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PayPal reports Q3 revenue of $6.18B, up 13% YoY, vs $6.23B est., Venmo payment volume up 36% YoY to $60B, says Venmo users can make Amazon purchases next year (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

PayPal reports Q3 revenue of $6.18B, up 13% YoY, vs $6.23B est., Venmo payment volume up 36% YoY to $60B, says Venmo users can make Amazon purchases next year  — …

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5G on Your iPhone Comes at a Cost. How to Eliminate Battery Anxiety

With the introduction of the third-generation iPhone SE, all of Apple’s current iPhone models support 5G wireless. The good news is, that means they can take advantage of faster cellular data networks. The…

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Bitcoin Cash briefly spiked 4.6% on Friday after a fake PR Newswire press release, which also appeared on Kroger.com, claimed Kroger will begin accepting it (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Bitcoin Cash briefly spiked 4.6% on Friday after a fake PR Newswire press release, which also appeared on Kroger.com, claimed Kroger will begin accepting it  —  The cryptocurrency rose over…

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UK-based online car retailer Cazoo raises $630M through a two percent sale via convertible senior notes, led by Viking Global Investors (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

UK-based online car retailer Cazoo raises $630M through a two percent sale via convertible senior notes, led by Viking Global Investors  —  UK-based online car retailer Cazoo has raised $630…

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Profile of Gloo, which has ~245M profiles on Americans and is used by 30K+ churches, or 10% of US churches, to target ad campaigns at people facing a crisis (Khadeeja Safdar/Wall Street Journal)

Profile of Gloo, which has ~245M profiles on Americans and is used by 30K+ churches, or 10% of US churches, to target ad campaigns at people facing a crisis  — …

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Nightingale Open Science, a free-to-use 40TB medical imagery data set, could help train AI to predict medical conditions earlier, triage better, and save lives (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Nightingale Open Science, a free-to-use 40TB medical imagery data set, could help train AI to predict medical conditions earlier, triage better, and save lives  —  Nightingale Open Science data show…

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Every Masked Singer Revealed in Season 4

In 2020, we all need some reminders that the world is still turning. Somehow, the idea that people still go on live TV to do completely ridiculous things, such as…

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a16z names Sriram Krishnan as its newest GP, after roles at Facebook, Snap, and Twitter; Krishnan has been consulting for nine months on a “community project” (Marc Andreessen/Andreessen Horowitz)

a16z names Sriram Krishnan as its newest GP, after roles at Facebook, Snap, and Twitter; Krishnan has been consulting for nine months on a “community project”  —  Welcome, Sriram Krishnan,…

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A record $14B flowed to criminal crypto addresses in 2021, up from $7.8B in 2020, driven by DeFi scams; total transaction volume reached $15.8T, up 567% YoY (Henry Updegrave/Chainalysis)

A record $14B flowed to criminal crypto addresses in 2021, up from $7.8B in 2020, driven by DeFi scams; total transaction volume reached $15.8T, up 567% YoY  —  This blog…

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SEC filing: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick would get $15M if Microsoft fires him without cause; Phil Spencer began acquisition talks three days after WSJ’s exposé (Stephen Totilo/Axios)

SEC filing: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick would get $15M if Microsoft fires him without cause; Phil Spencer began acquisition talks three days after WSJ’s exposé  —  There are big potential…

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