SoftBank's Arm posts record 2021 revenue

SoftBank Group Corp's chip technology firm Arm Ltd on Thursday reported record revenue for 2021, and Chief Executive Rene Haas told Reuters its business for new chip designs indicates a strong outlook. https://ift.tt/3Zp680L

Google and Samsung announce Health Connect to simplify connectivity between health and fitness apps and allow users to share their data across apps (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google and Samsung announce Health Connect to simplify connectivity between health and fitness apps and allow users to share their data across apps  —  At its Google I/O developer conference, Google and Samsung today announced Health Connect, a new initiative that will simplify …

Mark Zuckerberg gives an early look at mixed reality on Meta's Project Cambria headset; Meta announces Presence Platform to let developers make MR apps (Scott Stein/CNET)

Scott Stein / CNET:
Mark Zuckerberg gives an early look at mixed reality on Meta's Project Cambria headset; Meta announces Presence Platform to let developers make MR apps  —  A demo of Meta Cambria demonstrates how it blends AR and VR, while Quest 2 headsets could be used to develop apps in the meantime.  —  Scott Stein

São Paulo-based Dock, a full-stack payments and digital banking service, raises $110M led by Lightrock and Silver Lake Waterman at a $1.5B+ valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
São Paulo-based Dock, a full-stack payments and digital banking service, raises $110M led by Lightrock and Silver Lake Waterman at a $1.5B+ valuation  —  If there's one area that has thus far felt insulated from the global venture downturn, it's infrastructure.

Q&A with crypto skeptic Molly White, who runs Web3 Is Going Just Great, on Web3's evolving problems and cultural draw, blockchain privacy issues, and more (Thomas Stackpole/HBR.org)

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Q&A with crypto skeptic Molly White, who runs Web3 Is Going Just Great, on Web3's evolving problems and cultural draw, blockchain privacy issues, and more  —  Welcome to Web3  —  What Is Web3?  —  Why Blockchain's Ethical Stakes Are So High Web3 Will Run on Cryptocurrency What a DAO Can — and Can't — Do

Tifin, a marketplace for investments in wealth and asset management, raises a $109M Series D at an $842M valuation, 18 months after raising its Series A (Anita Ramaswamy/TechCrunch)

Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch:
Tifin, a marketplace for investments in wealth and asset management, raises a $109M Series D at an $842M valuation, 18 months after raising its Series A  —  There's been talk throughout the venture ecosystem of a funding slowdown, but AI-powered fintech platform Tifin seems to be a clear exception.