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Netflix's stock is down 41% from a November high as US subscriber numbers hit maturity, forcing it chase growth in developing markets and verticals like gaming — New York (CNN Business)Just like its comedy film “Don't Look Up,” the sky may be falling for Netflix.| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A group of 34 QA testers at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software vote to unionize with the CWA, and ask the company to voluntarily recognize their union status — Microsoft Corp.'s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. will come with an unexpected and perhaps unwelcome addition: a small group of unionized workers.| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter will let iOS users of its Blue subscription service use NFTs as hexagon-shaped profile pictures — Service will be available to some users of the company's Blue subscriber service — Twitter Inc. will start allowing some users to use nonfungible tokens as their profile pictures …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Hands-on with a pre-release mid-2018 build of Microsoft's canceled Andromeda OS for dual-screen devices — We take a look at Microsoft's canceled Andromeda OS project. — Ever wondered what Microsoft's canceled version of Windows for the Surface Duo was going to be like?
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: 40 themes and 53 plugins for WordPress downloaded from AccessPress had backdoors dating back to September, giving attackers full admin control — A massive supply chain attack compromised 93 WordPress themes and plugins to contain a backdoor, giving threat-actors full access to websites.
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| Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
CoinGecko: the cryptocurrency industry's market cap fell to ~$1.8T amidst a selloff; in 24 hours, Bitcoin fell 10%+ to ~$36K and Ethereum fell ~13% to ~$2.6K — Cryptocurrencies are getting rekt. — Crypto blue-chips bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) breached key $40,000 …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at ID.me, which will soon be used to verify IRS.gov logins and claims to have uncovered a $400B theft of US pandemic unemployment payments — If you were writing a techno-thriller, you'd give your hero a backstory like Blake Hall's. He's a Harvard MBA, an alumnus …
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| Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill: |
Amazon spent a record $20.3M and Meta a record $20.1M on US federal lobbying in 2021, both up ~7% YoY; Google spent $9.6M, up 27%; Apple spending fell to $6.5M — Amazon and Meta, Facebook's parent company, spent record sums on federal lobbying in 2021 as they fought legislation to limit their expansive market power.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Moss, which offers a spend management service with credit cards to SMBs, raises a €75M Series B led by Tiger Global at a €500M valuation — Berlin-based startup Moss has announced earlier this week that it has closed a new $86 million Series B funding round (€75 million).| Reuters: |
Investigation finds that Binance withheld information from regulators and maintained weak checks on customers even as it publicly welcomed government oversight — In public, Binance said it welcomed government oversight. At the same time, the firm was withholding information from regulators …
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| Malia Spencer / Portland Business Journal: |
Anitian, which offers enterprise cloud security and compliance software, raises a $55M Series B led by Sageview Capital, bringing its total funding to $71M — A Portland-area cloud security and compliance software maker has secured $55 million from investors to further fuel growth of its enterprise platform.
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| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
California court orders YouTuber Ruben Sim to pay Roblox $150K and stay off the platform, after Roblox accused him of leading a “cybermob” terrorizing players — Roblox YouTuber Ruben Sim accused of leading ‘cybermob’ on the game platform — An Oakland, California court …
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