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Reddit confidentially files its S-1 with the SEC for an IPO; the number of shares to be offered and the price range have yet to be determined — Reddit, Inc. today announced that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Reddit, home to 100K+ active communities visited by 50M+ people every day, has raised $1B+ over its lifetime and was most recently valued at $10B+ in August — Reddit announced on Wednesday that it had confidentially filed paperwork for an eventual public offering of its stock … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Apple delays its return to corporate offices to a “date yet to be determined”, after previously setting a February 1 return date — - Company had planned to bring corporate workers back by Feb. 1 — Delay comes in response to rising Covid-19 cases, new variant
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple closes three retail stores in Miami, Annapolis, and Ottawa, Canada after a rise in employee COVID-19 cases and exposures — - Company is closing locations in Miami, Maryland and Ottawa — Cases and exposure among Apple's employees spurred the move
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| Project Zero: |
A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit, captured in the wild by Citizen Lab and one of the most sophisticated Google's Project Zero has seen — We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit with us, and Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Katie Haun is leaving Andreessen Horowitz to start a new firm focusing on crypto and Web3 startups; Haun's deals at a16z included OpenSea and Coinbase — Katie Haun, one of the world's most influential crypto venture capitalists, is leaving Andreessen Horowitz to form her own firm.
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| Henry Mance / Financial Times: |
Interview with Nick Clegg, Meta's VP of global affairs, on moving from politics to Meta, the impact of Haugen's leaks, and the decision to ban Trump — Nick Clegg may be available in Berlin. He has a slot in Paris. He'll make time for lunch in Brussels.
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| Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review: |
Meta says a woman was groped on its Horizon Worlds platform on November 26; an internal review says she should have used its “Safe Zone” tool — Last week, Meta (the umbrella company formerly known as Facebook) opened up access to its virtual-reality social media platform, Horizon Worlds.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Indian edtech company Byju's is in advanced talks to go public via SPAC on the NYSE, raising around $4B and valuing it at about $48B — - Education startup is discussing deal with Churchill Capital — SPAC merger could value Byju's at more than $40 billion
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's in-house incubator Area 120 launches Qaya, which helps US creators set up online storefronts to sell products and services directly to customers — A team at Google is today launching a new service called Qaya, which will allow creators to easily set up new web storefronts …
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| Lucy Harley-Mckeown / The Block: |
Dutch startup Silverflow, which claims to be the first cloud-native card payments service, raises a $17M Series A led by Coatue — Quick Take — Dutch payment tech company Silverflow has closed a $17 million Series A round, led by Coatue Management. — The round was joined …
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Amazon says it will reduce its Alexa skills commission from 30% to 20% for developers who earn less than $1M per year, starting in Q2 2022 — Amazon is joining other tech giants by lowering its cut of developer revenue generated by voice apps, known as Alexa skills, which run on Amazon's smart speakers and other Alexa-powered devices.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is testing TikTok Live Studio, a Windows app that lets users stream directly to TikTok Live from their computer — What if instead of watching your favorite TikTok star stream on Twitch, you could watch them play video games live on TikTok? For the last few days, according to the platform …
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Brazilian e-commerce startup Olist, which connects small sellers to large marketplaces, raises $186M Series E at a $1.5B valuation, after $80M Series D in April — Olist, a Brazilian e-commerce marketplace integrator, confirmed it is now valued at $1.5 billion after securing $186 million …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Dialpad, an enterprise voice, video, and contact-center service, raises $170M led by Iconiq at a $2.2B valuation, up from $1.2B last year — Cloud communications platform Dialpad has raised $170 million in a round of funding led by Iconiq Capital, valuing the company at $2.2 billion — roughly double its valuation on last year.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cockroach Labs, which makes the SQL database CockroachDB, raises a $278M Series F at a $5B valuation, after raising $160M at a $2B valuation in January — Cockroach Labs, makers of CockroachDB, has been raking in money this year. It started the year with a $160 million Series E …
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| Willem Marx / Bloomberg: |
Malta's status as Europe's online gambling capital is under threat after it was added to the global money laundering watchdog FATF's “gray list” in June — One spring night in 2007, Joseph Borg and several colleagues from Malta's tiny gaming commission stayed late at their office to listen to the news from London.
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Wagers.com Earnings+More. Tweets: @bw, @mcaruanagalizia, @bradleyhope, @bloomberguk, @mattcampbell, and @fairandopen
| Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: |
North Carolina-based CData, which aggregates data from 200+ sources for businesses, raises a $140M Series B from Updata, bringing its total funding to $160M — CData Software Inc., a seven-year-old firm that specializes in connecting data from multiple sources, today announced a new $140 million funding round.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Weight care management app Found raises a $100M Series B led by WestCap at a $600M valuation — Just two and a half months after emerging from stealth, weight care management startup Found announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $600 million.
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Recycling service Rubicon, which uses data to match waste with disposal sites, will go public via SPAC at a ~$2B valuation; Rubicon works with Apple and others — Investors in software company include actor Leonardo DiCaprio, KKR co-founder Henry Kravis and billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: the EU is set to approve Meta's acquisition of Kustomer after assurances rivals will still be able to work with Kustomer — Facebook is set to gain EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of Kustomer after offering remedies that allow rival products to function … | Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: |
Rokt, which helps e-commerce companies make personalized marketing offers, raises a $325M Series E at a $1.95B valuation led by Tiger Global ahead of an IPO — The e-commerce marketing technology company said the funding round, led by Tiger Global Management, values the company at $1.95 billionSponsor Posts
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