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Skate Park ‘Karen’ Arrested for Assault After Altercation with Teens

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Lithuania-based kevin., which offers card-less account-to-account payments, raises a $65M Series A led by Accel and says 6K merchants in Europe already use it (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Bogota-based Habi, which offers a real estate marketplace in Mexico and Colombia, raises a $200M Series C led by Homebrew and SoftBank at a $1B+ valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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Data of EU privacy chief Didier Reynders, Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel, and dozens of EU officials found among Facebook’s leaked data set of 533M records (Politico)

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‘The IRS is in crisis.’ Here’s what to know as taxpayer advocate warns of potential for refund delays in 2022

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Skael, which provides no-code automation tools for enterprises, raises a $38M Series A led by RTP Global, bringing its total funding to $42M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Fetch Rewards, which offers a consumer loyalty and retail rewards app, raises $210M Series D led by Vision Fund 2, at a valuation over $1B (Stephanie Sorrina Beecher/Milwaukee …)

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Pivotal Commware, which develops mmWave 5G infrastructure products that make use of metamaterials tech, raises $50M Series C led by Tracker Capital Management (Alan Boyle/GeekWire)

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Billionaire Bratz creator calls a Black influencer ‘a disgrace to Black people’

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Anthony Levandowski closed his AI-focused church, Way of The Future, in 2020 and donated the church’s ~$175K funds to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

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Lidar sensor manufacturer Ouster says it will go public through a SPAC, raising up to $200M at a valuation of ~$1.9B, the fifth lidar manufacturer to do so (Reuters)

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The White House says 10M+ households have enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, funded by the bipartisan infrastructure bill, for broadband discounts (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)