games on Quest, Meta’s increased focus on Horizon Worlds, concerns over declining game sales, and…

China’s Mini-Drama Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: China’s “mini-drama” industry grew 35% YoY to ~$6.91B in 2024, surpassing the country’s box office and forcing iQiyi and Tencent to embrace short-form dramas — – New kind of web series tell stories in…