** Software developer Phunware Inc's PHUN.O shares up
15.9% at $2.95 early Mon after co announces strategic
partnership
** PHUN says political partnership with Campaign Nucleus to
enhance its mobile app Smart Advocacy Solution urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nGNX58dl1W
** Campaign Nucleus, founded by Brad Parscale, who managed
former President Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, provides
AI-based digital platform for center-right candidates,
organizations and corporations
** PHUN was hired by Trump's reelection campaign to build a
phone app
** Other Trump-linked stocks also rising on Mon: SPAC
Digital World Acquisition Corp DWAC.O , which will take Trump
Media & Technology Group Corp (TMTG) public, up 9.1%
** Remark Holdings MARK.O , which has been linked to Trump
on social media sites, rises 4.5%. Reuters has not independently
verified link between Trump and Remark
** Blank-check firm Benessere Capital BENE.O , SPAC run by
DWAC's CEO and former investment banker Patrick Orlando, edges
up fractionally in early trade
** SPAC CF Acquisition Corp VI CFVI.O , which will take
Canadian video platform Rumble Inc public, advances 8.5%
** Trump's social media venture entered into a technology
and cloud-services agreement with Rumble in Dec urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2SZ422
** Meanwhile, with just weeks to go before an expected
launch, Trump's TMTG will try to avoid running afoul of Apple
AAPL.O and Google’s GOOGL.O app store policies urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2UF18K
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed
are his own)
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