The Information has a story about a secret deal Apple struck that really solidifies Tim Cook as the China whisperer. Intel proves itself to be an astute investor as it weighs a public spinoff of Mobileye. European tech startups raise all-time record amounts. Quantifying this year’s emerging NFT market. And the first ever marketable quantum computing product?

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Links:

• Facing Hostile Chinese Authorities, Apple CEO Signed $275 Billion Deal With Them (The Information)
• Samsung's mobile and consumer electronic divisions merge into one in exec reshuffle (ZDNet)
• Intel to List Shares in Mobileye Unit (WSJ)
• The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users (The Markup)
• Microsoft Office prices going up 20% for some business clients unless they move from monthly to annual subscriptions (CNBC)
• European start-up funding triples to a new record above $100 billion this year (CNBC)
• [Report Preview] The 2021 NFT Market Explained (Chainalysis)
• Honeywell Unit Offers First-Ever Quantum-Created Encryption Key (Bloomberg)

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