Interviews with former and current Microsoft employees suggest a widespread pattern of executive misconduct persists, years after Satya Nadella vowed to end it (Ashley Stewart/Insider)

Ashley Stewart / Insider:Interviews with former and current Microsoft employees suggest a widespread pattern of executive misconduct persists, years after Satya Nadella vowed to end it  —  The Microsoft executive walked into the small, windowless room in Studio C at about 8 o’clock that evening.

DeFi Llama: the total value locked across DeFi protocols has dropped to ~$112B, down from ~$195B before UST and LUNA collapsed, amid a broader decline in crypto (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:DeFi Llama: the total value locked across DeFi protocols has dropped to ~$112B, down from ~$195B before UST and LUNA collapsed, amid a broader decline in crypto  —  The collapse of one of decentralized finance’s most ambitious experiments has knocked more than $83 billion off the sector’s […]

SwipeRx, a digital platform for pharmacists in Southeast Asia for daily tasks like purchasing or inventory financing, raises a $27M Series B led by MDI Ventures (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Kate Park / TechCrunch:SwipeRx, a digital platform for pharmacists in Southeast Asia for daily tasks like purchasing or inventory financing, raises a $27M Series B led by MDI Ventures  —  SwipeRx, a platform for pharma professionals, said Tuesday it has secured a $27 million Series B round led by Indonesia’s […]

Singapore-based BUD, which offers a metaverse for Gen Z via its apps and plans to launch an NFT marketplace, raises $36.8M Series B led by Sequoia Capital India (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

Rita Liao / TechCrunch:Singapore-based BUD, which offers a metaverse for Gen Z via its apps and plans to launch an NFT marketplace, raises $36.8M Series B led by Sequoia Capital India  —  BUD, a nascent app taking a shot at creating a metaverse for Gen Z to play and interact […]