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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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Tweets: @slasher, @tomhillenbrand, @business, @hardcoremetal89, @devinkofsky, @matthewkeyslive, @bfod, and @vicious696
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Sources say Discord is exploring a sale that could value it at $10B+, with one source saying it is in the final stage of negotiations — Discord is going through a sales process now that could result in a purchase of the communications and cha5t platform for much more than $10 billion, GamesBeat has learned.
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Crunchbase News, Platformer, Engadget, The Information, Reuters, Windows Central, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, Pocketnow, and GamesIndustry.biz
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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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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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Eurogamer.net, CNET, Engadget, Game Rant, Tom's Guide, BGR India, Pureinfotech, Neowin, MCV/DEVELOP, Wccftech, Pocket-lint, Twinfinite, GeekWire, GamingBolt, TrueAchievements, IGN, VentureBeat, Kotaku, Dot Esports, MUO, Windows Central, Gamasutra, and TechRadar
| 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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Microsoft Edge Blog, web.dev, ZDNet, Engadget, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, Softpedia News, and Windows Central
Tweets: @chromiumdev, @tomayac, @mahemoff, @iansherr, and @msedgedev
| 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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Tweets: @nianticlabs, @msquinn, @louisgray, @zhugeex, @aliciastella, @domsplaying, and @martinsfp
| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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Coin Journal. Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1, @anatocismos, @amlivemon, @xrpcryptowolf, and @mazmhussain
| 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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| 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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Tweets: @reckless, @zollotech, @rsingel, @joannastern, @quinnypig, and @dhh
| 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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Search Engine Roundtable. Tweets: @randfish, @alexeheath, @carnage4life, @ianlurie, @cyrusshepard, @mikko, @modestproposal1, and @gfiorelli1
| 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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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 …
Tweets: @mohamed, @nbj914, @paulconstant, @grimmelm, @susie_c, @lorcand, @jessesingal, @kantrowitz, @carnage4life, and @stratechery
| Wall Street Journal: |
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
| 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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Tweets: @rjcc, @duckduckgo, @frank_supercell, @rjcc, @royaleapi, @engadget, and @upstox
| 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 … | Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Wall Street Journal: |
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
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Samsung plans to release new Galaxy Z Flip and Fold phones this year and is working on a double-folding phone to be unveiled as early as this year — South Korean tech titan is working on new double-hinged model — TAIPEI/SEOUL — Samsung Electronics is betting heavily on foldable smartphones …
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The Verge, TechRadar, 9to5Google, Tom's Guide, BGR India, Android Authority, Pocket-lint, SiliconANGLE, MSPoweruser, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @jon_prosser, @adammiarka, @davezatz, and @nikkeiasia
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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