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| Devlin Barrett / Washington Post: |
The US DOJ arrests two people in New York and seizes ~$3.6B worth of bitcoin allegedly stolen in a 2016 Bitfinex hack, its “largest financial seizure ever” — The Justice Department announced Tuesday it had seized more than $3.6 billion in bitcoin allegedly stolen as part …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
As Meta dips under a $600B market cap, it may avoid antitrust liability since it falls below the threshold set by recent US House bills as a “covered platform” — - Facebook owner Meta closed with a market cap below $600 billion on Tuesday for the first time since May 2020.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is in talks to acquire cybersecurity research and incident response company Mandiant, whose stock closed up 17.86% on Tuesday — Microsoft Corp. is considering making a bid for cybersecurity-research and incident response company Mandiant Inc., according to a person familiar …
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| Darren Loucaides / Wired: |
A deep dive into the CEO and history of Telegram, which has about 30 core employees, minimal content moderation, and, until recently, no ongoing revenue — Hundreds of millions of users. No algorithm. No ads. Courage in the face of autocracy. Sound like a dream? Careful what you wish for.
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| Bloomberg: |
As crypto tokens fall, FTX and Crypto.com will run Super Bowl ads, seeking new customers; research shows $112.9M+ has been spent on crypto TV ads since 2020 — It's a testing time for crypto exchanges to be making their Super Bowl ad debuts. — Recruiting new users can be simple when prices are skyrocketing.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Tap to Pay, letting US merchants accept payments with an iPhone and a partner-enabled app “later this year”; partners include Stripe and Shopify — Apple has officially announced a new Tap to Pay feature for iPhone. This feature, coming later this year …
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
The WWF hyped and then canceled plans to raise money for conservation with NFTs on Polygon's “eco-friendly blockchain”, a fraught claim dismissed by experts — WWF thought it picked a less polluting blockchain — Within a few days last week, the World Wildlife Fund hyped …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Twitter tells US Senator Wyden that it's “transitioning” away from using Mitto for passcodes, as the text message services firm faces surveillance accusations — Twitter Inc. told a U.S. senator it is cutting ties with a European technology company that helped it send sensitive passcodes to its users via text message.
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| Financial Times: |
A look at the effect of current and prospective regulations by EU countries on US streamers, including mandatory investments and retention of producer rights — Netflix, Disney and Amazon grapple with national investment targets and a shake-up in who owns rights| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Xpressbees, an Indian logistics startup that works with many e-commerce companies in the country, raises a $300M Series F, bringing its total funding to $575.8M — Xpressbees, an Indian logistics startup that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, has more than tripled its valuation …
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| Olivia Little / Media Matters for America: |
TikTok continues to allow ads encouraging ADHD self-diagnosis and medication, geared towards young users and likely violating its medical misinformation policy — RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM GIDEON TAAFFE, KAYLA GOGARTY & ABBIE RICHARDS — A swarm of advertisements encouraging attention …
Tweets: @lmatsakis, @benjamindictor, @olivialittle, @thomdunn, @taylortrudon, @thomdunn, @ohhkaygo, @disabledphd, and @slooterman
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple plans to improve benefits for full- and part-time US retail workers, including doubling paid sick days and increasing PTO, amid a tight labor market — Apple Inc. plans to significantly increase its benefits for U.S. retail store workers as it grapples with a tightening labor market …
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Tweets: @markgurman, @zoeschiffer, @kevinmorales___, @t1redpr0, and @jesshutch
| Fintech Finance: |
French startup Seyna, which develops insurance and productivity tools for brokers, raises a €33M Series A, bringing its total funding to €47M — Seyna, the fast-growing insurance platform, announces a €33 million investment round to scale its service to all brokers and merchants in Europe.| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Egypt-based Thndr, an investing app for stocks and mutual funds in the Middle East and North Africa, raises a $20M Series A led by Tiger Global and others — The MENA region has about 400 million people with $500 billion in annual savings. But as a relatively young population …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Swiss startup Scandit, which develops software for scanning barcodes, IDs, and more, raises a $150M Series D led by Warburg Pincus at a $1B+ valuation — Consumers and businesses are forever demanding faster and easier ways to get things done, and today a startup that is building tech …
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FinSMEs, VentureBeat, Tech.eu, Crunchbase News, EU-Startups, Reuters, and Scandit
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A review of digital advertising in 2022, which has shifted from a Google-Meta duopoly to one where Amazon and potentially Apple are major forces — Six years ago tomorrow, in The Reality of Missing Out, I wrote that the digital advertising market was settled, and Google and Facebook won:
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Lyft Q4: revenue of $970M, vs. $940M est. and up from $570M YoY, average revenue per rider of $51.79, up 14% YoY, but 18.73M active riders, down from 18.94M QoQ — - Lyft reported fourth-quarter earnings after-the-bell on Tuesday. — Lyft reported 18.73 million active riders in the last quarter of 2021.
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| The Intercept: |
Purchase records and docs show that 14 of the 15 US Cabinet departments and several other federal agencies bought Cellebrite phone hacking tools in recent years — Investigators with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service frequently work to thwart a variety of environmental offenses …
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9to5Mac. Tweets: @marahvistendahl, @foxcahn, @marahvistendahl, @stopspyingny, and @hypervisible
| Shubham Agarwal / The Verge: |
Interviews with over a dozen rapid grocery delivery workers in India show they spent months healing after road accidents and had to pay their own medical bills — India's instant delivery apps are pushing drivers into accidents — Mahesh knew he was running out of time.
Tweets: @phonesoldier, @roadsofmumbai, @adrianhon, @moravec, and @phonesoldier. Thanks:@phonesoldier
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