Mobile ad tech company AppLovin aims to raise up to $2.13B via its IPO, pricing shares at $75-$85 for a $30B+ valuation; S-1 showed a net loss of $126M in 2020 bizjournals.com · 3 days ago
India-based Groww, which lets users invest in mutual funds, gold, stocks, and more, raises $83M Series D led by Tiger Global, at a valuation of $1B+ techcrunch.com · 3 days ago
Bryter, which offers a no-code service to build enterprise apps, raises $66M Series B led by Tiger Global to expand in the US techcrunch.com · 3 days ago
Interview with researcher Luke Stark on the promises and pitfalls of emotion-sensing AI, and social media's attempt to translate emotive expression into data onezero.medium.com · 3 days ago
Apple podcast data indicates that there are 2M podcasts, but of those, 26% only have one episode, 44% have three or fewer, and only 36% have 10+ episodes amplifimedia.com · 4 days ago
A look at #DeclineNow, a group of DoorDash drivers trying to game DoorDash's algorithm by rejecting low paying deliveries in order to get higher rates bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
API Holdings, the parent company of Indian online pharmacy Pharmeasy, raises $350M; sources say the deal gives Pharmeasy a post-money valuation of $1.5B economictimes.indiatimes.com · 4 days ago
Prosimo, which offers a service for simplifying application delivery across multi-cloud environments, emerges from stealth with $25M in seed and Series A crn.com · 4 days ago
Fyllo, a provider of software to help cannabis companies with marketing, analytics, and compliance, raises $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $60M builtinchicago.org · 4 days ago
Sources: Grab is set to go public in the US through a SPAC merger that will value it at ~$35B, as soon as this week t.co · 4 days ago
Jeff Bezos says Amazon supports a rise in the corporate tax rate and making bold investments in US infrastructure, but stops short of supporting Biden's plan cnbc.com · 4 days ago
Patreon raises $155M Series F led by Tiger Global Management at a $4B valuation, up from $1.2B in September, bringing its total raised to $411M wsj.com · 4 days ago
BitMEX cofounder Arthur Hayes turns himself in to US authorities six months after BitMEX was accused of trying to avoid implementing money laundering controls bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
UK launches the Digital Markets Unit, a watchdog with limited powers, initially tasked with stopping big tech companies from exploiting market dominance wsj.com · 4 days ago
Facebook says the leaked 533M records is a different data set that attackers created by abusing a flaw in a Facebook contacts import feature, not by hacking wired.com · 4 days ago
Australian online design service Canva has raised $71M, valuing the company at $15B, up from its $6B valuation last June fortune.com · 4 days ago
Gadget trade-in site Gazelle says it changed its mind and will continue to offer its online trade-in program, after briefly ending its program in February theverge.com · 4 days ago
Google announces the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for developing the OS itself, providing more memory safety guarantees than C and C++ xda-developers.com · 4 days ago
Sources: Clubhouse is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business at about $4B, following its reported valuation of ~$1B in January bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
Google open sources Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses ML to create high-quality voice calls for low-bandwidth networks or archiving large amounts of speech venturebeat.com · 4 days ago
Ahead of its April 14 direct listing, Coinbase reports a record quarter, with estimated profits of $730M-$800M in Q1 on revenue of ~$1.8B and 56M verified users decrypt.co · 4 days ago
Apple launches an app for enterprises to test devices that work with Apple's Find My network, ahead of its expected launch of its own new AirTags accessory techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
Sendbird, which helps developers integrate chat, video, and other features in their apps, raises $100M at a $1.05B valuation led by Steadfast Financial techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
Companies that make $1 display driver chips can't keep up with surging demand, causing serious production problems for products with LCD displays like laptops bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
TikTok says creators will soon be able to add automatic captions to videos in US English and Japanese with support for other languages "in the coming months" theverge.com · 4 days ago
Cora, which offers a digital checking account and other financial services to SMBs, raises $26.7M Series A led by Ribbit Capital techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
NonFungible.com data shows the average price of an NFT has dropped from over $4,000 in late February to ~$1,256 on April 5 cnn.com · 4 days ago
KKR closes $15B Fund IV, its Asia-focused private equity fund, nearly four years after its $9.3B Asian Fund III; KKR will put ~$1.3B into Fund IV techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
Source shares data on 1,803 US taxpayer-funded orgs using Clearview AI; many cops used its facial recognition without higher-ups knowing or after a local ban buzzfeednews.com · 4 days ago
OneStream Software, which offers tools to enterprises to help them run financial operations, raises $200M led by D1 Capital Partners, at a $6B valuation techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
Review of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon Scalable CPUs, its first server chip design using a 10nm process, which sees large increases in performance for many workloads anandtech.com · 4 days ago
New software update for the Google Pixel lineup reportedly dramatically boosts Pixel 5's GPU performance, which had been poor for a Snapdragon 765G-based phone xda-developers.com · 4 days ago
A Facebook recruiter, Rhett Lindsey, who left after 11 months, and others say Facebook's hiring processes are problematic and will hinder diversity goals washingtonpost.com · 4 days ago
Signal says it has added support for privacy-focused cryptocurrency MobileCoin to let users send and receive money, starting in the UK on iOS and Android wired.com · 4 days ago
EU says a number of institutions, including the European Commission, were hit by a significant cyberattack last week, although no data breach has been detected bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
YouTube says that 18 out of every 10K views in Q4 2020 were on videos that violate its policies, down from 72 out of every 10K views in Q4 2017 theverge.com · 4 days ago
Upsolver, which offers low-code SQL tools for cloud data analytics, raises $25M Series B, adds free tools for smaller workloads and says revenue tripled in 2020 venturebeat.com · 4 days ago
India's CRED, which rewards customers for paying their credit card bills on time, raises $215M Series D at a $2.2B post-money valuation, up from $800M in Jan. techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
A look at the rise and fall of India's missed call industry, which was transformed by Twitter-owned ZipDial that serviced 5M missed calls a day at its peak restofworld.org · 5 days ago
As the pandemic drags on, new shows are harder to come by for streaming services; report: the number of originals Netflix released so far in '21 is down 12% YoY bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
Discord says it had taken down 2,212 extremist and violent communities from its platform, about 1,500 were first detected by the company, from July to Dec. 2020 npr.org · 5 days ago
Clubhouse partners with Stripe to let its users send payments to other users without taking a cut; only selected users will be able to receive payments for now joinclubhouse.com · 5 days ago
Sources: Enjoy Technology, which runs mobile tech retail stores and is led by ex-Apple exec Ron Johnson, is in talks to go public via SPAC at a $1.6B valuation bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
Uber says driver price-naming and destination previewing policies it introduced last year in California have hurt its business, and is considering ending both sfchronicle.com · 5 days ago
A recent filing shows that Google acquired 3D audio startup Dysonics, whose employees now work on audio hardware at Google, in Dec.; terms of deal are not known protocol.com · 5 days ago
tvOS 14.5 beta code suggests 120Hz refresh rate support could be available on the next gen Apple TV, rumored to have an HDMI 2.1 port for 4K 120Hz streaming 9to5mac.com · 5 days ago
Records show Facebook donated $50K to a GOP group in Feb. via direct corporate contribution; FB said in Jan. it would suspend donations from its PAC for Q1 popular.info · 5 days ago
Yahoo Answers, one of the internet's most storied Q&A sites, will be shut down on May 4 and the company says a comprehensive archive will not be provided theverge.com · 5 days ago
Co-founder leaves Knotel after its bankruptcy and reported $70M sale; Knotel, which used blockchain to track property listings, was once valued at $1B+ techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
SoftBank announces it is spending $2.8B to buy a 40% stake in warehouse robotics company AutoStore zdnet.com · 5 days ago