Instead of other newsletter platforms, Substack should be compared to services giving creators direct relationships with fans, like Shopify, Twitch, and Patreon (Hamish McKenzie/On Substack) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Hacker behind the Mango Markets exploit keeps $47M and returns $67M to the DeFi platform after a Mango community vote; he claims his actions were legal (Osato Avan-Nomayo/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

The WEEE Forum research says that about 5.3B out of an estimated 16B mobile phones worldwide will be thrown away and become waste in 2022 (Victoria Gill/BBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Miami-based Brave Health, a Medicaid-focused virtual mental health care provider, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to $60M (Emily Olsen/MobiHealthNews) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Insight Partners to buy a minority stake in Aptean, which develops ERP and supply chain management software, sources say at a ~$3.55B valuation, including debt (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

NLRB: Apple's Penn Square store employees in Oklahoma City have voted to unionize with the CWA, with 56 votes in favor and 32 against (Mitchell Clark/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Manchester-based Connex One, which provides customer engagement tools to contact centers, raised a £93M Series C (George Simister/UKTN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Doc: a shareholders' agreement from Elon Musk for Twitter investors gives him "sole discretion" on an IPO decision, "exclusive authority" on board changes, more (The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

An in-depth look at TikTok's rise, as US viewers spend longer in the video app than Facebook and Instagram combined, and ongoing issues with Chinese ownership (Drew Harwell/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Dutch e-commerce company Prosus to sell its Russian classifieds business Avito to Kismet Capital for ~$2.46B; Avito was valued at ~$6B before Russia's invasion (Toby Sterling/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5