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ZeroFox goes public in $1.4B SPAC deal

TechCrunch

ZeroFox , an enterprise threat intelligence cybersecurity startup that helps companies detect risks found on social media , has announced plans to become a publicly traded company via a merger with blank-check company L&F Acquisition.

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As Deezer goes public via SPAC, is the blank-check boom really over?

TechCrunch

So-called blank check companies, which take a skeleton corporation public with the aim of later merging with a private entity, can offer a quick path to the world’s stock markets. But while SPAC might as well be a bad word in the United States today, there is blank-check activity elsewhere that’s worth our attention.

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The MariaDB SPAC deal could prove to be a key test for unicorn exits

TechCrunch

Companies as far afield from one another as BuzzFeed (media), Bird (e-scooter fleets), and Dave (consumer fintech), among other recent SPAC-led debuts, have shed value since their blank-check combinations. The SPAC craze is slowing in the wake of myriad missteps.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Edtech VC survey, 5 founder mistakes, fintech liquidity, more

TechCrunch

Talent and capital are shifting cybersecurity investors’ focus away from Silicon Valley. New cybersecurity ecosystems are popping up in different parts of the world. Talent and capital are shifting cybersecurity investors’ focus away from Silicon Valley. Image Credits: MCCAIG (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: VC ‘bottom feeders,’ valuation calculator, think like an investor

TechCrunch

Follow-on investors who take advantage of the closing IPO window to foist unfavorable terms on founders are “the bottom feeders of the venture capital business,” writes Steve Blank. Today, baseball is a technology-driven enterprise where team owners, players, media organizations and individual fans have access to reams of raw statistics.

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The Intertwingularity is near: When humans transcend print media

O'Reilly Media - Data

Organizational challenges emerge along with those implementations at scale: collaboration, discovery, security, compliance, privacy, ethics, provenance, etc. While the promise of WWW implies dynamic, interactive media shared across global infrastructure, questions linger about how best to make it happen. At the D.C.

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Boolean Search Strings: 5 Essential Tips For Recruiters

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

For example, leaving a blank space between ‘product’ and ‘manager’ will provide irrelevant results that contain both of the words ‘product’ and ‘manager,’ but not necessarily together. #6 Social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit also respond well to Boolean search strings. 5 Quotation Marks (“ ”). 6 Asterisk (*).