Dominique Luchart's Blog, page 513
December 16, 2021
Meta says a woman was groped on its Horizon Worlds platform on November 26; an internal review says she should have used its “Safe Zone” tool (Tanya Basu/MIT Technology Review)
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Recycling service Rubicon, which uses data to match waste with disposal sites, will go public via SPAC at a ~$2B valuation; Rubicon works with Apple and others (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Indian edtech company Byju’s is in advanced talks to go public via SPAC on the NYSE, raising around $4B and valuing it at about $48B (Bloomberg)
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Cockroach Labs, which makes the SQL database CockroachDB, raises a $278M Series F at a $5B valuation, after raising $160M at a $2B valuation in January (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
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Huawei’s P50 Pocket is a stylish clamshell foldable launching this month, Jon Porter

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NASA’s Perseverance rover finds organic chemicals on Mars, ,

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NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity passes 30 minutes of total air time, ,

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Malta’s status as Europe’s online gambling capital is under threat after it was added to the global money laundering watchdog FATF’s “gray list” in June (Willem Marx/Bloomberg)
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Hamburg-based Taxdoo, which offers API-based tools for e-commerce tax and accounting, raises a $64M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing total funding to $84M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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Stocktwits, a social network used by traders and investors, raises $30M, source says at a $210M valuation, led by Alameda Research and says it has 1M MAUs (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)
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