Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India-based grocery delivery startup Zepto emerges from stealth with $60M from Glade Brook Capital, Nexus, Y Combinator, and others  —  Two 19-year-old entrepreneurs, who have previously collaborated on a nu…

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…

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times:
A look at “creepypasta”, ghost stories such as Slender Man that spread online, and how decentralized myth-making can explain the rise of meme stocks and QAnon  —  Or: how th…

Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:
After a three-day outage, Roblox says it has begun incrementally restoring service to some players  —  According to Roblox’s status page, all versions of the game have been down since Oct 28 starting at 7 pm EST…

Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
Estimate: Apple’s iOS App Tracking Transparency policy has cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube almost $10B in combined ad revenues so far  —  Forcing apps to ask for permission to track users for…

Politico:
Industry and government officials say Gaia-X, a project to reduce EU’s cloud dependency on US tech giants, is hamstrung by infighting and bloated bureaucracy  —  The initiative, meant to boost Europe’s cloud services, is fai…

Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Apple’s $19 Polishing Cloth has become its most back-ordered new product with shipments delayed until January; source: the company isn’t surprised by the demand  —  It’s a $19 cloth.  —…

Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia:
Beijing-based Huice, a SaaS provider that helps e-commerce businesses manage orders and more, raises a $312M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2  —  Huice, which develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) s…

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
BackBox, which provides companies with network automation, security, and management software, raises $32M Series A led by Elsewhere Partners  —  BackBox, a network automation, security, and management servi…

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
In 2018, Oculus’ Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook execs laying the foundation for Meta’s ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market  —  – In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a…