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Tel Aviv-based Cider Security, which helps enterprises identify security risks in their DevOps pipelines, announces a $32M Series A led by Tiger Global (Tim Keary/VentureBeat)

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Triller CEO now says the company never inflated user numbers and that Triller should even be valued at over $10B based on claims made in a Billboard report (Sean Burch/The Wrap)

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Madrid-based Playtomic, an app for booking tennis and padel courts and connecting 1M+ active players in 34 countries, raises a €56M Series C led by GP Bullhound (Patricia Allen/EU-Startups)

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A profile of Kuaishou, a Chinese TikTok rival, which is likely to hit a valuation of over $60B during its IPO this week, roughly one-third of ByteDance (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)

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Sources: South Korea’s largest travel app Yanolja is in talks for a dual IPO listing in Seoul and overseas, aiming for a $4B+ valuation (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)

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John Pinette, Meta’s VP of Global Communications, leaves the company; he had overseen the company’s public relations teams since 2019 (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

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Cloud backup service Rewind raises $15M Series A led by Inovia Capital (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit)

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Experts say Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature will damage Facebook’s core business; the feature will limit Facebook’s data collection from 85K+ iOS apps (Wall Street Journal)

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UK-based Bloom & Wild, an online florist that delivers flowers sourced directly from growers, raises $102M Series D led by General Catalyst for expansion in EU (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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After failing to appear at its launch event, Samsung says the Exynos 2200 will be unveiled alongside a new smartphone, likely in late January or February (Kim Eun-jin/BusinessKorea)