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Hell yeah, that is our Monday present. And heck sure, we’re recording Fairness dwell tomorrow morning at Disrupt. Get tremendous stoked, as a result of we’re hype. That mentioned, we did have rather a lot to get information performed for you this morning. Right here’s what Theresa and Alex went by means of this morning:

• Shares are up in lots of elements of the world, together with america, the place software program shares are ripping north because the week begins. Very type of the market to kick off Disrupt with some excellent news.
• Crypto is quieter, with costs not altering a lot and the overall vibe of the market not evolving a whit.
• Kanye West, often known as Ye, is shopping for area of interest social community Parler in a deal that can see the musician, trend mogul, and controversy generator purchase the service — however not the infrastructure that powers it. Parler isn’t very talked-about in the meanwhile and has stiff competitors from different numerous celebrity-owned (or soon-to-be celebrity-owned) social networks Fact Social and Twitter.
• It’s value noting that West purchased Parler after operating into bother with mainstream social providers over his antisemitic posts.
• Ambi Robotics raised new capital, as did Byju’s, and the Chinese language chip trade is in turmoil after america kicked it within the shins.

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