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Parler becomes the number one app on Apple’s App Store in the US; Gab claims it is seeing 10,000+ new users sign up every hour (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)

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Box says it has acquired Dutch cloud-based e-signature startup SignRequest for $55M and plans to launch Box Sign in summer 2021 (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

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Meta brings back Kevin Martin, a Republican, as its head of US public policy, after failing to find a Democrat to lead its lobbying team (Sylvia Varnham O’Regan/The Information)

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UK Court of Appeal rules that UK prosecutors can use messages uncovered when French and Dutch police hacked EncroChat as evidence against criminal defendants (Gareth Corfield/The Register)

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Ometria, a CRM service that uses AI to let brands and retailers personalize marketing messages, raises a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to $75M+ (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

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Tech Interview with Samsung VP Jaeyeon Jung on the new Galaxy SmartTag and how it fits into the SmartThings ecosystem, which as of December had 66M active users (Carolina Milanesi/Fast Company)

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Ant Money, which operates three finance apps, including micro-income app ATM and gamer savings app Blast, raises a $20M Series A (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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Dream Games, which develops mobile puzzle games, raises $50M Series A led by Index Ventures, the largest Series A raised by a Turkish startup to date (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Trump’s last post on Facebook, which now has 700K+ comments, has become a weird internet memorial where his fans and critics still converge to argue and troll (Brian Contreras/Los Angeles Times)

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Bitcoin falls to ~$43.7K after an all-time high of ~$68K in November 2021, after the Federal Reserve confirmed plans to increase interest rates in March 2022 (Jordan Finneseth/Cointelegraph)