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Shareholders approve Bird-SPAC merger, stock promptly falls

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first spotted the vote news ; Bird is based in the Los Angeles metropolitan agglomeration. For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Shares of the SPAC were off as far as 20% before recovering. News broke in May that Bird was looking at a SPAC-led debut on the public markets.

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EdgeQ raises $51 million to fuse AI compute and 5G within a single chip

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One way to get all these technologies into single devices is just to agglomerate a bunch of off-the-shelf silicon chips and jam them into a product. million Series A round led by Mohammad Islam of Threshold Ventures (formerly known as DFJ). AME Cloud Ventures also participated in the round, as did an undisclosed strategic customer.