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Sources: Microsoft is in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B; one source says Discord is more likely to go public than sell itself — Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire Discord Inc., a video-game chat community, for more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Sources: Nintendo will use new Nvidia graphics chip in its 2021 Switch upgrade, helping the console deliver 4K on TVs via Nvidia's DLSS — - The Nvidia system-on-chip will also add memory and CPU upgrade — Nintendo's console refresh targeting year-end shopping season
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live as Xbox network and says the change is to distinguish the online service from Xbox Live Gold membership — Xbox network is the future — Microsoft is rebranding Xbox Live to Xbox network. Instances of the new branding started appearing in the Xbox dashboard recently …
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| João Carrasqueira / Neowin: |
Microsoft, Google, and others partner to improve browser compatibility, focusing on five areas, including CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, and CSS sticky positioning — Google and Microsoft have announced that they're joining forces with other companies such as Igalia, as well as the “broader web community” …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Niantic announces a new partnership with Nintendo to develop mobile games built on Niantic's AR tech, starting with a game based on Nintendo's Pikmin franchise — Niantic and Nintendo announced a new partnership — Niantic, developer of the smash hit Pokémon Go, has announced a new partnership with Nintendo.
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| Joe Light / Bloomberg: |
Boston Fed officials and MIT researchers, who have been developing prototypes for a digital dollar platform, plan to unveil their research as soon as July — - Boston Fed, MIT researchers plan to unveil platform work soon — Project could threaten banks, credit cards, cryptocurrencies
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Biden announces his intent to nominate Lina Khan, a legal scholar and leading voice in the growing tech antitrust movement, to serve as an FTC commissioner — Khan brought Big Tech scrutiny mainstream — President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Lina Khan …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Jack Dorsey's first tweet sold as an NFT for $2,915,835.47 on a service called Valuables; Dorsey says he sent all proceeds to GiveDirectly's Africa fund as BTC — The winning bidder for the Twitter CEO's first tweet was Sina Estavi — After it spent just over two weeks on the market …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Fitness company Peloton has recently acquired three startups, gaining expertise in wearable devices, voice assistants, and interactive workout mats — - Company quietly purchased Atlas Wearables, Otari and Aiqudo — Peloton Interactive Inc. recently acquired three companies … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Orca Security, which provides tools for protecting cloud-based assets, raises $210M Series C led by CapitalG and Redpoint Ventures at a $1.2B valuation — Orca Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that offers an agent-less security platform for protecting cloud-based assets …
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The controversies around Substack miss the point that it is just a tool for sovereign writers, who are in control as they are paid directly by subscribers — There has been a bit of controversy around Substack over the last week; I'm not going to get into the specifics of various accusations …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Aiven, which provides managed open source data technologies, raises $100M Series C, at a $800M valuation — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Aiven, a Finnish company that provides managed open source data technologies …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Dataminr, which analyzes public data in real-time, raises $475M at a post-money valuation of $4.1B, bringing its total raised to $1.05B+ — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in AI …
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Facebook announces F8 Refresh on June 2, a single-day, virtual-only conference for developers without a Mark Zuckerberg keynote — After a few twists and turns and then ultimately cancelling its F8 developer conference last year over Covid-19 concerns, Facebook today announced a return …
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Investors and players are buying millions of dollars worth of “land” inside games in the form of NFTs, which can then be rented out or even sold to other gamers — Investors and gamers are buying millions of dollars worth of land that exists only in videogames
Tweets: @joellatto, @wsj, @guildofguardian, and @joshelman
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Analysis of 3,100 sites shows that hospitals are using code to hide pages containing pricing data from being crawled by search engines, violating US federal law — Webpages for hundreds of hospitals require users to click through to find prices, undermining federal transparency rule, Journal analysis shows
Tweets: @ericgeller, @annemariebridy, @rstephens, @sarahkliff, @danpriceseattle, @clancynewyork, @crulge, @benpershing, and @bendavanzo
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Judge certifies a class action suit against Apple that claims it knew for years that MacBooks' butterfly keyboards were flawed and small fixes were insufficient — The suit says Apple knew its thinner keyboard was rotten — A judge has certified a class action suit against Apple for its fragile butterfly keyboard design.
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| Rand Fishkin / SparkToro: |
SimilarWeb: in 2020, ~65% of Google searches ended without a click, up from ~50% in June 2019; mobile searches are far more likely to end without a click — In August of 2019, I published research from now-defunct clickstream data provider, Jumpshot, showing that 50.33% of all Google searches ended without …
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| R. Lawler / Engadget: |
Google says it has fixed a WebView problem that caused Gmail, Google Play, and other apps to crash — This afternoon, a number of Android users (self included) suddenly saw notifications pop up on their devices saying that apps had stopped running. Many of the apps throwing errors suddenly …
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| Bloomberg: |
In 2020, 60% to 70% of 9-year-old YouTuber Ryan Kaji's $30M annual revenue came from merchandise licensing deals, passing YouTube ad revenue for the first time — Ryan Kaji is one of the most popular YouTube creators in the world, with a main channel that's drawn 29 million subscribers interested … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Jumio, which provides digital identity services, raises $150M from Great Hill Partners and says it has verified 300M+ identities — Digital identity services — used as a key link between organizations to verify that you are who you say you are online and individuals logging into those services … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Loft, a São Paulo-based real estate marketplace for Brazil, raises $425M Series D led by D1 Capital Partners at a $2.2B valuation — Buying and selling residential real estate is a complex business, no matter where you live. A slew of startups in the United States are focused on streamlining that process for people.
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