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Cloudflare acquires email protection startup Area 1 Security for $162M in cash and stock; Cloudflare's stock is down 55%+ from its November 2021 all-time high (Joe Williams/Bloomberg) TECH REVIEW
Joe Williams / Bloomberg : Cloudflare acquires email protection startup Area…
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eBay reports Q4 revenue of $2.6B, up 5% YoY, gross merchandise volume of $20.7B, down 10% YoY, 147M annual global active buyers, down 9%; stock down 5%+ (Annie Palmer/CNBC) TECH REVIEW
Annie Palmer / CNBC : eBay reports Q4 revenue of $2.6B, up 5% YoY, gross mer…
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Researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl joined VRChat, an app on Steam and Meta's Quest, and witnessed grooming, sexual material, a rape threat, racist insults (BBC) TECH REVIEW
BBC : Researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl joined VRChat, an app on Steam…
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Twitter says it mistakenly suspended around a dozen accounts posting about Russian military movements near the Ukrainian border, and reinstates some accounts (Elizabeth Culliford/Reuters) TECH REVIEW
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters : Twitter says it mistakenly suspended around …
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A study finds Facebook failed to label over half of the posts linking to 184 articles from the top 10 publishers of climate change denial since May 2021 (Rachel Treisman/NPR) TECH REVIEW
Rachel Treisman / NPR : A study finds Facebook failed to label over half of …
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Twitch launches the Ad Incentive Program to pay select streamers a guaranteed monthly minimum ad revenue based on amount of ads run per hour and hours streamed (Ash Parrish/The Verge) TECH REVIEW
Ash Parrish / The Verge : Twitch launches the Ad Incentive Program to pay se…
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Nashville-based Phosphorus Cybersecurity, which helps businesses monitor and patch vulnerable IoT devices, raises a $38M Series A (Tim Keary/VentureBeat) TECH REVIEW
Tim Keary / VentureBeat : Nashville-based Phosphorus Cybersecurity, which he…
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Funnel, which offers CRM software and online property management tools for apartment operators, raises a $36.5M Series B led by RET Ventures (Philip Russo/Commercial Observer) TECH REVIEW
Philip Russo / Commercial Observer : Funnel, which offers CRM software and o…
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Amazon sues AppSally and Rebatest, alleging the sites used their combined 900K+ users to post fake Amazon reviews to boost third-party sellers' product rankings (Annie Palmer/CNBC) TECH REVIEW
Annie Palmer / CNBC : Amazon sues AppSally and Rebatest, alleging the sites …
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With Meta handicapped by Apple's ATT, Shopify should build an advertising business to complement Shop Pay and the Shopify Fulfillment Network (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) TECH REVIEW
Ben Thompson / Stratechery : With Meta handicapped by Apple's ATT, Shopi…
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London-based fintech Weavr, which offers online businesses preconfigured financial service APIs, raises a $40M Series A led by Tiger Global (PYMNTS.com) TECH REVIEW
PYMNTS.com : London-based fintech Weavr, which offers online businesses prec…
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Berlin-based Zenjob, which offers a marketplace that connects students looking for a side job with over 2,500 companies, raises a $50M Series D led by Aragon (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Berlin-based Zenjob, which offers a marketplace…
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Luna Foundation Guard raises $1B in a sale of LUNA, the Terra's blockchain native token, to form a BTC-denominated forex reserve for Terra's UST stablecoin (Ryan Weeks/The Block) TECH REVIEW
Ryan Weeks / The Block : Luna Foundation Guard raises $1B in a sale of LUNA,…
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Nairobi-based retail B2B marketplace MarketForce raises a $40M Series A led by V8 Capital Partners, bringing its total funding to $42.5M (Annie Njanja/TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
Annie Njanja / TechCrunch : Nairobi-based retail B2B marketplace MarketForce…
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The US Copyright Office rejected a request to grant copyright to a work of art created by an AI, as the image didn't include an element of "human authorship" (Adi Robertson/The Verge) TECH REVIEW
Adi Robertson / The Verge : The US Copyright Office rejected a request to gr…
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DCash, an e-currency used by seven Eastern Caribbean nations, has been offline for over a month, revealing technical issues governments face with e-currencies (Jim Wyss/Bloomberg) TECH REVIEW
Jim Wyss / Bloomberg : DCash, an e-currency used by seven Eastern Caribbean …
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Princeton Digital, which invests in, develops, and operates data center infrastructure across Asia, raises $500M+ led by Mubadala that could value it at $2B+ (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg) TECH REVIEW
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg : Princeton Digital, which invests in, develops, and …
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Singapore-based crypto trading platform Amber Group raises a $200M Series B+ at a $3B valuation led by Temasek, with Sequoia China and others participating (Alfred Cang/Bloomberg) TECH REVIEW
Alfred Cang / Bloomberg : Singapore-based crypto trading platform Amber Grou…
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IRS says taxpayers wanting to access their accounts online will not be subjected to facial recognition if they choose to ID themselves in "a virtual interview" (Alan Rappeport/New York Times) TECH REVIEW
Alan Rappeport / New York Times : IRS says taxpayers wanting to access their…
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An investigation shows how vigilantes use Facebook to incite ethnic killings in Ethiopia, accusing Meta of inaction on hate speech and misinformation (The Guardian) TECH REVIEW
The Guardian : An investigation shows how vigilantes use Facebook to incite …
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The first phase of the James Webb Space Telescope's months-long process of …
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Philippines-based PayMongo, which enables merchants to accept digital payments, raises a $31M Series B, following a $12M Series A in 2020 led by Stripe (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch : Philippines-based PayMongo, which enables merch…
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Check, which provides payroll digitization software, raises a $75M Series C led by Stripe, bringing its total funding to $119M and valuing the startup at $725M (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) TECH REVIEW
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : Check, which provides payroll digitization soft…
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PrimaryBid, which helps companies include ordinary retail investors in IPOs and follow-on fundraises, raises a $190M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : PrimaryBid, which helps companies include ordin…
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Tropic, which helps enterprises buy and manage software as well as to identify cost savings on purchases, raises a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners (Christine Hall/TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
Christine Hall / TechCrunch : Tropic, which helps enterprises buy and manage…
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Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the company's strategy after its failed Arm bid, Omniverse's progress, and its bet on self-driving cars (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) TECH REVIEW
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the…
