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Chrissy Teigen, who had 13.7M Twitter followers and was once called “unofficial mayor of Twitter” by the company, quits the platform after years of harassment (Kim Lyons/The Verge)
Chrissy Teigen, who had 13.7M Twitter followers and was once called “unofficial mayor of Twitter” by the company, quits the…
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Curebase, which provides software and hardware for clinical trials, raises a $40M Series B (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
Curebase, which provides software and hardware for clinical trials, raises a $40M Series B — The medical world has come…
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St-Rémy switches to recycled materials for plastic bottles
St-Rémy is making the switch to recycled packaging materials for its products that are bottled in plastic. The 50cl St-Rémy…
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NonFungible: Axie Infinity had $3.5B in NFT transactions in 2021, almost two thirds of the blockchain gaming industry; NBA Top Shot had $827M and Loot $242M (Zhiyuan Sun/Cointelegraph)
NonFungible: Axie Infinity had $3.5B in NFT transactions in 2021, almost two thirds of the blockchain gaming industry; NBA Top…
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Q&A with law professor Tonya Evans on the relationship between legal frameworks and crypto, including copyright and NFTs, contract law and DAOs, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
Q&A with law professor Tonya Evans on the relationship between legal frameworks and crypto, including copyright and NFTs, contract law…
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Meta says Reels takes up 20%+ of the time that people spend on Instagram, and says that video, overall, makes up 50% of the time that users spend on Facebook (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Meta says Reels takes up 20%+ of the time that people spend on Instagram, and says that video, overall, makes…
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How Aurora, now the owner of Uber’s ATG, is moving to bring its self-driving tech to market via deals with Volvo in trucking, Uber and Toyota in taxis, more (Ira Boudway/Bloomberg)
How Aurora, now the owner of Uber’s ATG, is moving to bring its self-driving tech to market via deals with…
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Profile of the trader known as DeepFuckingValue on r/WallStreetBets, who began investing in GameStop and explaining why in YouTube videos starting in mid-2019 (Wall Street Journal)
Profile of the trader known as DeepFuckingValue on r/WallStreetBets, who began investing in GameStop and explaining why in YouTube videos…
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Australian BPNL company Zip acquires US-based rival Sezzle for $491M; Zip reported a $214.3M loss in H2 2021 (Clancy Yeates/Sydney Morning Herald)
Australian BPNL company Zip acquires US-based rival Sezzle for $491M; Zip reported a $214.3M loss in H2 2021 — Normal…
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Profile of Discovery+, which has hit 12M paid subscriptions globally and offers a reality TV-focused catalog with 55K episodes, rivaling Netflix in sheer volume (Ben Smith/New York Times)
Profile of Discovery+, which has hit 12M paid subscriptions globally and offers a reality TV-focused catalog with 55K episodes, rivaling…
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