Coinbase amends claims on its website that USDC is backed 1:1 by USD, after Circle disclosed in July that commercial paper and other assets back USDC (Joe Light/Bloomberg)

Joe Light / Bloomberg:
Coinbase amends claims on its website that USDC is backed 1:1 by USD, after Circle disclosed in July that commercial paper and other assets back USDC  —  - Some assets of second-largest stablecoin carry default risk  — Coinbase as late as this month claimed coin is backed by cash

Singapore-headquartered Parcel Perform, which offers shipping logistics tools to e-commerce companies, raises $20M Series A led by Cambridge Capital (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Singapore-headquartered Parcel Perform, which offers shipping logistics tools to e-commerce companies, raises $20M Series A led by Cambridge Capital  —  Singapore-headquartered Parcel Perform, which connects merchants with e-commerce carriers and provides shipment tracking features …

Predictive sales startup People.ai raises $100M from Mubadala Investment and Akkadian Ventures at a $1.1B valuation, up from $400M in 2019 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Predictive sales startup People.ai raises $100M from Mubadala Investment and Akkadian Ventures at a $1.1B valuation, up from $400M in 2019  —  - Silicon Valley's People.ai valued at $1.1 billion after round  — Mubadala's AlBanna sees ‘multiple winners’ in sales software

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Facebook open sources Time Card, its PCIe-based timekeeping tool that uses atomic clocks and navigation satellites to keep devices and data centers in sync (Stephen Shankland/CNET)

Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Facebook open sources Time Card, its PCIe-based timekeeping tool that uses atomic clocks and navigation satellites to keep devices and data centers in sync  —  The social network giant gives away its hardware and software designs that can keep data centers humming efficiently.