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Nimble raises $9M Series A round

Social sales and CRM marketing company Nimble has raised $9 million in a Series A round of financing, led by Imagen Capital Partners. Additional investors include Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments, Google Ventures, Indicator Ventures and angels including Jason Calacanis, Howard Lindzon and Don Dodge.

Nimble previously raised a total of $3.5 million in seed funding. The company says it will use the capital to accelerate product innovation, partnerships, and customer adoption.

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Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone — The Verge

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users, writes Tom Warren. 

Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it — The Verge

President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year, writes Lauren Feiner.

IBM to acquire HashiCorp for $6.4B

IBM and HashiCorp have entered into an agreement for IBM to acquire HashiCorp, a provider of infrastructure and security management products, for $6.4 billion.

Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry — CNBC

Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter, writes Ashley Capoot.