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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US infrastructure bill amends tax code section 6050I to require certain recipients of digital assets worth $10K+ to report sender details to the 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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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How a scarcity of secondhand chip manufacturing machines, which use older fabrication techniques, has exacerbated the global chip shortage — The world is hungry for semiconductors, and not all of them need to be made with cutting-edge technology. The race is on to find older machines that can still crank out chips.
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| Madeleine Morley / New York Times: |
A look at digital pets site Neopets, which had 25M users in the mid-2000s, as owner JumpStart Games says 30%-40% of former users returned since March 2020 — CHOOSE THEME:tilleri833jhdh — alli_draggy, by El MetlerBlack7Pearl, by El MetlerBunnyCutie2004, by Steph SkrotDisgrace … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DeFi platform bZx says a hacker stole an estimated $55M worth of cryptocurrency assets after spear-phishing one of its employees and swiping two private keys — A hacker has stolen an estimated $55 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from bZx, a decentralized finance (DeFi) …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
FOIA records show US Treasury bought location and other app data from controversial company Babel Street in recent months to hunt for tax and sanctions dodgers — The Treasury Department has in recent months expanded its digital surveillance powers, contracts provided to The Intercept reveal … | 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.| 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 … | PYMNTS.com: |
Abound, an online wholesale marketplace connecting retailers and brands, raises a $36.7M Series B led by D. E. Shaw, bringing its total funding 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 from PointState Capital … | 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 …
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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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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 … Sponsor Posts
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Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
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