Cloudian, a hybrid cloud data management and storage tech vendor, raised $60M from Digital Alpha, Intel Capital, and others, bringing its total funding to $233M (Joseph F. Kovar/CRN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Cybersecurity firm Sophos plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, and sources say ~450 employees were let go; Thoma Bravo acquired Sophos for $3.9B in March 2020 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:42 Rating: 5

Brazil's antitrust watchdog Cade opened a probe into Apple on January 12 for alleged abuse of a dominant position, after MercadoLibre filed a complaint (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:42 Rating: 5

Sources: Genesis creditors are negotiating a bankruptcy plan with the firm and would agree to a forbearance period in exchange for cash payments and DCG equity (The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Source: Twitter's Q4 2022 revenue fell ~35% YoY to $1.025B, 72% of its internal goal for Q4; it hopes to generate $732M in Q1 2023, which would be down 39% YoY (Erin Woo/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Apple has agreed to hire a third-party firm to conduct an audit of its US labor practices, according to an investor coalition that has pushed for the assessment (Noam Scheiber/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Amid a wave of lawsuits claiming Tesla dangerously overhyped its self-driving software, an overview of Tesla from its erratic CEO to its erratic Autopilot AI (Christopher Cox/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Source: Microsoft is contemplating cutting ~5% of its workforce, or ~11,000 jobs, and could announce the layoffs in the coming days, before company earnings (Mark Kleinman/Sky News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Discord acquires Gas, a poll-based app with 1M+ DAUs that's popular among teens for helping them share compliments with each other (Tom Warren/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Twitter says it's enforcing "long-standing third-party API rules" that "may result in some apps not working" but does not specify the rules allegedly broken (Emma Roth/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5