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Technology News Google spares three Area 120 R&D projects, including team working on a ‘Gen Z consumer product’ Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours The thing we thought was happening with robotic investments is definitely happening Meta will restore Trump’s Facebook account ‘in the coming weeks’ Critical Role’s second campaign will get its own Amazon animated series A network of knockoff apparel stores exposed 330,000 customer credit cards Tesla’s energy storage arm caps 2022 with ‘highest level’ of deployments ever Don’t be sucked in by AI’s head-spinning hype cycles Twitter partners with DoubleVerify and IAS on brand safety initiative amid advertiser exits Disney+ advertisers will soon get Hulu’s ad targeting capabilities Elon Musk’s Twitter hit with holocaust denial hate speech lawsuit in Germany Google to make changes to Android business terms in India after antitrust blow App downloads were stagnant in the fourth quarter, new analysis finds Dear Sophie: How do I change my L-1B to an H-1B through the lottery? Fortnite on iOS and Google Play will be 18+ starting on January 30 Google to ease Android licensing terms, permit third-party billing in India in major business revamp AtomicJar opens public beta of Testcontainers Cloud, cloud version of open source testing tool Google’s Flutter showcases new graphics capabilities, WebAssembly and RISC-V support After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts With new funding, Atomic AI envisions RNA as the next frontier in drug discovery Multiple Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams and Xbox Live suffer outage Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR Oneleaf is a self-hypnosis app that guides you through audio programs Twitter won’t force you to the ‘For You’ timeline on web anymore Tapbots launches a new Mastodon client, Ivory, after Twitter kills its Tweetbot app Financial News Qiara is a new home security service for the French market Walmart readies another $2.5 billion investment in India’s e-commerce and payments Most active investor” FJ Labs closes on $260M across two new funds Getsafe expands to France starting with home insurance Welcome to the Jungle grabs $54 million for its slick job platform Supernormal raises $10M to automatically transcribe and summarize meetings Dell has acquired cloud orchestration startup Cloudify, sources tell us for around $100M Tier Mobility and Spin lay off 100 more employees 2022 European edtech report: Smaller rounds and fewer deals, but more angel activity Tesla reports $24.3B revenue in the fourth quarter, beating Street estimates Proptech in Review: Investors predict slower growth in 2023 Crowdbotics raises $40M to help devs build apps from modular code Startups should expect more scrutiny from VCs on their hiring plans The rise of product-led sales, or why product-led growth requires a sales makeover Injective launches $150M ecosystem fund to accelerate interoperable infra and DeFi adoption Strata, a provider of identity orchestration to bridge disparate log-in procedures, raises $26M India’s gig economy drivers face bust in the country’s digital boom Gemba, a corporate VR training platform used by Coca-Cola and Pfizer, raises $18M BMW continues its love affair with EVs, backing this Bulgarian startup’s $13M A-round Chemical giant Denka dives into VC with $100M fund managed by Pegasus Tech Ventures Dubai-based accounting and financial compliance startup, Wafeq, raises $3M Japan’s Terra Drone gets $14M lift from Saudi investors Big factories, big trucks and big Musk: Tesla Q4 earnings expectations Waymo lays off staff as Alphabet announces 12,000 job cuts Tesla invests $3.6B in two new Nevada factories to build Semis and cells