Overhaul, whose software allows companies to have full visibility of their supply chain in real time, raises $35M Series B led by Macquarie Capital (Cassidy Ritter/Built In Austin)

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Overhaul, whose software allows companies to have full visibility of their supply chain in real time, raises $35M Series B led by Macquarie Capital  —  Supply chain startup Overhaul announced Tuesday it raised a $35 million Series B round.  This brings the company’s total funding to $55 million …

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Q&A: Alec MacGillis, author of the book “Fulfillment”, on working conditions in Amazon warehouses, the filming of “Nomadland” inside Amazon warehouses, and more (Hirsh Chitkara/Protocol)

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Q&A: Alec MacGillis, author of the book “Fulfillment”, on working conditions in Amazon warehouses, the filming of “Nomadland” inside Amazon warehouses, and more  —  “Regional inequality was making parts of the country incomprehensible to one another …

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Estonian ride hailing startup Bolt, formerly known as Taxify, raises $713M at a ~$4.75B valuation, led by Sequoia, Tekne, and Ghisallo (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

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Estonian ride hailing startup Bolt, formerly known as Taxify, raises $713M at a ~$4.75B valuation, led by Sequoia, Tekne, and Ghisallo  —  – Estonian ride-hailing start-up Bolt has raised $713 million in fresh funding to push into the rapidly-growing online grocery delivery industry.

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Trump’s last post on Facebook, which now has 700K+ comments, has become a weird internet memorial where his fans and critics still converge to argue and troll (Brian Contreras/Los Angeles Times)

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Trump’s last post on Facebook, which now has 700K+ comments, has become a weird internet memorial where his fans and critics still converge to argue and troll  —  At first glance, Donald Trump’s Facebook page seems like it’s been dead for months.  —  The former president’s last post …

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US DOJ has charged a Latvian woman who it says was a programmer in a gang that helped develop TrickBot malware; the woman was arrested in Miami on February 6 (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

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US DOJ has charged a Latvian woman who it says was a programmer in a gang that helped develop TrickBot malware; the woman was arrested in Miami on February 6  —  The US Department of Justice has arraigned in court today a Latvian woman who was part of the Trickbot malware crew …

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Chris Sacca on his move to climate investing, Jack Dorsey’s inability to confront big questions, and Travis Kalanick’s weakness in managing company culture (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

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Chris Sacca on his move to climate investing, Jack Dorsey’s inability to confront big questions, and Travis Kalanick’s weakness in managing company culture  —  A conversation with Chris Sacca about climate investing — and Travis Kalanick.  —  Chris Sacca apologized for joining our Zoom call a few minutes late.

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Lyft reports Q1 revenue of $609M, up 7% QoQ and down 36% YoY, vs $558.7M est., active riders of 13.49M vs 12.8M est., and net loss of $427M, up from $398M YoY (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)

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Lyft reports Q1 revenue of $609M, up 7% QoQ and down 36% YoY, vs $558.7M est., active riders of 13.49M vs 12.8M est., and net loss of $427M, up from $398M YoY  —  – Ride-hailing company Lyft beat on the top and bottom lines and exceeded Wall Street’s rider expectations for its first quarter.

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Insurify, which has built an ML-based virtual insurance agent to help people get better rates, raises $100M Series B led by Motive Partners (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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Insurify, which has built an ML-based virtual insurance agent to help people get better rates, raises $100M Series B led by Motive Partners  —  How many of us have not switched insurance carriers because we don’t want to deal with the hassle of comparison shopping?  —  A lot, I’d bet.

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Sources: DOJ’s criminal antitrust prosecutor Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel is expected to lead FTC’s antitrust enforcement unit handling Facebook and Amazon cases (Josh Sisco/The Information)

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Sources: DOJ’s criminal antitrust prosecutor Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel is expected to lead FTC’s antitrust enforcement unit handling Facebook and Amazon cases  —  A little-known criminal antitrust prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel …

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Autonomous air taxi startup Wisk Aero, a joint venture between Boeing and Kitty Hawk, raises $450M from Boeing (Sylvia Pfeifer/Financial Times)

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Autonomous air taxi startup Wisk Aero, a joint venture between Boeing and Kitty Hawk, raises $450M from Boeing  —  US manufacturer’s Wisk investment is latest sign of investor appetite in emerging sector  —  Boeing has committed another $450m in an existing joint venture focused …

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