Event management software company Cvent is going public by merging with a SPAC at a valuation of $5.3B; Cvent was taken private in 2016 by Vista Equity Partners (Niket Nishant/Reuters)

Niket Nishant / Reuters: Event management software company Cvent is going public by merging with a SPAC at a valuation of $5.3B; Cvent was taken private in 2016 by Vista Equity Partners  —  (Reuters) -Event management software company Cvent will merge with a blank-check firm in a deal that gives it an enterprise value …

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Uncertainty about the nature of the list of 50K potential Pegasus targets created confusion and controversy, but doesn't negate the investigation's key findings (Kim Zetter/Zero Day)

Kim Zetter / Zero Day: Uncertainty about the nature of the list of 50K potential Pegasus targets created confusion and controversy, but doesn't negate the investigation's key findings  —  A series of blockbuster stories published this week around a leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers have created confusion …

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Sweetch, which has developed an AI-powered app that aims to increase patient compliance and boost health outcomes, raises $20M Series A led by Entreé Capital (Emma Betuel/TechCrunch)

Emma Betuel / TechCrunch: Sweetch, which has developed an AI-powered app that aims to increase patient compliance and boost health outcomes, raises $20M Series A led by Entreé Capital  —  You've just sat down to dinner, and your wearable device reminds you to get up and get in your steps for the day.

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China's antitrust authorities order Tencent Music to end its exclusive music licensing deals with global record labels within 30 days and impose a fine of ~$77K (Joanna Tan/CNBC)

Joanna Tan / CNBC: China's antitrust authorities order Tencent Music to end its exclusive music licensing deals with global record labels within 30 days and impose a fine of ~$77K  —  - The State Administration for Market Regulation on Saturday ordered Tencent to give up its exclusive music licensing rights …

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China orders Tencent Music to relinquish exclusive licensing deals (South China Morning Post)

South China Morning Post: China orders Tencent Music to relinquish exclusive licensing deals  —  The music arm of the Shenzhen-based company must relinquish its exclusive music rights within the next 30 days Tencent will be able to retain its exclusive deals with independent artists China's most valuable technology …

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Experts working with companies affected by the Kaseya ransomware attack say Kaseya is requiring companies to sign NDAs before providing access to decryption key (CNN)

CNN: Experts working with companies affected by the Kaseya ransomware attack say Kaseya is requiring companies to sign NDAs before providing access to decryption key  —  Washington (CNN)On Thursday, the software company Kaseya announced that it could help unlock any of its customers' systems …

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PropertyGuru, which runs real estate rental and sale listing sites in Southeast Asia, is going public on the NYSE via a SPAC merger at a valuation of ~$1.8B (Chad Bray/South China Morning Post)

Chad Bray / South China Morning Post: PropertyGuru, which runs real estate rental and sale listing sites in Southeast Asia, is going public on the NYSE via a SPAC merger at a valuation of ~$1.8B  —  PropertyGuru is Southeast Asia's biggest property technology company Singapore company is the first acquisition …

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Cloudflare accuses AWS of massive markups on egress bandwidth fees per region, estimating North American and European customers pay 80x the operational costs (The Cloudflare Blog)

The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare accuses AWS of massive markups on egress bandwidth fees per region, estimating North American and European customers pay 80x the operational costs  —  Loading...  When web hosting services first emerged in the mid-1990s, you paid for everything on a separate meter: bandwidth, storage, CPU, and memory.

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Blizzard president calls sexual harassment lawsuit "extremely troubling" in internal memo while a VP says it presents a "distorted and untrue" view of company (Kris Holt/Engadget)

Kris Holt / Engadget: Blizzard president calls sexual harassment lawsuit “extremely troubling” in internal memo while a VP says it presents a “distorted and untrue” view of company  —  Blizzard president J. Allen Brack called the allegations ‘extremely troubling.’

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Facebook announces the Passthrough API, which allows Oculus Quest 2 developers to use real-world images collected via sensors to create mixed reality apps (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Facebook announces the Passthrough API, which allows Oculus Quest 2 developers to use real-world images collected via sensors to create mixed reality apps  —  Developers will get the experimental feature with Oculus' next SDK  —  Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video …

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