December 23, 20210CommentsBeijing-based autonomous driving startup Haomo.AI raises a $157M Series A at a $1B+ valuation from GL Ventures, Meituan, Qualcomm Ventures, and others (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
December 23, 20210CommentsBengaluru-based Jumbotail, a B2B e-commerce company that supplies groceries to mom-and-pop stores, raises an $85M Series C led by Artal Asia (The Economic Times)
December 23, 20210CommentsMarc Andreessen blocks Jack Dorsey on Twitter following his tweets that were critical of a16z and Web3, Dorsey then tweets “I’m officially banned from web3” (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
December 23, 20210CommentsTencent plans to issue nearly all of its shares in JD.com worth $16.37B to shareholders as a dividend, reducing its stake from 17% to about 2.3% (Reuters)
December 23, 20210CommentsBengaluru-based B2B online seafood marketplace Captain Fresh raises a $40M Series B co-led by Tiger Global and Prosus Ventures at a $200M post-money valuation (Pranav Balakrishnan/The Economic Times)
December 23, 20210CommentsIn a note to employees, Bosworth envisions Meta’s deep compatibility with blockchain, says it could have “profound impacts on our industry over the next decade” (Ryan Mac/New York Times)
December 23, 20210CommentsLabor group seeking to organize warehouse workers at Amazon’s Staten Island facility refiles its union petition with the NLRB, after withdrawing it in November (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
December 23, 20210CommentsIn a letter, 13 Democratic senators ask Zuckerberg why Facebook removed misinformation safeguards ahead of Jan. 6, citing documents leaked by Frances Haugen (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
December 22, 20210CommentsThe US CFPB orders online payday lender LendUp to shutter lending operations after finding it repeatedly lied to and illegally cheated its customers (Katanga Johnson/Reuters)
