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PortalOne raises $15M seed from Atari, Founders Fund, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, and others for its hybrid gaming/TV show app, coming out of closed beta soon(Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
PortalOne raises $15M seed from Atari, Founders Fund, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, and others for its hybrid gaming/TV show app, coming out of closed beta soon — Gaming and streamed video have been two of the biggest pastime winners during the last year+ of pandemic living… Source
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Some teenagers say French social networking app Yubo, which has 18M downloads in the US, ignored reports that the Uvalde shooter threatened violence on the app(Washington Post)
Some teenagers say French social networking app Yubo, which has 18M downloads in the US, ignored reports that the Uvalde shooter threatened violence on the app — Young people who met the alleged gunman online said he had threatened to kidnap, rape or kill… Source
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Artists are tapping into NFT marketplaces, which could pay them thousands for their work, but are running into scams, environmental concerns, and crypto hype(Abby Ohlheiser/MIT Technology Review)
Artists are tapping into NFT marketplaces, which could pay them thousands for their work, but are running into scams, environmental concerns, and crypto hype — Artists are jumping into a market that will pay thousands for their work. But they’re running into scams, environmental concerns, and crypto hype… Source
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a16z names Sriram Krishnan as its newest GP, after roles at Facebook, Snap, Twitter; Krishnan has been consulting for nine months on an a16z “community project”(Marc Andreessen/Andreessen Horowitz)
a16z names Sriram Krishnan as its newest GP, after roles at Facebook, Snap, Twitter; Krishnan has been consulting for nine months on an a16z “community project” — Welcome, Sriram Krishnan, our newest general partner, to Andreessen Horowitz! — Sriram is a well-known … Source
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Didi’s ride hailing rival Cao Cao Mobility, which is owned by automaker Geely, raises ~$588M from Chinese state-owned funds; Cao Cao had 10M+ MAUs in July(Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
Didi’s ride hailing rival Cao Cao Mobility, which is owned by automaker Geely, raises ~$588M from Chinese state-owned funds; Cao Cao had 10M+ MAUs in July _ Chinese state-owned funds are piling into a fast-growing rival to Didi Chuxing, taking advantage of regulatory pressure on the country’s largest ride-hailing app… Source
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Ajaib, an Indonesia-based stock trading and investment app that claims to have 1M monthly active users, raises $25M Series A led by Horizons Ventures(Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)
Ajaib, an Indonesia-based stock trading and investment app that claims to have 1M monthly active users, raises $25M Series A led by Horizons Ventures — Ajaib Group, an online investment platform that says it now runs the fifth-largest stock brokerage in Indonesia by number of trades … Source
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Third-party vendor HubSpot says it was hacked, leading to customer data breach notifications at Circle, BlockFi, Pantera Capital, NYDIG, and other crypto firms(Jeff John Roberts/Decrypt)
Third-party vendor HubSpot says it was hacked, leading to customer data breach notifications at Circle, BlockFi, Pantera Capital, NYDIG, and other crypto firms — Crypto companies invest heavily in cybersecurity, but hackers can still burrow in by attacking their third-party vendors… Source
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Salt Lake City-based Strider, whose service helps companies and governments protect IP, talent, and supply chains from state-backed actors, raises $45M Series B(Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
Salt Lake City-based Strider, whose service helps companies and governments protect IP, talent, and supply chains from state-backed actors, raises $45M Series B _ Strider, a platform designed to help companies, governments and research institutions protect intellectual property (IP), talent and supply chains from nation-state threats, has raised $45 million… Source
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Andrew Bosworth publicly releases his internal post on Facebook’s role in 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica, polarization, algorithmic transparency, and more(Andrew Bosworth/Facebook)
Andrew Bosworth publicly releases his internal post on Facebook’s role in 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica, polarization, algorithmic transparency, and more — The NYT recently obtained a copy of a post I made to the wall of my internal profile within Facebook… Source
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Zscaler stock rose ~12% on Wednesday after reporting Q3 earnings beat and announcing it will acquire India-based cybersecurity company Smokescreen Technologies(Tiernan Ray/ZDNet)
Zscaler stock rose ~12% on Wednesday after reporting Q3 earnings beat and announcing it will acquire India-based cybersecurity company Smokescreen Technologies — Zscaler said Smokescreen will help with ransomeware attacks and zero-trust security. — Cyber-security firm Zscaler … Source
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