Anonymous messaging app After School just raised $16.4 million in a fresh round led by Accomplice. “The funding is noteworthy considering that this time last year it looked as though After School might be left for dead,” Re/code notes. “That’s because the app was bombarded with users shortly after launch and before it had built any safety or reporting features.”

European and U.S. officials have reportedly agreed to a deal that will let Google, Amazon and other digital businesses safely send and receive consumer data. “With billions of dollars of business potentially at stake, the data-transfer deal was the result of more than three months of often tense negotiations between United States and European Union policy makers,” The New York Times reports.

On March 15, Apple is reportedly planning to debut a new 4-inch the iPhone 5se, the iPad Air 3, and new Apple Watch band options. “Apple is planning to reinvigorate the 4-inch iPhone screen size by replacing the iPhone 5s with an iPhone 5se that includes an A9 chip, improved cameras, support for taking Live Photos, and Apple Pay,” 9To5Mac reports.

Condé Nast employees are growing increasingly uneasy with the publisher’s obsession with cost cutting and Web traffic, The New York Times reports, citing about a dozen former and current staffers. Meanwhile, “Its digital business is up nearly 70 percent [since 2012] but that component … represents a much smaller percentage of overall revenue, which has declined in recent years.”

The Verge takes issue with increasingly ubiquitous digital “assistants” like Siri, Cortana, Alexa, Facebook M, and Google Now. “There's a problem that’s built into them: They only seem to work with certain parts of the web and -- here's the real rub -- certain apps,” it writes. “This isn’t a net neutrality issue, per se, but it does feel related.” To that end, “The original concept of net neutrality was underwritten by the pre-existence of open web standards.”

American and European officials missed their Sunday deadline to agree over how digital data can be safely transferred between the regions. “Without an agreement, companies that regularly move data, including tech giants like Google and nontech companies like General Electric, could find themselves in murky legal waters,” The New York Times reports.