Tech News TechCrunch debuts a tool to check if an Android device is one of hundreds of thousands hacked by one of several spyware apps, after its probe into TheTruthSpy (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Tech News Israel-based Agora, which helps real estate investment companies automate back-office processes, has raised a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners (Philip Russo/Commercial Observer)
Tech News TikTok introduces "Shopping Ads", letting brands place shoppable videos on the For You page, promote catalog listings, and direct users to live shopping events (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Tech News Sources: Qualcomm is planning a return to the server processors market and is seeking customers, including AWS, for a chip stemming from its purchase of Nuvia (Ian King/Bloomberg)
Tech News Tether partners with "top five" accountancy firm BDO Italia to issue monthly assurance and attestation reports of its reserves "very soon" (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
Tech News A coalition of 70 TikTok stars, with a combined 51M+ followers, pledges to cease work with Amazon until the company meets the demands of the Amazon Labor Union (Washington Post)
Tech News HiBob, which offers cloud-based HR tools, has raised a $150M Series D led by General Atlantic at a $2.45B valuation, up from $1.65B in October 2021 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Tech News Cisco beats estimates with Q4 revenue flat YoY at $13.1B, vs. $12.8B est., and a fiscal year 2023 guidance of 4% to 6% revenue growth YoY, vs. 2.3% est. (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Tech News World Bank's IFC partners with blockchain startup Chia and others to launch the Carbon Opportunities Fund, using $10M to buy and tokenize carbon credits (Reuters)
Tech News Former Nintendo female contract testers in the US describe years of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and a lack of advancement opportunities for women (Sisi Jiang/Kotaku)
