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A trove of 124k+ internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveals management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's aggressive global expansion — - More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian — Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal — Programming note: Ugh, here we are again, huh? — Oh Elon — I think it is helpful to start with the big picture.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: defense contractor L3Harris scuttled plans to buy NSO Group despite alleged US intel officials' support, after the Biden admin's outrage over the talks — The American contractor L3 Harris is said to have cited support from intelligence officials for its effort to acquire NSO …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Tiger Global plans to slow startup investments for two quarters and is on track to raise a new fund later this year — Tiger Global, one of the biggest winners from the technology bull market, plans to decelerate the pace of its investments in startups for two quarters … | Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
How North Korean spies infiltrate US crypto firms, posing as remote workers; UN says the country has stolen billions of dollars' worth of crypto from exchanges — Washington (CNN)Devin, the founder of a cryptocurrency startup based in San Francisco, woke up one day in February to the most bizarre phone call of his life.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
A Q&A with Chip Morningstar, a developer behind Lucasfilm's MMORPG forerunner Habitat, on the metaverse, blockchain, lessons learned building the game, and more — The metaverse is all the rage today, and its lineage goes way back in gaming. The universe of connected virtual worlds might …
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| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: Myanmar's junta rolls out Chinese surveillance cameras with facial recognition tech in five more cities and plans to add them to every state in Myanmar — Myanmar's junta government is installing Chinese-built cameras with facial recognition capabilities in more cities across the country …
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Germany-based Kadmos, a salary payments service for migrant workers, raises a €29M Series A led by Blossom Capital, after an €8.5M seed round in March — Companies from across the industrial spectrum often rely on a migrant workforce, with data from the International Labour Organization indicating …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
As mobile ad targeting becomes less effective, companies in the West are pushing the “super app” idea to capture ever more of users' time, attention, and money — Super apps, immensely popular in Asia but not in the U.S., are the new hot thing for companies scrambling to capture ever more of our time, attention and money
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| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
Qiming Venture Partners, an early Xiaomi backer, raised $3.2B across two funds, bringing its total managed to $9.4B across 18 funds — Qiming Venture Partners raised $3.2 billion across two new funds, joining Sequoia China and IDG in securing fresh capital as investors grow more sanguine about the country's startup arena.
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| Vincent Manancourt / Politico: |
Despite many of the CJEU's rulings saying mass surveillance is banned in the EU, member states have ruthlessly exploited loopholes to collect and keep the data — Jack Murphy* was suspicious. His ex-girlfriend, Eve Doherty, seemed to know a lot about who he was calling. — His suspicions were merited.| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
VC funding in Latin America, which hit a record $14.8B in 2021 according to PitchBook, has slowed down in 2022 as investors without large portfolios pull back — Shu Nyatta's friends thought he was crazy when he said he was going to move to Miami and start investing in companies in Latin America.
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