Monthly Archives: September 2022

Meta starts testing Community Chats for Facebook Groups in Messenger

Today Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is starting to test Community Chats for Facebook Groups inside Messenger, and those words definitely sound rather confusing, so let’s unpack what we’re talking about here. It’s probably easiest to think of Community Chats as Meta’s own interpretation of Discord. These will be available for Facebook Groups, and you…

Lei Jun steps down as a chairman from another Xiaomi subsidiary

Lei Jun, the co-founder and CEO of Xiaomi Technology has vacated a chairman position in a subsidiary company, according to Chinese platforms that keep track of such changes. He will step down from Xiaomi Electronic Software Company, a division within Airstar Digital Technology, which is an affiliated company that takes care of the consumer finance…

HICX raises $30M to give companies visibility into their supply chain

HICX, a supplier experience management platform designed to give companies visibility into their supply chain, has raised $30 million in a round of funding led by U.S. private equity firm Wavecrest Growth Partners and Canada’s Espresso Capital. The funding constituted a mixture of $22 million equity and $8 million in debt. Founded in 2004, London-based HICX…

‘The Woman King’ review: Viola Davis leads a groundbreaking and glorious action epic

Before there was Wonder Woman‘s Amazons or Black Panther’s Dora Milaje, there was the Agojie. Far from fantasy, these female warriors were a real-life West African regiment that defended the kingdom of Dahomey for centuries against warring neighbors and foreign slavers. With The Woman King, director Gina Prince-Bythewood brings a slice of their legacy to…