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How live-action YouTube kids channels Vlad and Niki, Like Nastya, and Kids Diana Show, with a total of ~300M subscribers, are building global franchises (R.T. Watson/Wall Street Journal)

New Delhi-based diabetes management app BeatO raised a $33M Series B led by Lightrock India, with Flipkart and others participating (Debjyoti Roy/Livemint)

Source: the US DOJ is investigating whether rent-setting software made by RealPage is facilitating collusion among landlords to drive up rental prices (Heather Vogell/ProPublica)

An in-depth look at the US sanctions on China's chipmakers and worries over their impact on inflation and rising costs for Western manufacturers and customers (June Yoon/Financial Times)

Inside Zhengzhou's "iPhone City" lockdown, where China's zero COVID-19 policy, related propaganda and fears, and Foxconn's missteps led to the worker riots (South China Morning Post)

Experts and employees detail Uber's struggles in Pakistan as it discontinues service in five cities, cuts spending, and faces increased competition from inDrive (Nilesh Christopher/Rest of World)

UK government says its Online Safety Bill will return to the parliament in December and will be expanded to criminalize nonconsensual "deepfake" pornography (Alex Hern/The Guardian)

Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 28.2% YoY to ~$8.7B and ~$170M in profit, as its "core local commerce" segment, including food delivery and hotels, rose 24.6% YoY (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)

London-based The Applied AI Company, which uses AI to automate repetitive work prone to human error in insurance, pharma, and other sectors, raised a $42M seed (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

Musk says Twitter will start manually authenticating accounts starting next week, with blue check marks for people, gold for companies, and gray for governments (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

IMF calls for more crypto regulation in Africa, says 25% of countries in sub-Saharan Africa have regulated crypto and two-thirds have imposed some restrictions (Ana Paula Pereira/Cointelegraph)

Germany-based Temedica, which offers a health data insight service to pharma companies, raised a €25M Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to €42M (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)