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Investigation: for ~$160, data broker SafeGraph will sell a week's worth of data on visitors of 600+ Planned Parenthood locations and where they went afterwards — It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards.
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Internal documents: the CDC bought the location data of millions of phones in the US to analyze compliance with COVID-19 rules, especially in the Navajo Nation — Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too.
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Interviews with 30+ people detail Elon Musk's impulse to acquire Twitter, relying on around 10 confidants who mostly agree with him and carry out his bidding — To a degree unseen in any other mogul, the world's richest man acts on impulse and the belief that he is absolutely right.
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By accepting Elon Musk's bid, Twitter's management and board of directors showed they care more about shareholders than Twitter as a company or as a product — I'm sorry but more Twitter — You can tell a simple story about Elon Musk's pending acquisition of Twitter Inc. that goes like this.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
In a filing, Twitter says Elon Musk's bid could make it difficult to attract and retain key talent, keep employees focused, and make changes to its business — Twitter Inc.'s $44 billion deal to be acquired by Elon Musk means it risks losing advertisers and employees, who may be concerned about the company's uncertain future.
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The SEC plans to add 20 investigators and litigators to its Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, created in September 2017 to investigate fraud, taking it to 50 staff — Agency to add 20 staffers to help tighten scrutiny of unregulated $1.7 trillion cryptocurrency market
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify debuts Spotify Island on Roblox, the first music streaming brand on the service; artists and fans can go on quests, unlock content, and buy merchandise — Spotify announced today it will become the first music streaming brand to have an official presence within Roblox, with the launch of …
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Meta's AI lab has created a language model called Open Pretrained Transformer, trained with 175B parameters, and is making it available for free for researchers — Meta's AI lab has created a massive new language model that shares both the remarkable abilities and the harmful flaws of OpenAI's pioneering neural network GPT-3.
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Lithuania-based kevin., which offers card-less account-to-account payments, raises a $65M Series A led by Accel and says 6K merchants in Europe already use it — Payments remains a very fragmented business around the world: depending on where you're buying or selling something … | Wall Street Journal: |
TSMC, Intel, and others are asking for preferential access to components amid the chip shortage, arguing that giving semiconductor makers priority could ease it — Intel and TSMC are looking to boost chip output amid supercharged demand, but getting the equipment to do so requires increasing patience| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Edge Delta, which focuses on data observability using distributed stream processing and federated machine learning, raises a $63M Series B led by Quiet Capital — Databases are growing at an exponential rate these days, and so when it comes to real-time data observability …
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After cracking down on its technology giants, China is leaning on Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan's distribution networks during ongoing lockdowns in Shanghai — The regulatory crackdown on Big Tech that started in China in late 2020 sent stocks reeling. Over the past year … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cloud infrastructure access management startup Teleport raises a $110M Series C led by Bessemer at a $1.1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $169M — Cloud infrastructure access management startup Teleport said today it has become Silicon Valley's latest unicorn after closing …
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Graphite, an open-source command line interface and code review dashboard, raises $20M Series A led by a16z and hopes to grow its team of 6 to 15+ by year's end — Graphite's founders came from Facebook, Airbnb and Square, three companies where they had access to sophisticated code review tools.| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK has shelved plans to empower the CMA's digital markets unit, announced in 2020, hampering its ability to set rules and impose fines — Government not expected to include legislation to beef up CMA's digital markets unit in Queen's Speech — The UK is poised to shelve plans …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Traceable AI, which offers services to protect APIs from cyberattacks, raises a $60M Series B led by IVP at a $450M post-money valuation — Traceable AI, a startup offering services designed to protect APIs from cyberattacks, today announced that it raised $60 million in a Series B round led …
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Bangalore-based Toplyne, which offers automated tools to help convert leads into paying users, raises a $15M Series A led by Tiger Global and Sequoia India — For product-led growth companies (PLG), the perennial question is: how do we get non-paying customers to subscribe?
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