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Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Equinix acquires West African data center company MainOne, which services businesses in more than 10 African countries, for $320M — The African tech scene woke up today to exciting news about the landmark acquisition of MainOne, one of the region's most important...

EdgeConneX is expected to complete a new data center campus in Brussels, Belgium in early 2023.Data Center Knowledge https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1862772&goto=newpost

Ireland’s embattled data protection regulator, the DPC, has announced the submission of a draft decision sent to other EU DPAs Friday in relation to a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) investigation into Instagram’s handling of children’s data that was opened over a year ago.The DPC...

Twitter is trying out some changes to the way that users report tweets that they believe might break Twitter’s rules.Like most social media companies, Twitter has long relied on user reporting to flag potentially policy-violating tweets. But in its new imagining of that system those reports...

Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: YipitData, which analyzes alternative data for Wall Street and corporate clients, raises up to $475M Series E from Carlyle Group at a $1B+ valuation — YipitData valued at more than $1 billion in fundraising round. — Carlyle Group Inc. is investing up to $475...

Tim Keary / VentureBeat: Liqid, which develops adaptive resource management tools for data centers, raises a $100M Series C from and Lightrock and DH Capital — Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic made remote working a top priority for many organizations, which were forced to enable...

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Grip Security, which helps companies protect data in SaaS apps, raises a $25M Series A led by Intel Capital — Grip Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps enterprises protect their data in SaaS applications, today announced that it has...

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Heap, which automates company analytics by collecting and organizing customer behavioral data, raises a $110M Series D at a $960M valuation — Heap, a platform for digital analytics, today announced that it raised $110 million in a financing round led by Sixth Street...

Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: GitGuardian, a real-time monitoring platform that helps enterprises manage data leaks, raises a $44M Series B led by Eurazeo, bringing its total funding to $56M — GitGuardian, which today announced raising a $44 million series B funding round, plans to build upon...

Bloomberg: NFT data shows price differences based on race and gender; the average minimum sale price of darker-skinned male CryptoPunks trails lighter ones — Price differences based on race and gender are emerging among the CryptoPunk NFTs. What do the disparities mean?

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Robert Lee Hotz / Wall Street Journal: A look at efforts to manage climate data, gathered from satellites, aircraft, and ocean buoys, as US archives are expected to pass 650PB over the next decade — As earth-observing satellites, aircraft and ocean buoys churn out ever-rising amounts of...

The Markup: Sources: Life360, a family safety app used by 33M people, has sold users' precise location since 2016 and is one of the data broker industry's top sources — The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people's...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile all have programs that collect additional data, like app usage and web history, on their customers, and they are generally opt-out — Verizon says it's to better “understand your interests” — The My Verizon app might be collecting information...

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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for December 3, 2021! I don’t know about you, but after watching stocks get hammered all day, I mostly want to snag a nap and...

Zindi is all about using AI to solve real world problems for companies and individuals. And the South Africa-based crowd-solving startup has done that over the last three years they have been in existence.Just last year a team of data scientists under Zindi used machine learning to improve air...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: DOJ charges an ex-employee of IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti with data theft and for attempting to extort his employer while posing as a whistleblower and a hacker — Nickolas Sharp, a former employee of networking device maker Ubiquiti, was arrested and charged...

Yinka Adegoke / Rest of World: A look at China's extensive tech investments in Africa, including undersea cables, data centers, and fintech apps, as part of its “Digital Silk Road” initiative — As the Chinese “tech stack” leads from undersea cables to smartphones and fintech apps, concerns...

Two years ago at AWS re:Invent, then AWS CEO Andy Jassy made it clear that he was tired of the slow pace of change and he wanted to find ways to get companies to move to the cloud faster. At yesterday’s opening keynote, in fact, new AWS CEO Adam Selipsky stated that the pace is still pretty...