iTWire Monday, 24 May 2021 16:56 mx51 adds $25 million to coffers with capital raise Featured Victor Zheng, CEO mx51
Payments technology company mx51 has raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Acorn Capital, Artesian, Commencer Capital and Mastercard.
The funds represent
mx51’s first major round of investment, secured less than 12 months after the company spun out of Assembly Payments in May 2020.
The business is led and founded by former Westpac executive and former Assembly Payments co-CEO Victor Zheng.
mx5 says the round will allow it to rapidly expand in Australia and build out further functionality to compete with other payment platforms.
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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Newly released field testing done by Sony Electronics Inc. demonstrates the real-world advantages of robust next-generation TV broadcasting now being rolled out across the USA. The first substantial upgrade in local station broadcasting in more than two decades, named ATSC 3.0 or NEXTGEN TV, allows a TV station to custom tailor their broadcast to simultaneously reach different types of viewers on a variety of devices – including those in moving vehicles. And while robust passenger infotainment is one potential benefit, another more substantial opportunity exists for local TV stations to easily transmit software updates and information to fleets of future cars and trucks.
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The history of San Francisco’s Lake Merced from 1830-1870.
San Francisco s Lake Merced: Rancho Days
by Woody LaBounty
(Published in Outside Lands magazine with support from the Schwemm Family Foundation.)
Since the 1850s, Lake Merced and the land around it have been the site of roadhouses, a famous duel, truck farms, and large scale city within a city housing developments. Located in the southwestern corner of the City and County of San Francisco, the lake has been used as a source for the city s water supply and for recreational activities from skeet shooting to golf to dragon boat racing. Despite encroaching urbanization, watershed changes, fragmentation, and aquifer reduction during the twentieth century, the lake remains a unique habitat supporting riparian, dune scrub, and woodland forest natural communities. Read part one.