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Etsy beats with Q4 revenue of $717M, up 16.2% YoY, vs. $685M est., and 2021 revenue of $2.3B, up 35% YoY, with 96.3M active buyers, up 17.6% YoY; stock up 20%+  —  – Shares of Etsy soared as…

Microsoft warns users that a new state-sponsored threat actor is exploiting four previously undisclosed security flaws in Exchange Server; patches are available  —  Microsoft is warning customers that a new China state-sponsored threat actor is exploiting four previously…

Chinese edtech company New Oriental fired 60,000 workers in 2021 after revenue fell 80%, the biggest layoffs disclosed since China began its tech crackdown  —  – New Oriental saw an 80% slump in sales, chairman says  — It…

Tinybird, which runs real-time analytics APIs for companies, raises a $37M Series A led by CRV and Singular Ventures  —  Tinybird has raised a $37 million Series A round led by CRV and Singular Ventures.  Your company may…

Sources: Indonesia’s GoTo raises ~$1.1B in its IPO at 338 rupiah per share; 10 other companies have raised about $172M in IPOs in Jakarta this year, up 30%+ YoY  —  GoTo Group, an Indonesian startup giant, raised about…

Profile of Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta, who since the pandemic started has overseen three consecutive quarters of positive cash flow, a first for the company  —  The Business of What We Eat and How It’s Made  —  The…

CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb is suspending all operations in Russia and Belarus  —  Home rental company Airbnb Inc is suspending all operations in Russia and Belarus, chief executive officer Brian Chesky said in a tweet on Thursday….

RightBound, which automates customer insights and outreach for sales representatives, raises a $15.5M Series A extension, for a total Series A of $27M  —  AI and automation have the potential to transform the sales industry.  A 2020 Harvard…

The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed on Monday by former college professor and school district principal Ingrid Seyer-Ochi which claims that self-proclaimed Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) manifests “white privilege, male privilege and class privilege,” as indicated from…