Battery Ventures leads a combined $150M+ investment in SaaSOptics and Chargify, two companies that help SaaS companies manage billing and subscriptions (Jeannette E. Garcia/San Antonio …)

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Battery Ventures leads a combined $150M+ investment in SaaSOptics and Chargify, two companies that help SaaS companies manage billing and subscriptions  —  The San Francisco office of Battery Ventures, a Boston investment firm, led a growth-equity investment worth a combined $150 million …

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Filings: Starlink has secured a license to build a satellite ground station on the Isle of Man, aiming to provide “blanket coverage” across Great Britain (Francis Agustin/Insider)

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Filings: Starlink has secured a license to build a satellite ground station on the Isle of Man, aiming to provide “blanket coverage” across Great Britain  —  – Elon Musk’s Starlink will seek to provide high-speed internet across Great Britain, the Telegraph first reported.

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AMD says Tesla’s infotainment system includes an AMD Ryzen processor and integrated graphics paired with a discrete RDNA 2 GPU, capable of playing AAA games (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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AMD says Tesla’s infotainment system includes an AMD Ryzen processor and integrated graphics paired with a discrete RDNA 2 GPU, capable of playing AAA games  —  10 teraflops of RDNA 2  —  Remember when Elon Musk claimed you’d be able to play The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 …

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JavaScript-based smart contract service Agoric, which is built on the Cosmos SDK, raises $32M in a private token sale (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

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JavaScript-based smart contract service Agoric, which is built on the Cosmos SDK, raises $32M in a private token sale  —  Quick Take  — Agoric, a smart contract platform built on the Cosmos SDK, has raised $32 million in a private token sale.  — Agoric has also launched its mainnet, an AMM, and a native stablecoin.

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YouTube says its Partner Program has 2M creators and the number of new channels joining the program in 2020 doubled YoY as channels making $100K+ grew 35% YoY (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

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YouTube says its Partner Program has 2M creators and the number of new channels joining the program in 2020 doubled YoY as channels making $100K+ grew 35% YoY  —  The program to pay its creators launched 14 years ago  —  YouTube’s Partner Program, which allows users to make money off their videos …

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In an internal memo, Apple acknowledges concerns and “misunderstandings” about its new Photo scanning feature but says it is necessary to “protect children” (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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In an internal memo, Apple acknowledges concerns and “misunderstandings” about its new Photo scanning feature but says it is necessary to “protect children”  —  Apple yesterday officially announced a range of new features coming later this year, dubbed Expanded Protections for Children.

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Bill.com, a cloud-based payments service for SMBs, has agreed to acquire expense management software provider Divvy for $2.5B in cash and stock (Luisa Beltran/Barron’s Online)

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Bill.com, a cloud-based payments service for SMBs, has agreed to acquire expense management software provider Divvy for $2.5B in cash and stock  —  The fintech Bill.com is buying Divvy, an expense reporting start-up, for $2.5 billion.  —  The deal, announced Thursday, calls for Bill.com …

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How DSP Concepts helped design Spotify’s Car Thing, leveraging DSP’s experience with GoPro to filter wind noise, isolating voice commands from music, more (Janko Roettgers/Protocol)

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How DSP Concepts helped design Spotify’s Car Thing, leveraging DSP’s experience with GoPro to filter wind noise, isolating voice commands from music, more  —  Good morning, and welcome to Protocol Next Up.  This week: how a California startup helped Spotify build Car Thing …

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Booz Allen Hamilton acquires Liberty IT Solutions for $725M; Liberty IT’s work includes IT modernization projects for govt. agencies and the healthcare industry (Jeff Clabaugh/WTOP)

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Booz Allen Hamilton acquires Liberty IT Solutions for $725M; Liberty IT’s work includes IT modernization projects for govt. agencies and the healthcare industry  —  McLean, Virginia-based Booz Allen Hamilton, already the largest government IT contractor in the D.C. region …

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How WhatsApp became a popular messaging app in the Global South, driven by high device compatibility and telecom partnerships (Shoshana Wodinsky/Gizmodo)

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How WhatsApp became a popular messaging app in the Global South, driven by high device compatibility and telecom partnerships  —  When the app suffered a six hour outage this week, millions of people’s lives were thrown into turmoil.  Why were they there at all?  —  Alerts

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