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San Jose-based Tredence, which offers data analytics services for retail, healthcare, and other industries, raised a $175M Series B led by Advent International (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: San Jose-based Tredence, which offers data analytics services for retail, healthcare, and other industries, raised a $175M Series B led by Advent International  —  Data science and artificial intelligence solutions startup Tredence Inc. said late today that it has closed …

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Twitter will now let Blue subscribers upload 60-minute, 1080p videos up to 2GB on the web; iOS and Android users are still limited to 10-minute, 512MB videos (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter will now let Blue subscribers upload 60-minute, 1080p videos up to 2GB on the web; iOS and Android users are still limited to 10-minute, 512MB videos  —  After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk had long promised that the company is working toward making the platform more appealing to video creators.

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Beat Backing Box for Bassists

The soul of a rock band is its rhythm section, usually consisting of a drummer and bass player. If you don’t believe that, try listening to a band where these two can’t keep proper time. Bands can often get away with sloppy guitars and vocals (this is how punk became a genre), but without that

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Filing: Meta to pay $725M to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ data (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

Nate Raymond / Reuters: Filing: Meta to pay $725M to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ data  —  Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing …

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Sources: TSMC is in advanced talks with key suppliers about setting up its first European plant in Dresden, Germany; construction could begin in early 2024 (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: TSMC is in advanced talks with key suppliers about setting up its first European plant in Dresden, Germany; construction could begin in early 2024  —  World’s largest chipmaker to send senior executives to Dresden early next year to discuss potential factory project in Germany

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Flipkart no longer owns a stake in PhonePe, the two companies say; source: PhonePe is in talks to raise $1.5B at a pre-money valuation of $12B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Flipkart no longer owns a stake in PhonePe, the two companies say; source: PhonePe is in talks to raise $1.5B at a pre-money valuation of $12B  —  Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart no longer owns a stake in payments firm PhonePe.  The two said on Friday that they have completed …

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Microsoft files a rebuttal to the FTC’s lawsuit to block its Activision deal, saying the deal won’t hurt competition and that it isn’t the top game developer (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)

Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Microsoft files a rebuttal to the FTC’s lawsuit to block its Activision deal, saying the deal won’t hurt competition and that it isn’t the top game developer  —  Software giant files documents opposing claims that transaction would harm competition in videogame industry

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