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Adding crypto to IndiaStack, a set of national APIs for payments and identity, could allow India to build an OSS stack for domestic and foreign transactions(Balaji S. Srinivasan)
Adding crypto to IndiaStack, a set of national APIs for payments and identity, could allow India to build an OSS…
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Profile of ShareChat, an India-centric social network which lacks English language support and has 160M MAUs, 100M of which signed up in the last year(Shubham Agarwal/Fast Company)
Profile of ShareChat, an India-centric social network which lacks English language support and has 160M MAUs, 100M of which signed…
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A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets(Todd Feathers/The Guardian)
A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS…
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Jakarta-based Bibit, which offers robo-advisor services to help millennial users invest in mutual funds based on their risk profiles, raises $80M+ led by GIC(Budi Sutrisno/Tech in Asia)
Jakarta-based Bibit, which offers robo-advisor services to help millennial users invest in mutual funds based on their risk profiles, raises…
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Games Fund One, the VC firm’s new $600M fund for games that will invest in studios, infrastructure, and consumer apps(Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Games Fund One, the VC firm’s new $600M fund for games that will invest in studios, infrastructure, and consumer apps …
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iFixit will sell nearly every part of Valve’s Steam Deck, including its $350 motherboard with the AMD Aerith chip, and upgrades to the fan and the screen (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
iFixit will sell nearly every part of Valve’s Steam Deck, including its $350 motherboard with the AMD Aerith chip, and…
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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…
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Chris Sacca on his move to climate investing, Jack Dorsey’s inability to confront big questions, and Travis Kalanick’s weakness in managing company culture(Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
Chris Sacca on his move to climate investing, Jack Dorsey’s inability to confront big questions, and Travis Kalanick’s weakness in…
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Sources: data analytics service Databricks is in talks to raise a private funding round, potentially valuing it at ~$27B; Databricks was valued at $6.2B in 2019(Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
Sources: data analytics service Databricks is in talks to raise a private funding round, potentially valuing it at ~$27B; Databricks…
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Dealogic: Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet announced more acquisitions in 2021 than in any other year in the past decade (CNBC)
Dealogic: Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet announced more acquisitions in 2021 than in any other year in the past decade _…
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