DuckDuckGo says it raised $100M+ in “mainly secondary investment” in late 2020 from WhatsApp founder Brian Acton, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and others (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

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DuckDuckGo says it raised $100M+ in “mainly secondary investment” in late 2020 from WhatsApp founder Brian Acton, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and others  —  Privacy tech continues cooking on gas.  To wit: Non-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo has just revealed that it beefed …

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Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads raises a $313M Series A co-led by Source Code Capital, Shanghai Guosheng Group, and Bohai Sheng Industrial Fund Management (Liya Su/DealStreetAsia)

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Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads raises a $313M Series A co-led by Source Code Capital, Shanghai Guosheng Group, and Bohai Sheng Industrial Fund Management  —  Moore Threads, a Chinese semiconductor player which provides graphics processing units (GPUs), announced on Thursday that it has raked …

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Sources: in a major leadership shakeup at Magic Leap, its CTO, COO, and chief patent officer are all set to leave, while its former CMO is being hired back (Hugh Langley/Insider)

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 Hugh Langley / Insider:
Sources: in a major leadership shakeup at Magic Leap, its CTO, COO, and chief patent officer are all set to leave, while its former CMO is being hired back  —  – Magic Leap is losing three of its top executives in a leadership shake-up, Insider has learned.  — The CTO, COO, and chief patent officer will exit.

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Two Egyptians living in exile had their iPhones compromised in June 2021 using Predator spyware built by North Macedonian developer Cytrox (The Citizen Lab)

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Two Egyptians living in exile had their iPhones compromised in June 2021 using Predator spyware built by North Macedonian developer Cytrox  —  Key Findings  — Two Egyptians—exiled politician Ayman Nour and the host of a popular news program (who wishes to remain anonymous) …

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Mozilla launches Rally, a Firefox plugin that lets users share browsing data with researchers studying the web, starting with researchers from Princeton (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

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Mozilla launches Rally, a Firefox plugin that lets users share browsing data with researchers studying the web, starting with researchers from Princeton  —  By this point in the internet’s history, most of us have come to terms with the fact that accessing the web involves giving up information …

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Apple’s marketing head Greg Joswiak and hardware chief John Ternus on M1 chip in iPad Pro, Liquid Retina XDR display, Center Stage camera capability, and more (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)

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Apple’s marketing head Greg Joswiak and hardware chief John Ternus on M1 chip in iPad Pro, Liquid Retina XDR display, Center Stage camera capability, and more  —  Apple SVPs chat about the iPad Pro, merging with the Mac and its new unified processor strategy

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Facebook buys Unit 2 Games, a studio behind Roblox-like Crayta game platform, says it will integrate Crayta’s toolset into Facebook Gaming’s cloud platform (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)

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Facebook buys Unit 2 Games, a studio behind Roblox-like Crayta game platform, says it will integrate Crayta’s toolset into Facebook Gaming’s cloud platform  —  Facebook has been making plenty of one-off virtual reality studio acquisitions lately, but today the company announced …

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Cloudflare, which was sued by “patent troll” Sable Networks, is offering a $100K bounty to those who can find evidence of prior art on Sable Networks’ patents (Doug Kramer/The Cloudflare Blog)

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Cloudflare, which was sued by “patent troll” Sable Networks, is offering a $100K bounty to those who can find evidence of prior art on Sable Networks’ patents  —  Here we go again.  —  On March 15, Cloudflare was sued by a patent troll called Sable Networks …

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Analysis of e-receipts from 1M+ consumers shows that the average Uber and Lyft fares in the US were 50% higher in July 2021 compared with January 2020 (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)

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Analysis of e-receipts from 1M+ consumers shows that the average Uber and Lyft fares in the US were 50% higher in July 2021 compared with January 2020  —  Data show average fares were at a record in July despite improvement in pandemic-driven shortage of drivers

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MFine, a Bangalore-based on-demand healthcare platform, raises $48M Series C co-led by Moore Strategic Ventures and BEENEXT, sources say at a $450M+ valuation (Tarush Bhalla/Livemint)

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MFine, a Bangalore-based on-demand healthcare platform, raises $48M Series C co-led by Moore Strategic Ventures and BEENEXT, sources say at a $450M+ valuation  —  BENGALURU: Digital health platform MFine has raised $48 million as part of its Series C round, co-led by Moore Strategic Ventures and BEENEXT.

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