Report: an email shows Amazon is walking back some corporate employee raises after a bug caused it to overstate bonuses by using older, higher stock prices
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NYC-based Messari, which offers Bloomberg Terminal-style reports and charts on crypto, raised a $35M Series B led by Brevan Howard Digital
Kraken CEO Jesse Powell steps down and will remain on the board as chairman; Chief Operating Officer Dave Ripley will succeed him in the coming months
A look at Brian Armstrong's GiveCrypto, which launched to financially empower those in need and aimed to raise $1B, but became a mess of misplaced assurances
Bosses are obsessed with returning to the office. Here’s why it’s already out of their hands
Six people, including Coinbase employees and prominent crypto developers, sue the US Treasury, Janet Yellen, and officials in Texas over Tornado Cash sanctions
Bosses giving up the return-to-office fight have found another way to win: Tracking their remote workers’ every move
Marc Andreessen slams new multi-family affordable housing
Everyone’s over remote work except for the workers themselves
Variant, an early stage crypto-focused fund, has raised $450M for a third fund focused on the "user-owned web", after previously raising $22.5M and $110M
Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s process to review employees’ worth to Amazon
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Glassdoor ordered to unmask former toy company employees who posted criticism
Lightspeed Ventures raised $6.6B across three US funds and $500M for an India and Southeast Asia fund, as it debuts a dedicated team to back blockchain founders
As Silicon Valley fantasizes about Web3, India leaps ahead on payments – Fortune
US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software
An Elon Musk takeover could end Twitter’s permanent work-from-home policy
The once-booming tech industry is starting to cut jobs and costs. Is this a blip? Or a bubble finally bursting?
Moonbirds, an NFT collection of digital owls by Kevin Rose's Proof Collective, a group of 1K NFT collectors whose membership costs ~$285K, made $281M+ in sales
Middle managers fear they've become irrelevant with work from home
Arkansas-based AcreTrader, an online farmland investment portal, raises a $40M Series B led by Anthemis Group, bringing its total funding to $58M
The Microsoft paradox: Contributing to cyber threats and monetizing the cure
AgentSync, which helps insurance agencies manage broker onboarding, licensing, and compliance requirements, raises a $75M Series B at a $1.2B valuation
BetterUp, which provides mental health counseling and employee coaching through its app, raises $300M Series E at a $5B valuation
Jeremy Liew, Bijan Sabet, and Roger Ehrenberg stepping back from active roles at their firms reflects a broader generational shift in the VC industry
Job-hopping heats up: 65% of U.S. workers are looking for a new job
Female and family focused digital health startup Maven raises $110M Series D co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital at an over $1B valuation
Incorta, which aims to optimize data warehousing projects for enterprises, raises $120M Series D led by Prysm Capital, bringing its total funding to $195M
Fiddler AI, which makes tools to help engineers monitor machine learning systems, raises $32M Series B led by Insight Partners
Material Security, which provides email security through integration with identity-protection products like Okta, raises $40M, bringing its total raised to $66M
How publishers are using tech, including AI-generated voices for audiobooks, Google Lens AR, and Amazon's novella app Kindle Vella, to entice young readers
Rocket Lawyer, which offers online legal documents and virtual attorney meetings to businesses and individuals, raises $223M led by Vista Credit Partners
Scale AI, which helps companies manage data for AI applications, raises $325M at a $7.3B valuation, up from a $3.5B valuation in December 2020
Australian online design service Canva has raised $71M, valuing the company at $15B, up from its $6B valuation last June
ACLU discloses that it shares personally identifiable info of its website users and donors with platforms like Facebook, Google, and others, for ad targeting
OpenSea, a marketplace for NFTs, raises $23M Series A led by a16z crypto, says $95M in digital merchandise was sold on the service in Feb., up from $8M in Jan.
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