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| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment announces it is buying Bungie, which makes Destiny and other games, for $3.6B; Bungie will become an independent subsidiary — Destiny studio will remain multiplatform, able “to self-publish and reach players wherever they choose to play”
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The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures” — Wordle, Josh Wardle's stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times's portfolio of original …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Ryan Breslow, co-founder of one-click checkout startup Bolt, steps down as CEO and becomes executive chairman, after his tweets bashing YC and Stripe went viral — Ryan Breslow, who founded the “one-click” checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out updated 3D avatars across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Stories in the US, Canada, and Mexico — It's a step toward the company's concept of the metaverse — Facebook parent company Meta is introducing 3D avatars to Instagram Stories and direct messages and updating …
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| New York Times: |
Current and former Meta employees say the company's metaverse moves have caused disruption and uncertainty, as some feel funneled towards AR and VR initiatives — Shifting a 68,000-person social networking company toward the theoretical metaverse has caused internal disruption and uncertainty.
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| Taylor Lyles / IGN: |
Discord rolls out the ability for US PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 owners to link their PSN accounts with Discord; support for more countries is coming soon — Support will roll out first to US users, though. — PlayStation owners will able to connect their accounts to Discord starting today …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Joe Rogan posts a video to Instagram defending booking contentious guests, apologizes to Spotify for the backlash, and says he may book more “experts” — 'I'm very sorry that this is happening to them.' — Joe Rogan has issued a response to the ongoing controversy …
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| Daniel Ek / Spotify: |
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Crypto exchange FTX raises a $400M Series C from SoftBank, Paradigm, Tiger Global, and others at a $32B valuation, up from $25B in October 2021 — The frothy venture capital market continues to buoy the empire of billionaire trader and entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Tweets: @jcoviedo6, @zackseward, @davemcclure, @fintechfrank, @anthony, and @silvermanjacob
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Silvergate Bank confirms it's purchasing the Diem Association's IP and other assets, issuing $132M in stock and paying an additional $50M in cash for the deal — The Diem Association is shutting down. — Silvergate Bank confirmed Monday that it's purchasing the technology and other assets from Diem …
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Tweets: @diemassociation, @taliagold, @diemassociation, @davidmarcus, @ccatalini, @ccatalini, @ccatalini, @davidmarcus, and @juthica
| Wall Street Journal: |
Antenna: Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, and others struggle to retain US subscribers who joined to watch a hit show; some subscribers only stay for a few months — Roughly half of U.S. viewers who joined right after ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ were gone in six months, data show
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The Wrap, MacRumors, Too Much TV Newsletter, and iMore
Tweets: @benmullin, @benmullin, @iansherr, @alexsalvinews, and @ballmatthew
| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Pinterest introduces a new augmented reality tool for home furniture, letting users see how the items would look in their homes via its mobile app — The new tool expands on its existing technology used for beauty products — Pinterest Inc. is introducing a new augmented reality tool for home furniture … | Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
BlackBerry agrees to sell mobile, messaging, and wireless patents to Catapult IP Innovations for $600M, after ending support for its phones earlier in January — BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO), said on Monday it will sell its legacy patents primarily related to mobile devices …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Phantom, a Solana wallet similar to Ethereum's MetaMask, raises a $109M Series B at a $1.2B valuation, debuts an iOS app, and promises Ethereum support in 2022 — Quick Take — Phantom has raised $109 million in Series B funding and is now a unicorn. — The Solana wallet is looking …
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Phantom, Nairametrics, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, CoinGape, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @fehrsam, @jessewldn, and @to
| Samuel Stolton / Politico: |
Doc: the US is pressing EU officials to revise the Digital Markets Act to focus less on tech giants and ensure that the act covers tech firms outside of the US — The United States is pressing the EU to revise rules targeting digital giants to make them focus less on American companies …
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Protocol. Tweets: @adamkovac, @samuelstolton, @viacristiano, @apolyakova, and @schneideringrid
| Reuters: |
Citrix Systems says Elliott Management and Vista Equity have agreed to acquire and take the company private for $16.5B — Hedge fund Elliott Management and investment firm Vista Equity Partners have agreed to buy Citrix Systems (CTXS.O) in a deal valued at $16.5 billion, the cloud computing company said on Monday.
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