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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
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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 1 Security for $162M in cash and stock;…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 24, 2022
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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
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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 merchandise volume of $20.7B, down 10% YoY,…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 24, 2022
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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
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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 and Meta's Quest, and witnessed gro…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 24, 2022
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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
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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 a dozen accounts posting about Russian m…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 24, 2022
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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
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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 the posts linking to 184 articles from t…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 24, 2022
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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
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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 select streamers a guaranteed monthly mini…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 24, 2022
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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
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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 helps businesses monitor and patch vulnera…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 23, 2022
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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
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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 online property management tools for apar…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 23, 2022
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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
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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 used their combined 900K+ users to post …

MUSAFIRCAFE February 23, 2022
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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
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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, Shopify should build an advertising business …

MUSAFIRCAFE February 23, 2022
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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
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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 preconfigured financial service APIs, raises…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 23, 2022
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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
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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 that connects students looking for a si…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 23, 2022
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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
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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, the Terra's blockchain native token…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 23, 2022
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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
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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 raises a $40M Series A led by V8 Capita…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 22, 2022
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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
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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 grant copyright to a work of art created b…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 22, 2022
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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
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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 nations, has been offline for over a mon…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 22, 2022
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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
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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 operates data center infrastructure acro…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 22, 2022
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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
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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 Group raises a $200M Series B+ at a $3B valu…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 22, 2022
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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
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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 accounts online will not be subjected t…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 22, 2022
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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
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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 ethnic killings in Ethiopia, accusing Me…

MUSAFIRCAFE February 22, 2022
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