Techmeme: Neuro-ID, whose real-time behavioral analytics tool helps companies reduce fraud and customer friction, raises a $35M Series B led by Canapi Ventures (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

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Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:

Infrastructure bill has an amendment to tax code section 6050I that requires some recipients of digital assets worth $10K+ to report sender's details to IRS — The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill that contains a controversial cryptocurrency tax reporting requirement.

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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:

House passes $1T+ bipartisan infrastructure bill, with a controversial crypto tax provision and $65B in broadband funding; Biden could sign the bill within days — - The House passed a more than $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature.

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Antoine Gara / Financial Times:

Sources: McAfee is in advanced talks to go private in a deal worth over $14B, including $4B in debt, led by private equity firm Advent International — Buyout would be one of largest this year and mark end of company's brief stint on public markets — Antivirus software company McAfee …

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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:

FOI request reveals US Treasury acquired data feeds enabling government use of sensitive data from smartphone apps not subject to due process restrictions — The Treasury Department has in recent months expanded its digital surveillance powers, contracts provided to The Intercept reveal …

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Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:

Bitcoin Cash briefly spiked 4.6% on Friday after a fake PR Newswire press release, which also appeared on Kroger.com, claimed Kroger will begin accepting it — The cryptocurrency rose over 4.6% from $602.63 at around 11:30 UTC to $630.70 in less than 15 minutes after the publication of a fraudulent announcement.

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PYMNTS.com:

Abound, an online wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers and brands, raises a $36.7M Series B led by D. E. Shaw, bringing total raised to $59.6M — Wholesale marketplace Abound raised $36.7 million in a Series B funding round led by D. E. Shaw group, with additional support …

Source: PR Newswire. More: AlleyWatch

Christine Hall / TechCrunch:

Neuro-ID, whose real-time behavioral analytics tool helps companies reduce fraud and customer friction, raises a $35M Series B led by Canapi Ventures — Much of our days are built around digital experiences, and companies are increasingly looking for ways to unlock conversion and optimize fraud screening.

More: Business Wire and PYMNTS.com

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Report: Apple and TSMC plan to produce 3nm chips for Macs as soon as 2023, with as many as four dies and up to 40 CPU cores per chip — Apple is taking the PC world by storm with its first debut of Apple Silicon chips inside of Macs, taking what it learned from developing the iPhone and iPad …

Source: The Information. More: AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Ubergizmo, BGR, PhoneArena, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Tom's Hardware, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, Macworld, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Slashdot, MacDailyNews, and iClarified

Tweets: @carniphage, @tedjgould, @brianroemmele, @vadimyuryev, @waynema, and @markdistef

Harrison Weber / dot.LA:

Bird closes its first day on the NYSE flat at $8.40 per share, after going public via a SPAC merger which valued it at ~$2.3B — Bird, the Santa Monica-based firm that makes and rents electric scooters, ended its first full day as a publicly traded company with its stock price up by a fraction of a percent at $8.40 per share.

More: Yahoo Finance

FinSMEs:

Gather, which builds metaverse-like environments for offices, events, and conferences, raises a $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures — Gather, a US provider of a metaverse platform, raised $50M in Series B funding. — The round was led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures …

Source: Gather. More: Fast Company

Tweets: @flippnflops, @jowyang, and @joshelman

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