Sources: travel booking site Trip.com, formerly called Ctrip, plans to raise ~$1.09B in its Hong Kong secondary listing; its US shares have risen ~4% this year  — – Online travel platform would raise $1.09 billion at that price  — U.S.-listed Chinese companies are flocking to Hong Kong. Source

Sources say Discord is exploring a sale that could value it at $10B+, with one source saying it is in the final stage of negotiations  —  Discord is going through a sales process now that could result in a purchase of the communications and cha5t platform for much more than $10 billion, GamesBeat has learned….

Amazon says its ad-supported streaming video content now reaches more than 120M users every month, up from 20M in January 2020, driven by Twitch  —  – Amazon said Monday its ad-supported streaming content now reaches more than 120 monthly users every month. Source

German startup lemon.markets, which makes APIs for developers to build stock trading features, raises a €15M seed led by Lakestar and Lightspeed Source

Troy Hunt claims that Carding Mafia, a forum for trading stolen credit card data, has been hacked, exposing emails, usernames, and passwords of ~300K hackers Source

After leaving Meta, CrowdTangle co-founder Brandon Silverman has helped a bipartisan group of US senators craft a bill to boost social networks’ transparency  —  The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings. Source

Discord bans pro-Trump server “The Donald” because of “its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection”  —  The server had connections to the banned r/The_Donald subreddit  —  Discord has banned a server called “The Donald. Source

Interview with Zapier CEO on Sequoia and Steadfast Financial’s January investment via secondary market, acquiring no-code education business Makerpad, and more  —  Zapier CEO Wade Foster avoids thinking about fundraising as much as possible. Profitable for years, his startup. Source

Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple’s IDFA ad privacy changes  —  ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group. Source

Roku says Roku OS-powered smart TVs held 38% market share in the US and 31% in Canada in 2020, according to NPD  —  Earlier in the week, Roku revealed that they had surpassed 50 million active users.  One of the biggest areas of growth has come from Roku OS-powered Smart TVs. Source