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February 23, 2022, 1:15 AM
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Truth Social, like Parler and Gettr, looks to be structured for mostly one-way communication, broadcast primarily to an audience of Trumpist dead-enders  —  Conservative alternative social networks keep making the same mistakes  —  I.  —  Today, let's talk about some of the less obvious ways …
Ilena Peng / Bloomberg:
A profile of RightForge, a web hosting service underpinning Trump's Truth Social and nearly 1,000 other sites, that serves those who feel “censored”
The Verge:
Sony reveals the PlayStation VR2's design: lighter, with a lens adjustment dial, new vent layout, and similar white-and-black color scheme  —  This is the PlayStation VR2  —  Sony has finally revealed the design of its next-generation PlayStation VR2 headset, after it announced it in February 2021 …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
With Meta handicapped by Apple's ATT privacy changes, Shopify should build an advertising business to complement Shop Pay and the Shopify Fulfillment Network  —  Tobi Lütke, who famously started Shopify when he realized that the software he built to run his snowboard shop …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta rolls out Facebook Reels to over 150 countries, following the feature's US launch in September 2021, alongside new creative tools and ad formats  —  After publicly launching in the U.S. this past September, Facebook Reels today is becoming globally available in over 150 countries.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
A look at nine Android spyware apps, installed on ~400K phones, which connect to servers controlled by Vietnam-based 1Byte and share a critical security flaw  —  A fleet of spyware apps share the same security flaw  —  Much of the spyware you hear of today are the powerful nation-state backed exploits …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Alloy Automation, a no-code service for e-commerce companies to automate workflows across multiple applications, raises a $20M Series A led by a16z  —  Alloy Automation, a Y Combinator graduate focused on connecting different e-commerce tools, announced this morning that it has closed a $20 million Series A led by a16z.
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Spotify says Car Thing is now on sale in the US for $90, after its April 2021 announcement; in a few weeks, a software update will add Audible support and more  —  Two million raced onto a waitlist for Spotify's first hardware.  Now that it's on sale, Spotify's real road test must prove Car Thing's more than a goofy name.
FinSMEs:
New York-based Timescale, which develops the open-source TimescaleDB time series database, raises a $110M Series C at a $1B+ valuation led by Tiger Global  —  Timescale, a New York-based creator of TimescaleDB, a relational database for time-series, raised $110M in Series C funding at a valuation of over $1 billion.

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for CBS News as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A US judge denies WBD's bid to block Sling TV from selling short-term offerings that let users sign up for access to its bundles for as little as one day

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Ryan Weeks / The Block:
Luna Foundation Guard raises $1B in a sale of LUNA, the native token of Terra's blockchain, to form a BTC-denominated forex reserve for Terra's UST stablecoin

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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Hasura, which helps developers access databases using its open-source GraphQL API, raises a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Greenoaks
Laura Shin / Forbes:
An investigation suggests that Austrian programmer Toby Hoenisch was likely behind The DAO's 2016 hack that diverted 3.64M ETH, now worth $11B
Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal:
SoFi plans to acquire Technisys, which makes tools for banks, in a ~$1.1B all-stock deal; after going public via a SPAC, SoFi's stock is down 28% in 2022
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