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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 stack for domestic and foreign transactions — Use the digital rupee to facilitate domestic commerce and crypto protocols to attract international investment… Source
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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 up in the last year _ In a country where many people are coming online for the first time, ShareChat makes it easy to get social. And it doesn’t bother with supporting English…. Source
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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 ankle bracelets — Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good behaviour or just a way to enrich the incarceration industry? — n 2018, William Frederick Keck … Source
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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 $80M+ led by GIC — Indonesia-based investment app Bibit has raised over US$80 million in a funding round led by GIC, with participation from Prosus Ventures and other existing investors… Source
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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 — Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $600 million fund to invest in games. The storied venture capital firm is already a big investor in games … Source
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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 upgrades to the fan and the screen — You might even be able to upgrade your fan or screen — The era of fixing your own gadgets has nearly arrived … 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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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 managing company culture — A conversation with Chris Sacca about climate investing — and Travis Kalanick. — Chris Sacca apologized for joining our Zoom call a few minutes late… Source
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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 was valued at $6.2B in 2019 — The Andreessen Horowitz and NEA-backed company is raising a private round. — Databricks — a data and AI platform … Source
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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 _ In the seven months since Lina Khan took over as chair of the Federal Trade Commission… Source
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