Emma Betuel / TechCrunch:
Activ Surgical, which makes hardware-agnostic software for minimally invasive surgical systems, raises $45M Series B led by Cota Capital  —  Activ Surgical, a Boston-based digital surgery company, announced a…

The Economic Times:
CredAvenue, an online marketplace for companies seeking loans, financial institutions, and investors, raises $90M Series A, India’s largest ever, led by Sequoia  —  CredAvenue has raised $90 million in a Series A f…

Emma Court / Bloomberg:
TrialSpark, which wants to leverage its clinical trials management software into drug discovery, closed $156M Series C at a $1B+ valuation earlier this year  —  – TrialSpark expands from clinical trials into d…

In addition to all the updates for its operating systems, Apple also introduced SF Symbols 3 beta at WWDC 2021 in June. The new version of SF Symbols, which includes more than 600 new icons, is now available to the public as an official release.more…Th…

Dalvin Brown / Washington Post:
MiamiCoin, a crypto partnership with CityCoins unveiled in August that automatically allocates 30% of newly minted coins to Miami, has made $7.1M for the city  —  The South Florida city is the first mun…

Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
A look at the rise of employee dissent at Apple, including pushback against returning to the office, fighting for pay equity, and increasing leaks  —  On June 14th, 2021, Apple’s remote work advocacy group se…

Apple Watch Series 7 was announced at Apple’s September special event along with the iPhone 13 lineup and the new iPad models. However, unlike its siblings, Apple Watch Series 7 is not available to customers – and there’s no word from Apple on when it …

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Zoom says it no longer plans to acquire cloud-based call center software maker Five9, following the FCC’s review of the $14.7B deal on national security grounds  —  – Zoom’s attempted acquisition of cloud contact …

Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Retailer Neiman Marcus says it notified 4.6M customers that their personal info, including credit card numbers, may have been exposed in a May 2020 data breach  —  The retailer told 4.6 million customers their p…

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
LinkedIn blocks the profiles of several US journalists on its Chinese platform, citing “prohibited content” without specifying what it was  —  LinkedIn blocked the profiles of several U.S….