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Italian payments giant Nexi acquires Germany-based Orderbird, which provides point of sale products to hospitality businesses, sources say for €130M to €140M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Affirm beats in Q4 with $261.8M, up 71% YoY, vs. estimates of $225M, with 7.1M active customers, up from 5.4M in the previous quarter; stock up more than 20% (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Car subscription service Finn raises a $110M Series B led by Korelya Capital at a $500M+ valuation to expand in the US and Germany (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Qualtrics to acquire Virginia-based Clarabridge, which offers AI-powered customer experience management tools, for $1.125B in stock (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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Charlotte-based payments processing and automation company AvidXchange files for an IPO, seeking to raise up to $506M, valuing it at around $4.4B (Reuters)

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Agricultural manufacturing giant John Deere acquires autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics for $250M (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

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Discord servers of some NFT projects, including BAYC, were compromised on Friday as part of a phishing scam seeking to trick users into “minting” fake NFTs (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)

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Sources: Coinbase was valued at $100B+ in private share sale ahead of direct listing; docs reveal $141M net income on $691M revenue for first 9 months of 2020 (Dan Primack/Axios)

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Australia-based Cover Genius, a B2B insurance service which counts eBay and Intuit as partners, raises A$100M Series C led by Sompo Holdings at a A$1B valuation (Nabila Ahmed/Bloomberg)