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Sources: digital imaging company Shutterfly has held talks to go public via SPAC at a valuation between $4B-$5B, including debt (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: digital imaging company Shutterfly has held talks to go public via SPAC at a valuation between $4B-$5B, including debt — Discussions come less than two years after Apollo took the online-photo-book company private
Screenshots of a beta version of Fireside, Mark Cuban’s podcasting app, suggest it will be a hybrid between Spotify’s Anchor and Clubhouse (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
Ashley Carman / The Verge: Screenshots of a beta version of Fireside, Mark Cuban’s podcasting app, suggest it will be a hybrid between Spotify’s Anchor and Clubhouse — The app is in beta on iOS — Last
Sources: at least 30K US organizations have been hacked by an aggressive Chinese espionage group exploiting unpatched flaws in Microsoft’s Exchange Server (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Sources: at least 30K US organizations have been hacked by an aggressive Chinese espionage group exploiting unpatched flaws in Microsoft’s Exchange Server — At least 30,000 organizations across the United States
Pitchbook: the median pre-investment valuation for a Series A round in the US has increased sixfold to $37M since 2010 (Kate Clark/The Information)
Kate Clark / The Information: Pitchbook: the median pre-investment valuation for a Series A round in the US has increased sixfold to $37M since 2010 — Financial software developer Orum, which disclosed a seed round over the
Bitcoin mining startup Bitfury merges with a SPAC to create a US-based company called Cipher Mining, raising $595M at a valuation of $2B (Kevin Reynolds/CoinDesk)
Kevin Reynolds / CoinDesk: Bitcoin mining startup Bitfury merges with a SPAC to create a US-based company called Cipher Mining, raising $595M at a valuation of $2B — The mining SPAC has an expected value of $2
A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets (Todd Feathers/The Guardian)
Todd Feathers / The Guardian: A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets — Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good
With Tidal, Square may give artists more control over the revenue streams they create, offer advances, royalty processing, and more traditional label services (Benjamin Pimentel/Protocol)
Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol: With Tidal, Square may give artists more control over the revenue streams they create, offer advances, royalty processing, and more traditional label services — It was a big week for Jack Dorsey, who
Oppo becomes the top smartphone brand in China, reaching a market share of 21% in January, followed by Vivo at 20% and Huawei, Apple, and Xiaomi at 16% each (Varun Mishra/Counterpoint Research)
Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: Oppo becomes the top smartphone brand in China, reaching a market share of 21% in January, followed by Vivo at 20% and Huawei, Apple, and Xiaomi at 16% each — Beijing, London,
A look at Tim Wu’s work on tech policy issues, from coining the term “net neutrality” to stints at NY AG’s office, the FTC and Obama’s NEC, and more (Emily Birnbaum/Protocol)
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: A look at Tim Wu’s work on tech policy issues, from coining the term “net neutrality” to stints at NY AG’s office, the FTC and Obama’s NEC, and more — For Big Tech
US indicts John McAfee for fraud and money laundering over an alleged $13M cryptocurrency “pump-and-dump” scheme (Adam Klasfeld/Law & Crime)
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime: US indicts John McAfee for fraud and money laundering over an alleged $13M cryptocurrency “pump-and-dump” scheme — Antivirus software mogul John McAfee, who has been awaiting extradition from Spain on tax
Sources: India threatened to jail Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter employees if the companies don’t comply with takedown requests related to farmer protests (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: India threatened to jail Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter employees if the companies don’t comply with takedown requests related to farmer protests — Country flexes new powers over big platforms while companies are counting
Eco, a personal finance app that offers yields of 2.5% to 5% and cash-backs for shopping at Amazon, Uber, and Doordash, raises $26M led by a16z crypto (Robert Hackett/Fortune)
Robert Hackett / Fortune: Eco, a personal finance app that offers yields of 2.5% to 5% and cash-backs for shopping at Amazon, Uber, and Doordash, raises $26M led by a16z crypto — Our mission to make business
Leaked interface shows that Twitter’s “undo send” feature may be a button that also doubles as a progress bar showing how much time a user has to undo (Jon Porter/The Verge)
Jon Porter / The Verge: Leaked interface shows that Twitter’s “undo send” feature may be a button that also doubles as a progress bar showing how much time a user has to undo — A work-in-progress interface
Reddit hires Drew Vollero as its first chief financial officer to prepare the company for an eventual IPO (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
Mike Isaac / New York Times: Reddit hires Drew Vollero as its first chief financial officer to prepare the company for an eventual IPO — The addition of Drew Vollero, formerly of Mattel and Snap, is a
Tim Wu, an outspoken critic of Big Tech, is joining the National Economic Council as a special assistant to President Biden for tech and competition policy (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Tim Wu, an outspoken critic of Big Tech, is joining the National Economic Council as a special assistant to President Biden for tech and competition policy — Tim Wu’s appointment to