Apple says iPhone 14 starts at $799, 14 Pro starts at $999, and 14 Pro Max starts at $1,099, available September 16; 14 Plus starts at $899, available October 7 (Valentina Palladino/Engadget) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

State Farm will invest $1.2B in ADT for a ~15% stake, and $300M more for product innovation; Google invests $150M toward new products, pledges $150M more (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

VTS, which provides online tools to landlords for managing leases and tenant data, raised a $125M+ Series E led by CBRE Group, sources say at a $1.7B valuation (Peter Grant/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

In a text exchange on May 8, Elon Musk suggested slowing down the Twitter deal ahead of a speech by Putin to see if "we're heading into World War III" (Kevin T. Dugan/New York Magazine) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Google confirms the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will run on a new "Tensor G2" SoC (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Internal memo: Instagram plans to eventually eliminate its existing Shopping page and will test a simpler and less personalized page over the next few months (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Sources: amid lockdowns, Chinese staff and suppliers contributed more complex work to the iPhone 14 than to past models as Apple tries to cut its China reliance (Tripp Mickle/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

As Chinese consumers become thrifty amid an economic slowdown, Insider Intelligence forecasts just 9.1% increase in e-commerce sales in 2022, lowest since 2008 (Shen Lu/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Singapore-based Docquity, a collaboration and learning platform for health care professionals, raised a $44M Series C, bringing its total funding to $57.5M (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Venture Intelligence: Indian startups raised 18 $100M+ funding rounds totaling $3.6B in Q2 2022, down from 29 such rounds worth a total of $6.7B in Q1 2022 (The Economic Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5