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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

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CEO Anatoly Yakovenko announced this week that its first product, the Osom OV1, will be an Android smartphone that supports decentralized apps reliant on the Solana blockchain. Now Google threat researchers have confirmed much of Lookout’s findings and are notifying Android users whose devices were compromised by the spyware.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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These companies are involved in activities like planting spyware on web sites to collect users’ personal data. Cryptocurrency and Blockchains. The Australian Stock Exchanged canceled its 6-year-old blockchain experiment , which would have put most of its work onto a Blockchain-like shared distributed ledger.

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

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But after a couple of years coming to you virtually, the world’s most impactful tech startup conference is coming back to real life. Bankrolling the Blockchain with a16z Crypto. Launched in 2020, Solana gained worldwide renown for being one of the fastest blockchains with a rapidly growing developer ecosystem.