Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual shipments since 2012; Apple’s market share grew by 28.3%, Acer’s by 21.8% — It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong.
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Emma Betuel / TechCrunch: Koneksa, an analytics service for medical devices being used in clinical trials, raises a $45M Series C, following a $4M Series A and a $16M Series B — Rating symptoms on a numerical scale seems easy, but it can be harder than it appears. How much did it hurt when you stubbed your toe?
Jessica Mathews / Fortune: Arkansas-based AcreTrader, an online farmland investment portal, raises a $40M Series B led by Anthemis Group, bringing its total funding to $58M — This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: PlexTrac, which aims to automate mundane cybersecurity tasks, raises a $70M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $82M — With growing pressures and a shortage of talent, most security teams in 2022 are trying to do more with less. Cyber threats keep escalating, evolving, and growing in complexity.
Enlarge / The Pi OS is getting a new setup wizard to help it shed its old username. (credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation) Since its launch, the Raspberry Pi OS (and most operating systems based on it) has shipped with a default “pi” user account, making it simpler to boot up a Pi and start working without needing to hook up the device to a monitor or go through a multi-step setup process. But as of today, that’s changing—new installs of the Raspberry Pi OS are shedding that default user account for both security and regulatory reasons. Raspberry Pi Foundation software engineer Simon…
Adam Satariano / New York Times: YouTube’s mistaken deletion of a channel belonging to UK news outlet Novara Media draws criticism over the company’s power as a content regulator — Novara, a London news group, fell victim to YouTube’s opaque and sometimes arbitrary enforcement of its rules.
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: SpaceFill, which helps companies build flexible logistics networks in Europe by offering warehouse space and a SaaS monitoring tool, raises $27M led by NGP — French startup SpaceFill has raised a $27 million funding round (€25 million) led by NGP Capital with Maersk Growth …
Nathan Grayson / Washington Post: OfflineTV VR, a virtual version of an LA pop-up built by a group of Twitch streamers and McDonald’s, shows the limits of brand-constructed VR spaces — A man with no face rises into the sky. Thanks to a stray beam of artificial sunlight, it almost appears he has a halo. Onlookers gather to gawk.
Benedict Evans / Benedict Evans/Presentations: Overview of macro tech trends, with a focus on Web3, metaverse, and the move to the cloud, which is just beginning as on-prem IT spend still dwarfs cloud spend — The most exciting themes in technology today are transformative visions for 2025 or 2030: crypto, web3, VR, metaverse… and then everything else.
Andy Greenberg / Wired: Profile of American hacker P4x, who says he is responsible for ongoing North Korean internet outages, frustrated by the US’ lack of response to DPRK attacks — Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom’s attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.