A county-by-county map of the broadband gap in the US shows how lack of fiber stifles economic activity in poor counties which in turn results in disinvestment (The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 00:44 Rating: 5

Overview of the major uptick in spending on lobbying in the US by crypto organizations like Coinbase, Ripple, and trade groups like the Blockchain Association (Eric Lipton/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:44 Rating: 5

South Korea's Kakao Entertainment acquires US-based online comic app Tapas for $510M and serialized fiction app Radish for $440M (Joyce Lee/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:44 Rating: 5

FCC approves $7.17B fund for schools and libraries to buy laptops, tablets, Wi-Fi hotspots, and broadband connections to help facilitate online learning (Corinne Reichert/CNET) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:44 Rating: 5

Radish, a serialized fiction app that has raised about $72M, is being acquired by South Korea's Kakao Entertainment for $440M (Todd Spangler/Variety) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:44 Rating: 5

Kin, which uses thousands of data points to provide personalized home insurance in natural disaster-prone US states like FL, CA, and LA, raises $63.9M Series C (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:44 Rating: 5

Ethos, whose platform allows customers to shop for and secure life insurance policies online, raises $200M led by General Catalyst at a $2B+ valuation (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:44 Rating: 5

Docs show that Bird is preparing to go public via a SPAC merger at $2.3B valuation; Bird expects to trim adjusted EBITDA loss to $96M in 2021 vs. $183M in 2020 (Ben Bergman/dot.LA) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:44 Rating: 5

Spotify brings podcast timestamped sharing to its iOS app - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:12 Rating: 5

Apple has stopped signing iOS 14.5 after releasing iOS 14.5.1 - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:12 Rating: 5