Q&A with Unicode Consortium’s Jennifer Daniel, the first woman leading the Emoji Subcommittee, on inclusivity, how emoji are perceived globally, and more (Tanya Basu/MIT Technology Review)

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Q&A with Unicode Consortium’s Jennifer Daniel, the first woman leading the Emoji Subcommittee, on inclusivity, how emoji are perceived globally, and more  —  As the new head of the Emoji Subcommittee for the Unicode Consortium, Jennifer Daniel has a vision for how to make these symbols work for everyone.

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Interview with Dom Hofmann on how and why he created Loot, the communities, creativity, and NFT speculation it spawned, and the future of the project (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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Interview with Dom Hofmann on how and why he created Loot, the communities, creativity, and NFT speculation it spawned, and the future of the project  —  Loot (and Vine) creator Dom Hofmann on creating an open-source, decentralized game / financial asset / art project / metaverse (?)

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Epic trial email suggests Apple manually boosted ranking of its Files app in App Store search results for Dropbox in 2017; Apple says it was a simple mistake (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Epic trial email suggests Apple manually boosted ranking of its Files app in App Store search results for Dropbox in 2017; Apple says it was a simple mistake  —  “We are removing the manual boost and the search results should be more relevant now”  —  In 2019, facing down extensive investigations …

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Roku misses with Q3 revenue of $680M vs. $683.4 est., up 51% YoY, 56.4M active accounts, up 23% YoY and 1.3M QoQ, 18B streaming hours, up 21%; stock down 8%+ (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Roku misses with Q3 revenue of $680M vs. $683.4 est., up 51% YoY, 56.4M active accounts, up 23% YoY and 1.3M QoQ, 18B streaming hours, up 21%; stock down 8%+  —  – In its shareholder letter, the company said the slowdown is a result of “global supply chain disruptions that have impacted the U.S. TV market.”

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D1 Brands, which acquires third-party merchants selling on Amazon’s marketplace, raises $123M Series A led by CoVenture and Crossbeam Venture Partners (Margherita Beale/Forbes)

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D1 Brands, which acquires third-party merchants selling on Amazon’s marketplace, raises $123M Series A led by CoVenture and Crossbeam Venture Partners  —  New York City-based Amazon aggregator D1 Brands raised $123 million in Series A funding, the company announced Wednesday.

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Medical imaging startup Exo, which aims to commercialize its AI-powered point-of-care workflow software and handheld ultrasound device, raises $220M Series C (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

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Medical imaging startup Exo, which aims to commercialize its AI-powered point-of-care workflow software and handheld ultrasound device, raises $220M Series C  —  Exo, pronounced “echo,” raised a fresh cash infusion of $220 million in Series C financing aimed at commercializing …

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You.com, an AI-powered open source search engine, launches in beta with $20M in funding led by Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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You.com, an AI-powered open source search engine, launches in beta with $20M in funding led by Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff  —  You.com, which bills itself as the world’s first open source search engine, today announced its public beta launch along with $20 million in funding led …

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Profile of Abu Dhabi-based music streaming service Anghami, which has 1.4M paying subscribers and 70M total users, as it goes public via a $220M SPAC merger (Yinka Adegoke/Rest of World)

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Profile of Abu Dhabi-based music streaming service Anghami, which has 1.4M paying subscribers and 70M total users, as it goes public via a $220M SPAC merger  —  Anghami is a case study in how the music business is being gradually transformed from outside its core centers of New York, Los Angeles and London.

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Replicated, which sells tools that help software makers create and deploy on-premises versions of their applications, raises $50M Series C led by Owl Rock (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Replicated, which sells tools that help software makers create and deploy on-premises versions of their applications, raises $50M Series C led by Owl Rock  —  On-premises software delivery company Replicated Inc. is much richer today after grabbing $50 million in a new round of funding.

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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 (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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