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Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January 2023; Tan will step away from his role at his firm Initialized Capital
Flow's Adam Neumann seems to have a conflict of interest given he is the largest investor in real estate tech startup Alfred and had board seats there until May
Report: TikTok's in-app browser injects JavaScript that can track users' keystrokes and taps into websites; TikTok confirms the code but says it's for debugging
After Mark Zuckerberg shared a screenshot from Horizon Worlds for an announcement, people criticize the graphics and Meta's $10B investment in the metaverse
Adam Neumann's real estate startup Flow plans to launch a digital wallet for crypto and fiat currencies and may offer a tokenized rewards program
AtoB, which offers a payment system specially designed for truckers, raised a $155M Series B led by Elad Gil and General Catalyst, valuing the company at $800M
Forage, which provides software for grocers to accept online SNAP food stamp payments, has raised a $22M Series A led by Nyca Partners at a ~$100M valuation
Facebook Gave Police Teenager's DMs in Abortion Prosecution
$5.6B Cloud Company Fivetran Acquired Its Way to Survival
Sources: former TikTok content moderators working for a third-party company say they were trained using CSAM from a shared document with wide internal access
A staff member from Senator Cynthia Lummis' office says the SEC is investigating Binance and every US crypto exchange, including Coinbase
Tel Aviv-based Balance, which offers one-click checkout tools for B2B marketplaces, raised a $56M Series B led by Ribbit Capital, valuing the company at $356M
ClassDojo, a school communications app, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation last September and plans to launch a virtual space for kids in August
Gordian Software, whose API enables airlines to sell flight add-ons like seat selection or additional baggage, has raised a $25M Series A at a $200M valuation
Singapore-based Intellect, which lets employers offer mental health services as part of employee benefit programs, raised $10M, doubling its Series A to $20M
The Senate Intelligence Committee asks the FTC to investigate whether TikTok misled lawmakers about China-based ByteDance employees accessing American user data
After providing $750M in credit lines, Sam Bankman-Fried says some crypto companies are "basically too far gone", "bearish views on Tether are wrong", and more
A look at NGL, an app that lets Instagram users send anonymous DMs, and its content moderation challenges; Data.ai: NGL has 1.75M downloads since November 2021
Nomad Health, an online marketplace for temporary healthcare jobs, has raised $105M, bringing its total funding to $200M+, as it expands beyond travel nurses
Investigation: Instagram let a man accused of selling photos of children to pedophiles share images on two accounts months after he was charged and arrested
Techmeme · 5 months ago
TikTok is less transparent than US platforms about how long it keeps content deleted by users, as US law enforcement agencies increasingly seek to get such data
NY-based Capital Rx, whose software lets employers, unions, and insurers handle claims processing and billing for prescription drugs, raises a $106M Series C
Microsoft Announces It Will Include Pay Ranges in All U.S. Job Postings
Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data
Unsealed docs show how the US ordered travel firms Sabre and Travelport to spy on a Russian hacker for two years, giving the Secret Service weekly reports
After leaving Amazon on July 1, Dave Clark will join supply chain software startup Flexport as co-CEO starting September 1, becoming sole CEO six months later
Techmeme · 6 months ago