Leah Nylen / Politico: Shareholders allege Facebook conditioned its $5B Cambridge Analytica settlement on the FTC dropping plans to sue and depose Zuckerberg  —  The company allegedly agreed to overpay on the original $106 million penalty so its CEO and COO could avoid deposition and personal liability.

Erik Schatzker / Bloomberg: One River Digital Asset Management, a crypto-fund management startup, raises $41M Series A at a $186M valuation, with Coinbase and Goldman Sachs participating  —  - Startup raises $41 million in Series A funding round  — CEO Peters is planning new crypto products and a digital index

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Treasury Department sanctions cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants  —  - The U.S. Treasury Department announced Tuesday it will sanction a cryptocurrency exchange for its alleged role in laundering ransoms for cyberattacks.

Pádraig Belton / The Guardian: As TSMC pledges to reach net zero emissions by 2050, a look at how the semiconductor industry is tackling its huge carbon footprint and resource consumption  —  As demand for chips surges, the semicondutor industry is trying to grapple with its huge carbon foot print  —  he semiconductor industry has a problem.

Ryan Weeks / The Block: Paris-based Sorare, a soccer-focused NFT trading platform, raises $680M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $4.3B valuation  —  Quick Take  — The fundraise values the Paris-based NFT startup at $4.3 billion.  — It comes off a period of rapid growth for Sorare, which now boasts 600,000 registered users.

Max Chafkin / New York Magazine: Sources: Thiel told a confidant that Zuckerberg made a deal with Kushner in 2019 to not fact-check political speech in exchange for laying off harsh regulations  —  Sometime around the spring of 1988, several members of the Stanford University chess team traveled to a tournament in Monterey, California, in an old Volkswagen Rabbit.

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Analysis: Amazon has doubled sponsored product ads at the top of some search results, from two or three to as many as six  —  - Amazon is adding more sponsored product ads to the top of search results.  — Sponsored product ads accounted for roughly 73% of retailers´ Amazon ad spend …

Federico Viticci / MacStories: In-depth iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 review: many quality-of-life updates, especially to core apps, but few bold new features and no big iPad productivity leaps  —  In my career as an iOS reviewer, I don´t think I´ve ever seen a response as universally positive and enthusiastic as the general public´s reception of iOS 14 last year.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Indian used-car marketplace Cars24 raises $450M, made up of $340M Series F and $110M in debt, at a $1.84B valuation  —  The used car market is getting another major infusion of venture capital today, with one of the faster scaling startups out of India picking up a major round of financing …

The Economic Times: Facebook India appoints former Uber executive Rajiv Aggarwal as head of public policy, a post that has been vacant for nearly a year since Ankhi Das quit  —  Rajiv Aggarwal, who will work on user safety, data protection and privacy, inclusion and internet governance, will report to Ajit Mohan, managing director, Facebook India