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World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded
Filing: Parler, the social media app that was temporarily booted from app stores in the aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riot, raises $20M
Illicit activity a tiny part of cryptocurrency use
Sources: IBM is trying again to sell its unprofitable Watson Health division, potentially for $1B+; IBM spent $4B+ on M&A to build Watson Health
Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones
A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs in November
Sources: OpenSea is in talks to acquire Dharma Labs, whose Ethereum wallet can transfer money between banks and exchanges, for $110M-$130M in an all-stock deal
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of conspiracy
Taboola partners with Microsoft to launch a real-time service by the end of Q1 2022 that lets advertisers bid for ad inventory across the open web
Ubisoft's Unprecedented “Exodus” of Developers
Dedrone, which lets airports, stadiums, correctional facilities, and others detect and track drones, raises a $30.5M Series C led by Axon
Judge rejects Purdue Pharma's $4.5B opioid settlement
Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
Spotify acquires Australian company Whooshkaa, which helps radio broadcasters turn existing content into podcasts and sell ads around them
The US bans investing in eight Chinese companies, including DJI and Megvii, for their alleged involvement in surveilling Uyghurs and other minority groups
Source: grocery delivery service Gopuff, which recently launched in London and NYC, raised $1.5B in convertible notes at a ~$40B valuation
Katie Haun is leaving Andreessen Horowitz to start a new firm focusing on crypto and Web3 startups; Haun's deals at a16z included OpenSea and Coinbase
Course Hero, an online class study materials provider that acquired CliffsNotes and QuillBot in August, raises a $380M Series C at a $3.6B valuation
In an interview, Meta's Andrew Bosworth says political and COVID-19 misinformation are societal problems, not issues that have been magnified by social networks
Roku says it has agreed to a multi-year extension with Google for distributing YouTube and YouTube TV apps on its devices; Roku's stock is up 15%+
Over 200 newspapers now involved in lawsuits vs. Google, Facebook
The Biden administration accelerates efforts to fill nearly 600K cybersecurity roles in the US public and private sectors
U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy
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