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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Twitter appoints Elon Musk to its board after he bought a 9.2% stake in the company; Musk cannot own over 14.9% of common stock during his term or 90 days after — - Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors after taking a 9.2% stake in the social media company, according to a release filed with the SEC.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
If Elon Musk wants to change Twitter, he might have to gesture in the direction of ESG or profitability to get other shareholders to support him — Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today but, Elon. So here we are. — Oh Elon — Look this all makes complete sense, obvious, intuitive, simple sense.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will let Windows 11 PCs boot straight to Windows 365 Cloud PCs and switch between cloud and native desktops using the virtual desktops feature — Windows is getting even more cloud-powered features — Microsoft put PCs in the cloud with Windows 365 last year …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils a refreshed Windows 11 File Explorer with tabs, favorites, and a new homepage, although the release date is unclear — Microsoft is refreshing the File Explorer — Microsoft is bringing tabs to the File Explorer in Windows 11 soon, alongside a refreshed design that makes …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Plex updates its app with universal search across a user's subscription services, a watchlist, and other discovery features; the service says it has 13M MAUs — Plex has an audacious plan to become the daily go-to app for everyone's streaming needs: The media center app rolled out new universal search …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces WWDC will be held June 6 through June 10 as a virtual event; Apple will host an invite-only watch party on June 6 at Apple Park — Apple today announced that its 33rd annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 6 to Friday, June 10.
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| Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept: |
Internal Amazon documents show its planned internal messaging app would block union-related words, including “union”, “grievance”, and “pay raise” — Amazon will block and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining … | Loren Grush / The Verge: |
Amazon's Project Kuiper books 83 satellite launches over five years to deploy most of its 3,236 satellites, which will beam internet to earth — The subsidiary is partnering with Arianespace, ULA, and Blue Origin — Project Kuiper — Amazon's planned internet-from-space initiative …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces a preview of ARM-based chips for Azure virtual machines, using Ampere Altra CPUs — It's been a long time coming, but Microsoft is making available a preview of Azure VMs supporting Arm-based processors from Ampere. — It's been a long road, but Microsoft announced …
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| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
German police shut down darknet market Hydra Market, which had €1.23B in 2020 revenue, and seize 543 bitcoins — The Hydra Market's bitcoin privacy mixer complicated the investigation, police said. — German authorities seized $25 million in bitcoin (BTC) as they shut down Hydra Market …
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
A look at Axie Infinity “managers”, who loan in-game NFTs to other players in exchange for a cut of any profits and depend on a constant influx of new players — Managers in play-to-earn game Axie Infinity employ large teams of “scholars” who can't afford their own NFTs even as the game's economy spirals.
Tweets: @bigblackjacobin, @tolstoybb, @willoremus, @jonsarlin, @carnage4life, @benjysarlin, @molly0xfff, @taylorlorenz, and @bitfinexed
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CryptoSlam: around 95%, or $18B, of the total trading volume on NFT marketplace LooksRare are users selling tokens to earn rewards, not genuine NFT trades — A closer look at the LooksRare platform that has quickly become the leading NFT marketplace by trading volume shows that most of the activity …
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| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Crypto investment firm Paradigm says it has $13.2B under management, up 343% from December 2020; a16z has $54.6B, Sequoia $85.5B, and Tiger Global $124.7B — Andreessen Horowitz AUM rises 53% to $54.6 billion — In previously unreported financial filings, some of the technology industry's … | Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
A look at subreddit r/Place, which lets users build collective art by posting a colored pixel every five minutes and had 72M tiles placed by Sunday night — Since last Friday, millions of Reddit users have banded together to collectively generate a massive, collaborative piece of artwork that has become a viral phenomenon.
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Block is contacting 8.2M Cash App customers in the US after a breach caused by a former employee four months ago exposed some of their account info — Block has confirmed a data breach involving a former employee who downloaded reports from Cash App that contained some U.S. customer information.| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Hivemapper, which wants to build a decentralized digital mapping network on Solana, raises an $18M Series A led by Multicoin Capital — Hivemapper rewards users with tokens for passively capturing mapping data with dashcams in a model inspired by Helium. — In brief
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| Bloomberg: |
FTX makes a “significant” investment in stock exchange IEX, made famous by Michael Lewis' “Flash Boys”; IEX represented 2.7% of US equities volume in March — Crypto exchange FTX US agreed to take a stake in IEX Group Inc., owner of the stock exchange made famous by …
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Tweets: @brett_ftxus, @iex, @dlauer, @ftx_official, and @mayazi
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Appwrite, an open-source “backend-as-a-service” startup, raises a $27M Series A led by Tiger Global — Sign up here. — Appwrite, an open source backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that enables companies to forget about infrastructure and focus squarely on the front end …
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Remote, an HR service that helps companies hire and manage remote employees across 60+ countries, raises $300M led by Vision Fund 2 at a ~$3B valuation — Remote Technology Inc., a startup which makes it easier for businesses to hire international employees, said it raised $300 million at valuation of almost $3 billion.| TechCrunch: |
Apple confirms that it has been piloting a feature with Disney+ that would let developers automatically charge users for subscription price increases — Apple may be changing how iOS subscriptions operate when price increases are involved. Recently, some developers noticed …
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| George Kaloudis / CoinDesk: |
Lightning Labs raises a $70M Series B for its Lightning Network-powered Taro protocol, which could bring stablecoins and other assets to Bitcoin's blockchain — The Taproot-powered “Taro” protocol aims to bring low-fee stablecoin and asset transfers to the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
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