Peter Thiel says he is a pro-Bitcoin maximalist, but Bitcoin threatens fiat money and might be used by China to undercut the US dollar’s reserve currency status (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
Peter Thiel says he is a pro-Bitcoin maximalist, but Bitcoin threatens fiat money and might be used by China to undercut the US dollar’s reserve currency status — Peter Thiel,…
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Report: GitHub fired an employee who used the term “Nazis” in an internal Slack during the US Capitol riot; ~200 staff signed a letter questioning the firing (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge)
Report: GitHub fired an employee who used the term “Nazis” in an internal Slack during the US Capitol riot; ~200 staff signed a letter questioning the firing — Roughly 200…
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Opinion: How to make money from stocks — while you sleep
The early bird doesn’t just get the worm. It also gets the bulk of the stock market’s profits. That’s because most of the S&P 500’s SPX, +1.18% gains occur overnight….
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Sources: Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is raising $100M in a token sale from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, a previous backer, and Khosla, at a $3B valuation (The Information)
Sources: Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is raising $100M in a token sale from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, a previous backer, and Khosla, at a $3B valuation — Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency startup…
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How Gwyneth Paltrow, Mila Kunis, and others are pushing women to invest in NFTs, which critics see as a form of self-serving feminism centered on white women (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
How Gwyneth Paltrow, Mila Kunis, and others are pushing women to invest in NFTs, which critics see as a form of self-serving feminism centered on white women — Gwyneth Paltrow…
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European on-demand scooter service Dott adds a $70M extension to its $85M Series B from April 2021 led by abrdn and Sofina (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
European on-demand scooter service Dott adds a $70M extension to its $85M Series B from April 2021 led by abrdn and Sofina — Urban mobility startup Dott has raised an…
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Boston-based HqO, which offers a SaaS platform to connect office buildings’ tenant-facing tech and amenities, raises $60M Series C (E.B. Solomont/The Real Deal New York)
Boston-based HqO, which offers a SaaS platform to connect office buildings’ tenant-facing tech and amenities, raises $60M Series C — Cushman & Wakefield, JLL among investors … Commercial real estate…
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A deep dive: how Apple uses iOS WebKit monopoly to strip-mine and sabotage the web, hurting all browser engine projects and draining the web of future potential (Alex Russell/Infrequently Noted)
A deep dive: how Apple uses iOS WebKit monopoly to strip-mine and sabotage the web, hurting all browser engine projects and draining the web of future potential — Gentle reader,…
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Match Group Q1: revenue of $799M, up 20% YoY, vs $794M est., operating income up 10% YoY to $208M, CEO Shar Dubey to step down but stay on board; stock down 5%+ (Reuters)
Match Group Q1: revenue of $799M, up 20% YoY, vs $794M est., operating income up 10% YoY to $208M, CEO Shar Dubey to step down but stay on board; stock…
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Report: TPG Capital to buy privileged access management vendor Thycotic for $1.4B; TPG will merge Thycotic with its recently acquired competitor Centrify (Michael Novinson/CRN)
Report: TPG Capital to buy privileged access management vendor Thycotic for $1.4B; TPG will merge Thycotic with its recently acquired competitor Centrify — The deal between TPG and privileged access…
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