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Filing: Elon Musk takes a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, worth ~$2.89B, becoming its largest shareholder; Twitter shares rise about 26% in pre-market trading — Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, according to a 13G filing, Bloomberg News reports. Twitter rose about 26% in pre-market trading.
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Interview with Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, who says the government's crypto donation platform has raised $70M+ as of April 1 — Quick Take — The Block spoke with Alexander Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
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How Brad Smith helps Microsoft avoid government scrutiny by being amicable with regulators while directing negative attention at the company's Big Tech rivals — President Brad Smith has taken an amicable role with regulators. Rivals say he also directs negative attention toward them.
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Sources: Truth Social's CTO Josh Adams and product chief Billy Boozer have quit, following a troubled launch for the Trump-backed social network — The two Southern tech entrepreneurs had the two qualities that Donald Trump's Truth Social startup needed: tech-industry expertise …
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How Apple's rumored iPhone and other hardware subscriptions will squeeze more revenue from its users, and why the company may expand its financial services — Apple's in-the-works iPhone hardware subscription service will squeeze more revenue from its giant user base.
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Huawei promotes CFO Meng Wanzhou, daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, as one of three rotating chairs, six months after her detention in Canada — SHANGHAI — Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has promoted chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou to a key role just half a year …
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As the first cases involving NFTs hit court dockets, a look at the issues, including outright scams, gaps in securities regulation, and contract enforcement — As the first cases involving NFTs hit the dockets, courts will decide questions around ownership, art, and commerce.
Tweets: @glynmoody, @wired, and @bruceqburke
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US record keepers and watchdogs worry that Wickr and other messaging apps with auto-deletion help the CBP and other agencies sidestep transparency requirements — In October, Laurence Brewer, the chief records officer of the National Archives and Records Administration … | Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
German startup lemon.markets, which makes APIs for developers to build stock trading features, raises a €15M seed led by Lakestar and Lightspeed — Quick Take — Stock trading API startup lemon.markets has raised €15 million ($17 million) in a seed round led by Lakestar … | Alonso Soto / Bloomberg: |
Spain plans an €11B investment to develop microchips and semiconductors, aiming to bolster its economic recovery and reduce its reliance on imported technology — Spain plans to invest 11 billion euros ($12.4 billion) to develop microchips and semiconductors as part of a series … | damsondao / P — Mirror: |
Unpacking Terra's design for its algorithmic stablecoins and how partial collateralization using bitcoin reserves could impact its price stabilization mechanism — As Terra climbed crypto market cap rankings at the start of 2022 while most of the market dumped or stalled … | Finextra: |
French startup Budget Insight, which helps clients initiate payments and aggregate financial data and documents, raises $35M from PSG Equity — Budget Insight, the leading aggregator of banking and financial data in France and a pioneer of Open Finance in Europe, is pleased to announce $35m …
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