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YouTube trials Premium Lite subscription for €6.99/month, offering ad-free viewing across all major platforms, currently available in Europe — Currently being piloted in parts of Europe — Google is piloting a more affordable premium subscription tier for YouTube …
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| Reuters: |
Square says it's buying Australia-based buy now, pay later service Afterpay for $29B in an all-stock deal, paying a 30% premium on Afterpay's last closing — U.S. fintech company Square Inc (SQ.N) said on Monday it had agreed to purchase Australian buy now/pay later giant Afterpay Ltd …
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| Greg Ahlstrand / CoinDesk: |
Square reports Q2 revenue of $4.88B, up 143% YoY; Cash App's bitcoin yearly revenue was $2.72B, up 200%, as Square's bitcoin holdings had a $45M impairment loss — Cash App's bitcoin gross profit rose to $55 million, Square said in its Q2 letter to shareholders.
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Female journalists and activists share how they were targeted and harassed by authoritarian regimes through hack-and-leak attacks using the Pegasus spyware — Ghada Oueiss, a Lebanese broadcast journalist at Al-Jazeera, was eating dinner at home with her husband last June when she received …
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
A now-deleted tweet by an Intel executive suggests Thunderbolt 5 could double the bandwidth of existing Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 connections to 80 Gbps — An executive visiting various research divisions across the globe isn't necessarily new, but with a focus on social media driving named individuals …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Zoom agrees to pay $85M and bolster its security practices to settle a class action lawsuit over alleged user privacy violations and Zoombombing — Zoom Video Communications Inc (ZM.O) agreed to pay $85 million and bolster its security practices to settle a lawsuit claiming …
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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Non-VC funds invested in a record 42% of tech startup funding deals in Q2 2021; H1 '21 US startup funding was $150B, with FY 2021 on pace to double 2020's total — Hedge, mutual and pension funds are investing heavily, leading to higher valuations and more leverage for company founders
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Filings: Larry Page and Sergey Brin have sold a combined $1B+ in Google stock since May 2021, the most since 2017; Google's share price has since tripled — - Google founders and majority stakeholders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have sold more than $1 billion worth of stock combined since May.| The Economic Times: |
Fashinza, a B2B marketplace for apparel manufacturing, raises $20M Series A from Accel, Elevation Capital, and others — B2B manufacturing marketplace Fashinza on Monday said it has raised $20 million (about Rs 148.6 crore) in funding from investors, including Accel Partners, Elevation Capital and actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based online learning startup Unacademy raises $440M led by Temasek at a $3.44B valuation — Unacademy has raised $440 million in a new financing round as the Indian online learning startup looks to expand into multiple additional categories. — Temasek led the Bangalore-based startup's …
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The Economic Times, Moneycontrol, KrASIA, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, Entrackr, Business Standard, and Keeping Up With India
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| Emmanuel Akinwotu / The Guardian: |
Analysis: Nigeria is second only to the US in bitcoin trading volume, hitting $2.4B in May from $684M in Dec. 2020, as the government tries to curb its use — As leaders around the world grapple with cryptocurrencies, what happened when the African country tried to ban them?| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Estonian ride hailing startup Bolt, formerly known as Taxify, raises $713M at a ~$4.75B valuation, led by Sequoia, Tekne, and Ghisallo — - Estonian ride-hailing start-up Bolt has raised $713 million in fresh funding to push into the rapidly-growing online grocery delivery industry.
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