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Sources: TPG invested $47M in HR software startup Greenhouse and spent around $450M buying shares from existing investors including Benchmark and Thrive Capital
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Do You Suddenly Need To Stop Using WhatsApp?
WhatsApp Tells Users: Share Your Data With Facebook Or We’ll Delete Your Account
UK High Court rules that security services cannot search the computers and phones of millions of people under a single "general warrant"
Jack Ma, Chinese Multibillionaire And Founder Of Tech Giant Alibaba, Went Missing After Criticizing China’s Government
While Facebook touts e2e encryption on WhatsApp, Apple's privacy labels highlight how much user metadata WhatsApp collects compared to iMessage
When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?
Chicago-based food processing company Archer Daniels Midland, and InnovaFeed, a French firm that makes insect protein for animal feed, plan to begin building what will be the world’s largest insect protein facility in 2021 in the city of Decatur in central Illinois.
U.S. Government Voids Public Comments On Newly Proposed Crypto Wallet Rule
CloudTrucks, which helps truck drivers find work and advises them on which loads to take to increase revenue, raises $20.5M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital
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Sources: Israeli surveillance vendors like Bsightful, backed by the US public company Verint, hook into ad exchange systems to siphon app location data
America’s Three Richest People Are Now Positioned To Pay Zero State Income Tax
Wiz, which helps companies identify cybersecurity threats across a cloud network, raises $100M Series A led by Index Ventures at an estimated $500M valuation
Reaching Net Zero Emissions In Virginia Could Increase State GDP More Than $3.5 Billion Per Year
Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup Stord has raised $31M Series B at a ~$200M valuation led by Founders Fund, bringing its total funding to $46M
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Profile of Luminar's Austin Russell, one of the first billionaires to emerge from the autonomous vehicle world after Luminar went public via a SPAC on Thursday
Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary
Friends and colleagues of Tony Hsieh say he was privately coping with issues of mental health and addiction, made worse by COVID lockdowns, over the past year
GreenPark Sports, a mobile game and sports fan "world" from Chad Hurley and Zappos founder Nick Swinmurn, raises $14M Series A and announces NBA partnership
Visa says it's connecting its global network of 60M merchants to the US Dollar Coin, a stable coin created by Circle Internet Financial on ethereum's blockchain
Vista Equity Partners is acquiring a majority stake in CRM startup Gainsight, valuing it at $1.1B; Gainsight says it's on pace to hit $100M in ARR this year
Interviews with tech leaders on Tony Hsieh's legacy, his student life at Harvard, his unconventional business approach, and the culture he built at Zappos
Researchers: Baidu Maps and the Baidu App, with ~1.4B downloads globally, were leaking sensitive user data; Baidu Maps remains removed from Google's Play Store
Apple's M1 Macs are impressive but some may want to pass on them for now due to incompatibility or stability issues with apps like Matlab, Parallels, and Docker
Profile of Vishal Garg, CEO of Better.com, who is fighting lawsuits that accuse him of fraud and misappropriation of funds at previous business ventures
Crypto analytics startup Chainalysis raises $100M Series C led by Addition at a $1B valuation, says its revenue grew by around 96% over the past year
IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender…52 Years Later
YouTube Will Now Show Ads on All Videos Even If Creators Don’t Want Them
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Heyday, which buys and launches Amazon businesses, raises $175M Series A from General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and others
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