Defies

When Celonis, an 11-year-old German process mining company, announced a $1 billion raise in August on a $13.2 billion post-money valuation, it was a bit of a shock. After all, VC firms were pulling back from the huge raises and gaudy valuations of yesteryear. But Celonis — which has raised $2.4 billion, per Crunchbase, with $2 billion coming in the last year alone — has been able to defy the current thinking in startup circles by taking on huge chunks of capital. Consider that its valuation has…

via Netflix At this stage, Netflix’s ongoing assault of original movies have become about as bulletproof as it gets, with almost every single one of them performing admirably on the rankings in spite of overwhelming critical apathy. The misses may outnumber the hits, then, but Luckiest Girl Alive is proving once more that it doesn’t mean a damn thing when it comes to convincing subscribers to push play. As per FlixPatrol, the literary adaptation has instantly reached the Top 10 in 79 countries since premiering…

The pandemic shook commercial real estate markets to the core, creating more demand in some areas, like industrial, and destroying it in others, like office space. But 30 months after the first lockdown orders came out, not all of the dire predictions have played out. Take the rebound in demand for retail space, which is in far shorter supply than anyone expected after consumers shifted more of their buying, even for groceries, online. Even though renters fled densely-packed areas during the outbreak, developers continued…

The market has been bearish today, which has been the case for the past few days of this week. One of the things that have come out clearly is that some of the coins have been resistant to the crash, while others posted a huge slip. Bitgert (BRISE) tops among the coins that have done so well in the market. Bitgert has defied the crashing forces, while large coins like Ethereum and Ripple have been hard hit. Bitgert posted one of the most stable prices in a crashing market. The Bitgert coin posted a minimal decline…

An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough check-up since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechPhysics connects seismic data to properties of rocks and sediments.A new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has uncovered a couple of big surprises.The first surprise: the top 300 meters (1000 feet) of the subsurface beneath…

via Paramount The debate rages as to when exactly Tom Cruise decided to give up being an actor in favor of permanently becoming Tom Cruise, but the December 2011 release of Brad Bird’s jaw-dropping Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is definitely worthy of consideration. Sure, the longtime A-lister always had a penchant for doing his own stunts, but his daredevil scaling of the world’s tallest building literally took his death-defying antics to new heights, to the extent that it makes complete sense Cruise…

One of the worst times for cryptocurrencies has been the first half of 2022. Since the start of 2022, major tokens like Bitcoin and Ethereum have decreased by 40% to 50%. The cryptocurrency markets have decreased by more than 50% overall so far this year (YTD). A bear market typically occurs when financial assets lose more than 20% of their value from prior all-time highs. Cryptocurrency has been in a bear market according to this classification since early April 2022. Many people are speculating about when…