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softbank holdings nft paypay 4.3b Roofstock, an online marketplace for buying and selling single-family rental homes, raises a $240M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.9B valuation  —  Roofstock, an Oakland, CA-based end-to-end online platform for single-family rental investing raised $240M in Series E funding at $1.9 Billion Valuation. Source Keep visiting fansfooty.com for the latest news and updates.

paypal tel avivbased robertsdecrypt PayPal says it acquired Tel Aviv-based Curv, which facilitates secure storage of cryptocurrency, source says for nearly $200M  —  PayPal announced on Monday it has acquired Curv, a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses a novel form of cryptography to safeguard customers’ stashes of Bitcoin and other digital assets. Source Keep visiting fansfooty.com for the latest news and updates.

federal us march 1.5m usstonecyberscoop The annual US defense policy bill for 2023 contains significant spending increases for US Cyber Command and other efforts to bolster cybersecurity defenses Source Keep visiting fansfooty.com for the latest news and updates.

interview international ceo calista redmondmartin Interview with RISC-V International CEO Calista Redmond about the non-profit that oversees the open-source processor technology, industry adoption, and more  —  We speak to the head of ISA’s governing body on industry adoption, timelines, and more  —  INTERVIEW The CEO of RISC-V’s governing body … Source Keep visiting fansfooty.com for the latest news and updates.

interview maryana iskander wikimedia foundation ceo Interview with Maryana Iskander, Wikimedia Foundation’s next CEO, on the org’s transparency, handling misinformation on Wikipedia pages, and more  —  Two decades ago, Wikipedia arrived on the scene as a quirky online project that aimed to crowdsource and document all of human knowledge and history in real time. Source Keep visiting fansfooty.com for the latest news and updates.

labs ustchawla theblock terra ust 10m Terraform Labs, which runs the Terra blockchain and UST stablecoin, gifts 10M LUNA tokens, worth ~$880M, to the Luna Foundation Guard, likely to underpin UST  —  Quick Take  — Terraform Labs said it ‘gifted’ 10 million ($880 million) worth of LUNA tokens to Luna Foundation Guard. Source Keep visiting fansfooty.com for the latest news and updates.

sources stir series 100minformation Stir Money, whose software helps video and audio producers, writers, and performers manage their income, raises Series A led by a16z at $100M valuation  —  Andreessen Horowitz recently won a competitive deal to lead the Series A financing of Stir Money, a startup whose software helps video … Source Keep visiting fansfooty.com for the latest news and updates.

orlandobased stax blue star 1b ganibloomberg Orlando-based Stax, which offers flat-fee subscriptions for processing business payments, raises $245M from investors including Blue Star at a $1B+ valuation  —  Fintech’s newest unicorn doesn’t hail from San Francisco, London or Singapore.  Instead, it’s built a 10-figure valuation from central Florida. Source Keep visiting fansfooty.com for the latest news and updates.

adam mosseri instagramcarlos campbell Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to more prominently feature photos and videos in search results in the future along with traditional accounts and hashtags  —  How search works and what it will be able to do next  —  Instagram plans to more prominently feature photos and videos in search results … Source Keep visiting fansfooty.com for the latest news and updates.

indepth bfi4 kent wa An in-depth look at Amazon’s flagship BFI4 warehouse, located in Kent, WA and capable of processing over 1M items/day, which is run almost entirely by software  —  At BFI4 outside Seattle, the retailer uses algorithms and robots to ship more than a million packages a day—vastly changing the jobs of humans in the process. Source Keep visiting fansfooty.com for the latest news and updates.