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Todd Spangler / Variety : CreatorIQ, which helps brands with influencer marketing by providing e-commerce and campaign measurement tools, raises $40M from investors including TVC Capital   —  Influencer marketing company CreatorIQ announced that it closed a new $40 million funding round, looking to enhance tools …

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : LA-based Tradesy, an online marketplace for secondhand high-end fashion goods, raises $67M Series D led by Foris Ventures, the family office of John Doerr   —  Tradesy, an online marketplace for secondhand high-end fashion goods, raised $67 million in Series D funding led by Foris Ventures, John Doerr's family office.

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal : Pagaya, whose AI-powered service makes financial transactions like lending more efficient for banks, is going public in a SPAC merger at a valuation of ~$9B   —  Pagaya would combine with the SPAC EJF Acquisition and uses artificial intelligence to improve lending and other financial processes

Matthew Martin / Bloomberg : Saudi-based customer communications service Unifonic raises $125M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sanabil, which is owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF   —  - Japanese conglomerate leads $125 million round for Unifonic  — Sanabil, wholly owned by Saudi wealth fund, co-led the round

Sean Hollister / The Verge : A look at the lawsuit over Kosta Elefteriou's FlickType app for Apple Watch that he claims Apple had offered to buy, as Apple unveils its own swipe keyboard   —  In January 2019, Kosta Eleftheriou had every reason to believe Apple was about to make a deal, his lawsuit alleges.

Tom Krazit / Protocol : Interview with GitHub COO Erica Brescia on GitHub's infrastructure, changes in open-source software philosophies, and why hybrid work will thrive post-pandemic   —  An astonishing amount of the code that runs the world's software spends at least part of its life in GitHub.

Darius Rucker gave an update on Kate Quigley's health as she recovers from an accidental overdose. The overdose left three of the comedian's friends dead.

Selma Blair could make an acting comeback but only for the "right thing." The actress was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018, but has recently entered "remission."

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in New York City’s Times Square Saturday to protest coronavirus vaccine mandate requirements.

Hailey and Justin Bieber have long faced rumors that the pop star doesn't treat the model very well. Hailey has addressed the rumors for the second time.

Olivia Jade is finding dancing "way harder" than she thought it would be as she prepares for the upcoming season of "Dancing with the Stars."

Queen Elizabeth II isn't necessarily on board for Prince Charles' alleged plan to turn Buckingham Palace into a museum, according to a report. The idea will not come to fruition "any time soon."

Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 Project, has been named to TIME's list of the “100 most influential people" in 2021.

Rep. Lee. Zeldin, R-N.Y., announced he is in “complete remission” after receiving treatment from being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia.

Will Oremus / Washington Post : Profile of Chris Gilliard, aka @hypervisible, who has helped coin concepts like “digital redlining” to highlight the impact of tech on marginalized groups   —  Chris Gilliard grew up with racist policing in Detroit.  He sees a new form of oppression in the tech we use every day.

FIRST ON FOX: Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, on Saturday spoke to Fox News as he visited the site of the migrant surge in Del Rio, Texas, saying that the number of predominantly Haitian migrants camping there in squalid conditions is approaching 15,000 -- and warning the situation could get much worse.

The Biden Administration has expressed concern with this year's U.N. General Assembly, saying it has the potential to become a COVID-19 “superspreader event."

A botched drone strike in Kabul aimed at ISIS-K terrorists, but that the Pentagon admitted on Friday instead killed an aid worker and members of his family including seven children, is the latest furor to involve Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley -- who had called the strike "righteous" but on Friday described it as a "horrible tragedy."

The State Department confirmed a Qatar Airways charter flight left Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday, delivering 28 U.S. citizens and 7 lawful permanent residents to safety.

Nick Clegg / About Facebook : Facebook VP says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations, and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees   —  A lot has been said about Facebook this week.  A series of articles published by the Wall Street Journal has focused …

The Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth's husband of 73 years died in April.

The video was part of retailer Sephora's "We Belong" campaign amid National Hispanic American Heritage Month.

Then-President-elect Donald Trump is said to have asked outgoing President Barack Obama in 2017 what he thought his biggest mistake was as they traveled from the White House to the Capitol building, according to a new book.

Frustration on Capitol Hill with the State Department continues to mount, as Americans and Afghan allies remain stranded in Afghanistan more than two weeks after the U.S. completed its withdrawal from the country.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is ordering the immediate release of 191 inmates who are locked up on Rikers Island for what she called “technical” violations of their parole from state prison.

Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg : Sources: US probe into Binance expands to include CFTC's review of alleged insider trading and market manipulation, following criminal probes by DOJ and the IRS   —  - CFTC examining whether crypto exchange exploited customers  — Binance has said it has strict policies to prevent misconduct

Emily Olsen / MobiHealthNews : Report: Commure, which provides APIs for vendors and startups to build healthcare apps, raised $500M over two rounds of funding, valuing the company at $3.5B   —  Human Capital and Greenoaks Capital led the latest round, according to Insider's reporting.  —  Healthcare software company Commure …

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : Cameo launches Cameo Calls, a native experience in the app for fans to video chat with influencers and celebrities for up to 15 minutes   —  If you really want to video chat tonight with William Hung of retro American Idol fame... got twenty bucks to spare?  Yesterday, Cameo launched …

Sadie Robertson revealed her four-month-old daughter Honey has been battling RSV, a common respiratory infection that can be dangerous for infants. The "Duck Dynasty" star had kept the news private, but wanted to share with fans who might be going through the same thing.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Friday urged President Biden to deploy the National Guard in response to the Haitian migrant surge at Del Rio, Texas which has overwhelmed the small town -- with officials describing the situation as “out of control.”

House and Senate Republicans are doubling down on their commitment to investigate the decisions leading to Biden's "disastrous" Afghanistan withdrawal, but Democrats are shying away from publicly blaming President Biden and his administration.

France has recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in response to a pact signed by the two countries along with the United Kingdom that they referred to as a stab in the back.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a plan to make available new resources to "protect reproductive health" in the face of the new Texas abortion law. 

Janko Roettgers / Protocol : Sources: Google plans to add free, ad-supported streaming TV channels to Google TV and has held talks with media companies that provide the channels   —  Google is looking to make its Chromecast streaming device more appealing to cord cutters.  The company has plans to add free TV channels to Google TV …

Ari Levy / CNBC : GitLab files for a US IPO and says its revenue in the latest quarter grew 69% to $58.1M, while net losses grew to $40.2M from $9.4M a year ago   —  - GitLab, which was valued at $6 billion in a secondary share sale late last year, filed its IPO prospectus on Friday.

“Saturday Night Live” star Kenan Thompson looked back on working with Chris Farley in January 1997 and admitted he learned a lot from the late great comedian.

The 64-year-old was hauled out of a Maryland eatery Thursday wearing handcuffs but no shirt.