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Kuo: Apple canceled Managing a Sources: the SEC

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

PitchBook and NVCA report:
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China's Ant Group says Conference
founder Jack Ma no longer
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controls the fintech giant
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Carly Page / TechCrunch:

Rackspace plans to
discontinue its Exchange
service after confirming
hackers accessed 27
customers' personal data
during the December 2022 ransomware
attack  —  Cloud computing giant Rackspace has confirmed
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Reuters:
Huobi plans to lay off ~20%
of its 1,100 staff, citing the
“bear market”; CoinGecko:
Huobi was the eighth
largest crypto exchange by volume in
November 2022  —  Crypto exchange Huobi plans to lay
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Daniel Frankel / Next TV: CNBC:
Amazon Prime Video averaged 9.6M viewers Samsung estimates that its Q4 operating
for its first season as the exclusive rights profit fell by 69% YoY to ~$3.37B, an eight-
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Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
An Ohio man pleads guilty to stealing 712+
bitcoins seized by the IRS in a case against
his brother, who was convicted of running
money laundering service Helix
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Vishal Chawla / The Block:
A researcher was awarded a $1M bug bounty
from Immunefi for discovering a vulnerability
on three Polkadot parachains that could have
been exploited for ~$200M
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Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
Sources: Taiwan's space agency is planning a
low Earth orbit satellite communications
provider to help resist any China attacks,
inspired by Starlink in Ukraine
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BetaKit , Fortune , and Insider .  satellite network, coming in H2 2023
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Bengaluru-based KreditBee, which runs a
digital lending service for personal loans,
raised a $100M Series D extension led by
Advent, bringing the round to $200M
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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Salesforce layoffs hit Tableau harder than
other units, after CEO Mark Nelson was
ousted in late December 2022; Salesforce
acquired Tableau for $15.7B in 2019
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A profile of Shaik Salauddin, an Uber driver
turned union leader, who has become a
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founders Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, who have
resisted cooperation, via Twitter, seeking
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New York AG Letitia James files a civil
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Mashinsky, alleging he defrauded investors
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Jules Roscoe / VICE:

The FTC proposes a rule banning non-
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healthy competition in the labor and product
markets and block entrepreneurship
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