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Truth Social, like Parler and Gettr, looks to be structured for mostly one-way communication, broadcast primarily to an audience of Trumpist dead-enders — Conservative alternative social networks keep making the same mistakes — I. — Today, let's talk about some of the less obvious ways … | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Trump's Truth Social has been almost entirely inaccessible in its first days due to technical glitches, a 13-hour outage, and 300,000-person waitlist — Former president Donald Trump, a longtime critic of how Democrats debuted Healthcare.gov, is facing a bungled website launch of his own.
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| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
As Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and other right-wing commentators sour on Google, some push DuckDuckGo as an alternative, arguing Google suppresses COVID-19 results — The embrace by some conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists is part of a broader effort to shift people away from Big Tech.| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
DappRadar: OpenSea's seven-day trading volume is down 37%, as active traders dropped 19% to 227,272, after a hacker used a phishing attack to steal 254 NFTs — Activity on OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for digital collectibles, likely dropped precipitously after a phishing attack …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
With Meta handicapped by Apple's ATT privacy changes, Shopify should step up to provide substitute functionality and build its own advertising network — Tobi Lütke, who famously started Shopify when he realized that the software he built to run his snowboard shop was a much bigger opportunity …
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US — Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Aporia, a full-stack machine learning monitoring service, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global — Aporia, a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps businesses monitor and explain their AI-based services, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global.
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU unveils the Data Act, setting rules on how companies and individuals can access anonymized data; AWS and Azure would be forced to make switching easier — The European Union unveiled new rules that will make it easier for users to transfer data generated from products like Amazon.com Inc.'s Alexa or a Tesla Inc. vehicle.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
BlueVoyant, which provides managed security and threat intelligence services to SMBs, raises a $250M Series D at a $1B+ valuation — Cybersecurity continues to be a pernicious and complex problem, for enterprises, and today a company that's building a multi-faceted toolkit to help them address … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon sues AppSally and Rebatest, alleging the sites had their combined 900K+ users post fake Amazon reviews to boost third-party sellers' product rankings — - Amazon on Tuesday filed lawsuits against two companies that allegedly acted as fake review brokers.
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| Peter Wayner / VentureBeat: |
Redpanda, a data streaming service formerly known as Vectorized, raises a $50M Series B led by GV — Today, Redpanda Data, the data streaming platform formerly known as Vectorized, announced a successful $50 million series B round. The company's main product offers a simpler mechanism …
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| Trilby Beresford / Hollywood Reporter: |
Backbone, which makes game controllers for the iPhone, raises a $40M Series A led by Index Ventures — Amy Schumer and Sean “Diddy” Combs also backed the fundraise, along with top tech CEOs including Discord's Jason Citron and Rec Room's Nick Fajt.
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Bloomreach, which provides e-commerce search and website creation tools, raises $175M led by Goldman Sachs at a $2.2B valuation, up from $900M in January 2021 — Bloomreach said it has raised $175 million in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, giving the e-commerce software business a $2.2 billion valuation.
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Israeli cybersecurity startup Astrix Security, which provides access management for third-party app integrations, emerges from stealth with $15M — Astrix Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that provides access management for third-party app integrations, has emerged from stealth with $15 million in funding.
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Canada-based eSentire, which provides a managed threat detection and response service, raises $325M at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $411.2M — Canadian managed detection and response startup eSentire Inc. today said it has raised $325 million in new funding to invest in research and development and hire more people.
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New York-based Timescale, which develops the open-source TimescaleDB time series database, raises a $110M Series C at a $1B+ valuation led by Tiger Global — Timescale, a New York-based creator of TimescaleDB, a relational database for time-series, raised $110M in Series C funding at a valuation of over $1 billion.
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
A court grants Waymo a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the California DMV, letting it keep autonomous vehicle tech and safety details secret — Waymo, the autonomous driving arm of Alphabet, was granted a win on Tuesday when a California court ruled it could keep certain details regarding its AV technology secret.| Reade Pickert / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: 43% of West Coast tech company job listings were posted in Texas, Virginia, NY, Georgia, and others outside the region in 2021, up from 30% in 2019 — When West Coast tech firms are hiring, they're increasingly posting jobs in Texas, Virginia and Georgia.Sponsor Posts
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