Gett, which helps companies organize their ride-hailing, taxi, and limousine booking options, is going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.1B valuation (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

An overview of Taproot, an upgrade to bitcoin that should make transactions more private and less expensive, and is expected to go live in the coming days (Taylor Locke/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Presto, which provides restaurants with food ordering hardware and analytics, is going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1B valuation (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Intel scrapped plans to make silicon wafers at a Chinese factory to ease US chip shortages, after the Biden admin strongly discouraged the proposal (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Cloud backup service Backblaze climbed 24% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday and 12% on Friday, after raising $100M in its IPO, giving it a market cap of ~$650M (Jordan Novet/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

AppliedVR, which provides VR-based therapeutics to patients with chronic pain, raises a $36M Series B, bringing its total funding to $71M (Fred Pennic/HIT Consultant) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Some TikTok users say the app is encouraging them to follow people they know in real life, raising privacy concerns over TikTok's tactics to connect users (Louise Matsakis/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:50 Rating: 5

iPhone 13 Pro's new macro mode toggle is great because someone's listening - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:19 Rating: 5

AMC Theatres now accepts bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash, and litecoin for online payments; CEO Adam Aron says dogecoin will be accepted next (Helen Partz/Cointelegraph) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:47 Rating: 5

A labor group seeking to organize at Amazon's Staten Island facility have withdrawn their petition to the NLRB, saying they need more time to collect signatures (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:47 Rating: 5