December 16, 20210CommentsGerman startup financing service Re:cap, which helps convert ARR into non-dilutive investment, raises a $111.5M seed (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
December 16, 20210CommentsAdidas Originals partners with Bored Ape Yacht Club, Gmoney, and others to launch an NFT collection, including access to wearables in The Sandbox virtual world (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
December 16, 20210CommentsInternal report: employees at Wildlife Studios, a Brazilian mobile game maker valued at $3B, have repeatedly alleged gender wage imbalances and discrimination (Rest of World)
December 16, 20210CommentsRedditors grieve as Reddit sunsets its beloved annual Secret Santa exchange platform Reddit Gifts, which facilitated anonymous giving between users globally (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times)
December 16, 20210CommentsInterview with Nick Clegg, Meta’s VP of global affairs, on moving from politics to Meta, the impact of Haugen’s leaks, and the decision to ban Trump (Henry Mance/Financial Times)
December 16, 20210CommentsShareChat, a social network offered in 15 Indian languages, raises $266M led by Alkeon Capital at a $3.7B valuation (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
December 16, 20210CommentsReddit, home to more than 100K active communities visited by 50M+ people every day, has raised more than $1B in private capital and was last valued at $10B+ (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
December 16, 20210CommentsQ&A with CEO John Hanke on Niantic’s Lightship platform for building AR apps, why VR is an easier tech problem to solve than AR, the metaverse, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
December 16, 20210CommentsGoogle’s Manifest V3 rules for Chrome extensions won’t stop malware, but will hurt innovation, reduce capabilities, and harm performance (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
December 16, 20210CommentsAmazon says it will reduce its Alexa skills commission from 30% to 20% for developers who earn less than $1M per year, starting in Q2 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
