Live events service Fever raises $227M led by Goldman Sachs at a $1B+ valuation as it plans an IPO (Sarah Rappaport/Bloomberg)

Sarah Rappaport / Bloomberg:
Live events service Fever raises $227M led by Goldman Sachs at a $1B+ valuation as it plans an IPO  —  Live events platform Fever raised $227 million in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a sign that post-pandemic live events can attract investor interest.

Crypto exchange FTX's American affiliate, FTX.US, raises $400M at an $8B valuation from Paradigm, SoftBank, and others, its first outside funding (Frank Chaparro/The Block)

Frank Chaparro / The Block:
Crypto exchange FTX's American affiliate, FTX.US, raises $400M at an $8B valuation from Paradigm, SoftBank, and others, its first outside funding  —  FTX's American affiliate, FTX.US, has joined the crypto unicorn club after closing its first-ever fundraising round.

Twitter code shows it is developing Flock, which lets users create tweets for up to 150 close friends, after teasing the feature in July 2021 (Matt Wille/Input)

Matt Wille / Input:
Twitter code shows it is developing Flock, which lets users create tweets for up to 150 close friends, after teasing the feature in July 2021  —  Finally, a way to post nudes without your coworkers seeing them.  —  Twitter is developing a feature called Flock that will allow users to curate …

Sources: Nvidia is planning to abandon its Arm acquisition, as regulators scrutinize the deal; source says SoftBank is preparing an IPO for Arm (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Nvidia is planning to abandon its Arm acquisition, as regulators scrutinize the deal; source says SoftBank is preparing an IPO for Arm  —  Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress in winning approval …

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2022 Event likely to take place on February 9

Samsung has recently confirmed that it will launch its next-generation flagship smartphone series in February at the company's upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event. The smartphone has just revealed the month and there's still no word about the official launch date. However, a new leak has surfaced online revealing the expected launch date of the Galaxy S22 series. https://ift.tt/3G6bpXi

Realme X50 Pro 5G starts receiving Realme UI 3.0 beta: How to update, things to keep in mind and more

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Achilles Legends Untold: 10 things about the upcoming action RPG

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Apple iPhone SE gets Rs 10,000 discount on Flipkart ahead of rumoured affordable 5G iPhone launch

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Man files FIR against Chinese e-commerce platform Shopee over fraud

Chinese e-commerce company Shopee, facing a controversy over FDI violations in the country, has been hit by an FIR filed by a customer in Lucknow for allegedly defrauding him. https://ift.tt/3HcaRk1

New Google Pixel smartphone tipped to launch in May

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Rainbow Six Extraction: 11 types of aliens and their special attacks

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Apple extends in-app purchase exemption for online group events

In 2020, Apple announced to support apps and developers that needed to adapt services from in-person to digital as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. https://ift.tt/3As8dUy

There will be no bursting bubble, just a deflating balloon of high growth tech stock valuations returning to normal as factors that inflated them go away (M.G. Siegler/500ish)

M.G. Siegler / 500ish:
There will be no bursting bubble, just a deflating balloon of high growth tech stock valuations returning to normal as factors that inflated them go away  —  Spoiler: the “Bubble” was a Balloon.  And it's deflating.  —  Note: The below all seems fairly obvious, but given the amount …

Sources: Apple is readying the widest array of new hardware products in its history this fall; Joe Bass, head of software engineering for Apple's car team left (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is readying the widest array of new hardware products in its history this fall; Joe Bass, head of software engineering for Apple's car team left  —  Apple Inc. is nearing its first launch event of the year, with a new iPhone SE and iPad on tap.

Dealogic: Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet announced more acquisitions in 2021 than in any other year in the past decade (CNBC)

CNBC:
Dealogic: Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet announced more acquisitions in 2021 than in any other year in the past decade  —  - Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon all announced more acquisitions in 2021 than any other year in the past decade, according to Dealogic.