All posts tagged: 200m

Singapore’s Shanti Pereira finishes eighth in Commonwealth Games 200m final

Singapore’s Shanti Pereira finishes eighth in Commonwealth Games 200m final

Published by Sam Flores

SINGAPORE: Shanti Pereira finished eighth in her maiden Commonwealth Games 200m final on Friday (Jul 31). At the Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow, the Singaporean sprinter clocked a time of 23.21s. British Virgin Islands’ Adaejah Hodge won gold with a time of 22.07s, Trinidad and Tobago’s Shaniqua Bascombe took silver (22.35s) and Alana Reid of Jamaica clinched bronze (22.56s). On Thursday, the 29-year-old made history by becoming the first Singaporean to qualify for an individual sprint final at the Games. She timed a season-best of 22.81s in the semi-finals, qualifying eighth overall. Pereira’s national record in the 200m is 22.57s, set at the World Championships in 2023. She is the reigning Asian Games champion in the event. Earlier this week, Pereira qualified for the 100m semi-finals at the Glasgow Games with a time of 11.24s, her fastest of the season in that event. She was just 0.04 seconds off her national mark of 11.20s, set at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships. At the last Commonwealth Games in 2022, Pereira lowered both the national 100m and 200m …

Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about 0M

Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M

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Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents and other machine identities will grow as enterprises deploy autonomous software across their operations. The identity management company did not disclose the terms of the transaction. But TechCrunch has learned that the acquisition is valued at just under $200 million and is structured as an almost all-cash deal, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. A spokesperson for Okta did not dispute the figure when asked by TechCrunch, but would not comment on specifics of the deal terms. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of its fiscal 2027, Okta said, subject to customary closing conditions. Okta’s move to buy Permiso comes as identity management companies seek to expand beyond verifying users at login to continuously monitoring what users, applications, and AI agents do once gaining authorized access to a network environment. That shift has intensified competition to secure machine identities as enterprises embed AI deeper into everyday operations. Permiso, which …

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs 0M from Insight

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

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Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded by two former Defense Department engineers in 2017 — five years before ChatGPT’s public launch — was prescient. The startup’s tech helps enterprises distinguish legitimate human users from increasingly well-hidden bot traffic to help identify fake users and threats. “As sophisticated criminal VPNs, residential proxy networks, and anonymization infrastructure proliferate, organizations are increasingly operating with a critical blind spot: they can see the activity, but not the infrastructure behind it,” Insight’s Thomas Krane said in a written statement. Detecting malicious traffic has, of course, been a hill corporate security teams have been climbing for eons. But nothing compares to the onslaught facing them today. As of mid-2026, bots are now more active on the internet than humans, Cloudflare reported last month. “Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history,” …

Lyles eases injury fears after cramp halts 200m run

Lyles eases injury fears after cramp halts 200m run

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK, July 26 : Noah Lyles gave fans a fright at the U.S. national championships on Sunday when he pulled up suffering from leg cramps down the final straight of the 200 metres final but the American later played down the issue. All appeared to be business as usual for world champion Lyles around the turn until he stopped short and grabbed his leg, drawing audible gasps from the crowd at Icahn Stadium.  But he was all smiles as he walked up to reporters after finishing last in 50.88 seconds, explaining that his left hamstring had begun to cramp. Garrett Kaalund won in 20.04. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, there’s no reason to keep pushing that’. So I just decided to cut it off. To be honest, it’s just a cramp. Just got some electrolytes here, just gonna chug them down,” said Lyles. The 100m Olympic champion clocked an eye-watering world lead to win the shorter sprint on Friday in 9.79 seconds, after a wind-aided 9.76 in the semi-final, and said he suspected the workload finally …

Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Soccer Blasts Past 0M in China

Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Soccer Blasts Past $200M in China

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stephen Chow‘s perfectly timed return to soccer comedy kept on kicking in its second weekend at China‘s box office. Kung Fu Soccer, the comedy legend’s Shaolin Soccer spinoff, added $73.7 million (RMB 501.1 million) over the July 17-19 frame, lifting its total to $214.3 million (RMB 1.46 billion) in just nine days, according to data from Artisan Gateway. In a market where second weekends routinely shed half their opening business, the film instead topped its two-day debut frame of $73.6 million (RMB 500.3 million), albeit spread across three days this time. Having crossed $147 million (RMB 1 billion) in its first week, the film has prompted ticketing giant Maoyan to raise its full-run forecast to $441 million (RMB 3 billion), up from the RMB 2.5 billion it projected on opening weekend. The film looks likely to finish just short of Chow’s personal box-office record of RMB 3.39 billion ($500 million-plus), set by the fantasy comedy The Mermaid in 2016. Chow, 64, wrote and directed Kung Fu Soccer — his first feature behind the camera since …

Amazon 0M settlement channels gambling app claims toward developers

Amazon $200M settlement channels gambling app claims toward developers

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Amazon and consumers suing the company have asked a federal judge in Washington to give preliminary approval to an unusual class action settlement that would let consumers pursue more than $201 million from app developers instead of collecting directly from Amazon. The unopposed motion, filed July 9 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, would resolve claims that Amazon violated Washington gambling law and the state’s Consumer Protection Act by processing payments for virtual casino chips sold in more than 200 social casino apps on the Amazon Appstore. Amazon denies wrongdoing and liability but is not opposing the requested procedural steps. “The proposed Settlement converts a difficult and risky litigation into a clear path to financial recovery whereby Settlement Class Members can get back the same portion of spending as in the prior developer settlements—which for Settlement Class Members with the highest spending levels results in life-changing sums.” – Steven Horn et al. vs Amazon The case began in November 2023 when plaintiff Steven Horn alleged Amazon served as the exclusive …

Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches 0M third fund

Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

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Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Indian IT services giant Infosys, will no longer serve as a general partner at Fundamentum Partnership, the venture capital firm he co-founded nearly a decade ago. Nilekani (pictured above) will be stepping down from his role as Fundamentum launches its third fund, targeting to raise about $200 million. He will be the fund’s anchor investor, and continue advising the firm and mentoring portfolio companies, his co-founder Sanjeev Aggarwal told TechCrunch. Aggarwal described the shift as “just a title thing,” saying Nilekani would continue to advise the firm, mentor portfolio company founders, and provide strategic guidance. “He is an integral part of our firm. The one thing that he enjoys the most is mentoring the teams that we back, and he will continue to do so in Fund III.” Nilekani, 71, is one of India’s best-known technology leaders. Besides co-founding Infosys, he led the creation of Aadhaar, India’s biometric identity system, and has been a leading advocate of the country’s digital public infrastructure, including the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a real-time payments …

Eli Lilly sues church leaders for alleged 0M ‘sham’ drug program

Eli Lilly sues church leaders for alleged $200M ‘sham’ drug program

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — A group of leaders in the Church of God in Christ have been accused in a lawsuit of defrauding a major pharmaceutical company out of more than $200 million in rebates for diabetes drugs. In a complaint filed Tuesday (May 19) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, lawyers for Eli Lilly and Company alleged that a cost-sharing program covering millions of members of COGIC, a Pentecostal denomination, was a “sham.” Instead of helping church members get access to Trulicity and other diabetes medications manufactured by Lilly, the program’s leaders worked with wholesalers to resell the drugs while collecting millions in rebates, the lawsuit claims. The complaint names COGIC Bishop Jerry Maynard Sr. of Nashville, along with his son and daughter, both COGIC pastors, as well as Elder Readus C. Smith III, the general secretary of health and business for the denomination, and several wholesalers. Most of the alleged fraud involved reimbursements submitted by DrugPlace, Inc., a pharmacy that shared office space with Community Health, a program run by the …

Lachy Groom to back India startup Pronto at a 0M valuation, sources say

Lachy Groom to back India startup Pronto at a $200M valuation, sources say

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Pronto, an Indian instant house-help startup, is finalizing a funding round led by tech investor Lachy Groom that would value the fast-growing company at about $200 million after investment, TechCrunch has learned. The deal is expected to bring in about $20 million in fresh capital and would mark a sharp jump from the $100 million valuation at which the company raised $25 million in a Series B round led by Epiq Capital in early March, doubling its valuation in a matter of weeks, two people familiar with the matter said. Bengaluru-based Pronto completed about 500,000 orders last month and is currently handling around 24,000–25,000 orders daily, up from about 18,000 daily bookings in March and roughly 1,000 last year. Founded in 2025, Pronto connects households with on-demand domestic help for services such as cleaning and chores, promising quick turnaround times through a managed network of workers. In March, Pronto founder Anjali Sardana told TechCrunch the startup had expanded from one city to 10 — including Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, and Mumbai — and from five to …