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Source: Sequoia Capital recently bought shares of online automation firm Zapier from its founders on the secondary market, with the sale valuing Zapier at $4B+ (Kate Clark / The Information)
Source: Sequoia Capital recently bought shares of online automation firm Zapier from its founders on the secondary market, with the sale valuing Zapier at $4B+ — Zapier isn’t a household name in Silicon Valley, but the world’s top venture capitalists have long been trying to own a piece of the booming enterprise software firm. Source
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Voter registration info of ~6.5M Israeli citizens and detailed personal info for ~3.2M was leaked online on Monday, two days before elections for its parliament (Catalin Cimpanu / The Record)
Voter registration info of ~6.5M Israeli citizens and detailed personal info for ~3.2M was leaked online on Monday, two days before elections for its parliament — The voter registration and personal details of millions of Israeli citizens were leaked online on Monday. Source
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Pax8, which helps IT companies centralize provisioning and billing processes across multiple cloud apps, raises $96M and announces the acquisition of Wirehive (Michael Vizard / VentureBeat)
Pax8, which helps IT companies centralize provisioning and billing processes across multiple cloud apps, raises $96M and announces the acquisition of Wirehive — Pax8, the provider of a platform that makes it simpler for IT services firms to centralize the provisioning and billing processes. Source
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Opera launches its Crypto Browser for iOS, featuring a built-in crypto wallet supporting Ethereum, Polygon, and Celo, crypto exchange access, dApps, and more (Aliya Chaudhry / TechCrunch)
Opera launches its Crypto Browser for iOS, featuring a built-in crypto wallet supporting Ethereum, Polygon, and Celo, crypto exchange access, dApps, and more — Opera has launched the iOS version of their Crypto Browser, designed for accessing web3, with a non-custodial crypto wallet built-in. Source
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IDC says Apple has shipped 90.1M iPhones in Q1, the largest number of shipments in a single quarter since IDC started tracking smartphones (Kif Leswing / CNBC)
IDC says Apple has shipped 90.1M iPhones in Q1, the largest number of shipments in a single quarter since IDC started tracking smartphones — – The iPhone is booming: Sales were up 17% year-over-year to a whopping $65.6 billion in a single quarter. — Research firm IDC estimates. Source
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Sources say Discord is exploring a sale that could value it at $10B+, with one source saying it is in the final stage of negotiations (Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat)
Sources say Discord is exploring a sale that could value it at $10B+, with one source saying it is in the final stage of negotiations — Discord is going through a sales process now that could result in a purchase of the communications and cha5t platform for much more than $10 billion, GamesBeat has learned. Source
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Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple’s IDFA ad privacy changes (Financial Times)
Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple’s IDFA ad privacy changes — ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group. Source
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A look at the rise and fall of Xiami, Alibaba’s discontinued music streaming service, which only had 22.4M MAUs by Oct. vs. 450M+ for Tencent’s three music apps (South China Morning Post)
A look at the rise and fall of Xiami, Alibaba’s discontinued music streaming service, which only had 22.4M MAUs by Oct. vs. 450M+ for Tencent’s three music apps — Once a leader, Xiami saw its monthly active users (MAUs) fall to 22.4 million by October 2020, a tiny fraction of the 450 million. Source
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Q&A with Cory Hrncirik, Microsoft’s Modern Finance project lead, on flattening the company’s finance head count with AI and data lakes, using Excel, and more (Nina Trentmann/Wall Street Journal)
Q&A with Cory Hrncirik, Microsoft’s Modern Finance project lead, on flattening the company’s finance head count with AI and data lakes, using Excel, and more — The new tools help automate tasks. But ‘we love Excel,’ says Cory Hrncirik, who leads Microsoft’s Modern Finance project. Source
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Twitter’s Spaces is well positioned to challenge Clubhouse as it’s intuitive, a logical fit for Twitter, and adds a meaningful new experience to the Twitter app (Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology)
Twitter’s Spaces is well positioned to challenge Clubhouse as it’s intuitive, a logical fit for Twitter, and adds a meaningful new experience to the Twitter app — Why Twitter’s Clubhouse clone is poised to give the hottest app on the planet a run for its money. — I live a simple life with a few steadfast rules. Source
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