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Waybridge, which digitizes the supply chains of commodity trading companies to give them visibility into their inventory, raises $30M Series B (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)

Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Waybridge, which digitizes the supply chains of commodity trading companies to give them visibility into their inventory, raises $30M Series B — New York-based Waybridge locked up a $30 million Series B as supply chain disruptions from the Suez Canal to the pandemic continue to dominate headlines. https://bit.ly/3eOTxpg

Sources: CloutHub and FreeSpace are among the apps vying to be next platform of Trump, who "wants cash money up front" in exchange for followers he would bring (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: Sources: CloutHub and FreeSpace are among the apps vying to be next platform of Trump, who “wants cash money up front” in exchange for followers he would bring — CloutHub and Skylab Apps are among companies vying to work with the former president, who was sidelined by Facebook and Twitter https://bit.ly/3uUBhk8

Amazon says it will hire 10,000 more people in the UK, taking its total headcount in the country to 55K by the end of 2021 (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Amazon says it will hire 10,000 more people in the UK, taking its total headcount in the country to 55K by the end of 2021 — - Company said Thursday it would hire 75,000 logistics workers — U.K. jobs to be in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cambridge https://bit.ly/33J7dMf

Vitalik Buterin sells large amounts of SHIB, AKITA, and ELON tokens, sent to him by coin creators, for ~$60M worth of ETH, and donates the proceeds to charities (The Block)

The Block: Vitalik Buterin sells large amounts of SHIB, AKITA, and ELON tokens, sent to him by coin creators, for ~$60M worth of ETH, and donates the proceeds to charities — Quick Take — Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has offloaded a range of dog-themed meme tokens. https://bit.ly/3fgQp4v

Twitter has announced six acquisitions so far in 2021, the most the company has made in a calendar year since 2015, as part of its new product push (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Twitter has announced six acquisitions so far in 2021, the most the company has made in a calendar year since 2015, as part of its new product push — - Company announced six deals already in 2021, most since 2015 — Twitter CFO Segal says product clarity is part of M&A strategy https://bit.ly/33GV6PM

Sources: Colonial paid ~$5M ransom in cryptocurrency within hours of the attack, but the hackers' decrypting tool was so slow that it had to use its own backups (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Colonial paid ~$5M ransom in cryptocurrency within hours of the attack, but the hackers' decrypting tool was so slow that it had to use its own backups — - Payment came shortly after attack got underway last week — FBI discourages organizations from paying ransom to hackers https://bit.ly/3uMACB9

Review of Asus' new ZenFone 8 flagship, available for $599-$799: thoughtful and compact design, robust build, and great performance, but battery life is average (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Review of Asus' new ZenFone 8 flagship, available for $599-$799: thoughtful and compact design, robust build, and great performance, but battery life is average — The ZenFone 8 delivers flagship-level build quality and performance in a small package — After a couple of generations making phones … https://bit.ly/2RRMR0r