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CoinFLEX CEO Mark Lamb says crypto investor Roger Ver owes CoinFLEX $47M in USDC, after Ver denied “some rumors” he defaulted on a debt to a counterparty — The crypto exchange is launching a recovery token because of debt owed by a high-net-worth customer.
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After freezing withdrawals, crypto exchange CoinFlex plans to issue up to 47M Recovery Value USD tokens, offering a 20% annual return, to repay a $47M debt — Cryptocurrency exchange CoinFlex plans to raise funds by issuing a new token that will offer a 20% annual return …
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann is stepping down and transitioning to executive chairman, to be replaced by Google's president of commerce Bill Ready — The social-media company says Ben Silbermann will transition to executive chairman after leading the company since its founding in 2010
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| Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: |
Arm announces new mobile Armv9 CPUs with improved performance and new GPUs including the flagship Immortalis-G715, its first with hardware-enabled ray-tracing — It's that time of the year when industry colossus Arm reveals its new line of CPUs and GPUs that will power the following year's smartphones.
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| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Sony launches InZone, a brand of gaming devices aimed at PC gamers but with tight PS5 integration, starting with 4K and 1080p 27" monitors and three headsets — The brand will leverage Sony's high quality display and audio technologies, said Sony home entertainment president Kazuo Kii
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Tweets: @rukizzel, @thetacticalbrit, @shannon_liao, @videotech_, @nanopolymath, and @starfire2258
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Google Public Sector, a new division aiming to bring Google Cloud tech to US educational institutions and federal, state, and local governments — Google today is home to two divisions that have their own CEOs: Cloud and YouTube. “Google Public Sector” was announced today as a …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta tests Discord-like changes in Facebook Groups, adding a channels list in a left-aligned sidebar that can include audio rooms, text chats, and feeds — New Groups changes seem inspired directly by Discord — Facebook Groups are about to get some big changes, and if you've used Discord …
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
NOAA triples its weather modeling capabilities with two supercomputers built by General Dynamics at a cost of $505M, each operating at a speed of 12.1 petaflops — Last year, hurricanes hammered the Southern and Eastern US coasts at the cost of more than 160 lives and $70 billion in damages.
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Tweets: @ryanmaue, @pourmecoffee, and @nwscharlestonsc
| Conor Hale / Fierce Biotech: |
PicnicHealth, which lets patients manage their health records online and share their medical data with researchers, has raised a $60M Series C led by B Capital — Understanding a patient's lifetime journey through the healthcare system is far from a walk in the park, but PicnicHealth aims …
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Tweets: @bcapitalgroup, @stevesteinhubl, @l2k, @nogaleviner, @builtinsf, @picnichealth, and @ycombinator
| Allison Levitsky / Protocol: |
Pave, whose software analyzes HR data to help companies close pay and equity gaps, raised a $100M Series C at a $1.6B valuation and acquired rival Option Impact — Option Impact, a benchmark compensation product from Advanced-HR, has a new owner. — Pave, a fast-growing Option Impact competitor …
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Tweets: @matthewschulman, @brosenblatt4, and @mark_goldberg_
| Corinna Makris / VentureBeat: |
Normalyze, which enables security teams to continuously analyze, prioritize, and respond to cloud data threats, emerges from stealth with a $22.2M Series A — Data security has become more complex due to the proliferation of data, an explosion of microservices, rapid cloud adoption …
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| Katie Jennings / Forbes: |
Nomad Health, an online marketplace for temporary healthcare jobs, has raised $105M, bringing its total funding to $200M+, as it expands beyond travel nurses — When Alexi Nazem was a hospital doctor, he faced a mountain of paperwork and bureaucratic hurdles anytime he wanted to moonlight outside his hospital.
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Business Wire, Axios, VatorNews, Digital Health Business …, Fierce Healthcare, MedCity News, FinSMEs, hitconsultant.net, and MobiHealthNews
Tweets: @katiedjennings and @rre
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
London-based Birdie, which offers digital tools to in-home care providers to optimize their workflow, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $52M — Birdie, a UK-based caretech software-as-a-service maker, has closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by investment firm Sofina …
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A deep dive into Truth Social's struggles to build a competitive social media platform, largely because the company alienated tech talent and corporate partners — The firebrand former President Trump's social media firm has struggled to build a competitive platform.
Tweets: @mjberens1, @nandoodles, @reuters, @reuters, @reuters, and @jayrosen_nyu
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung Display acquires Germany-based OLED startup Cynora, which specialized in displays for foldable devices, for about $300M for its IP and tech — Samsung Display Co. has purchased display company Cynora GmbH for about $300 million, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
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