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Sources: Meta has drawn up plans to add “social tokens”, lending services, and a non-blockchain virtual currency that employees dubbed “Zuck Bucks” to its apps — Meta has drawn up plans to introduce virtual coins, tokens and lending services to its apps …
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The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, TheStreet, Benzinga, TradingBTC.com, Telegraph, and Social Media Today
| Wall Street Journal: |
Google Play removes dozens of Android apps, including Muslim prayer apps with 10M+ downloads, after researchers find malware tied to a US defense contractor — Code placed in consumer-facing apps is tied to U.S. national-security contractors, documents show
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The AppCensus Blog, Fox Business, Gizmodo, CNET, KnowTechie, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, Protocol, SiliconANGLE, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @appcensusinc, @appcensusinc, @edwardnh, @appcensusinc, @baldingsworld, @cremnob, @dnvolz, @justinhendrix, and @thezedwards
| Jillian Ward / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk refiles his Twitter stake's SEC disclosure to classify himself as an active investor; Musk bought his 9.1% stake in cash from January 31 to April 1 — Elon Musk refiled the disclosure of his stake in Twitter Inc. to classify himself as an active investor, making the change …
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land, and Ars Technica
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: online fast fashion retailer Shein raised between $1B and $2B in a round closed last week, valuing it at $100B; Shein was valued at ~$15B in 2020 — China-based fast-fashion seller now worth more than H&M and Zara combined — Fast-fashion retailer Shein was valued at $100 billion … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases DALL-E 2, a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of its text-to-image generation program with new capabilities, to researchers in preview — Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
In a court-authorized March operation, the FBI cut off the servers of the Cyclops Blink botnet, tied to Russia's Sandworm, from Asus and WatchGuard routers — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has disclosed it carried out an operation in March to target a massive botnet controlled by Russian intelligence.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta won't hold its F8 developer conference in 2022, instead holding Conversations, a “business messaging event” on May 19, and an AR/VR event “later this year” — Meta is pausing the event in 2022 — Meta won't be holding its F8 developer conference in 2022, the company announced Wednesday.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Senator Patrick Toomey introduces a bill to regulate stablecoins, including defining a “payment stablecoin”, creating a license for issuers, and more — The Stablecoin TRUST Act would give stablecoin issuers a variety of regulatory regimes to abide by, but enforce disclosure and redemption requirements.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nord Security, the Lithuania-based startup behind NordVPN, raises $100M, its first ever funding, at a $1.6B valuation led by Novator Ventures — VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations …
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SiliconANGLE, Tech.eu, CNBC, and cybernews.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: banks including JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are considering whether to use Zelle as a payment option to compete with Visa and Mastercard — The money-transfer service boomed amid pandemic. Some banks want to expand it to retail payments.
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PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, and Protocol
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon will increase its Music Unlimited plan on Prime from $7.99/month to $8.99/month and its Single Device plan from $3.99/month to $4.99/month on May 5 — Amazon is increasing the price of its Unlimited Music subscription for Prime members, the company announced on its website.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the SEC is investigating how Amazon disclosed its use of third-party seller data for its business; source: the probe has been under way for over a year — Tech giant's use of third-party sellers' data is a focus of regulator's probe, a person familiar with the matter says
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| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Samsung expects highest Q1 operating profit of $11.6B since 2018, up 50% YoY, and revenue of $63B, up 18% YoY on strong smartphone and microchip sales — South Korean electronics group's strong sales undercut by performance concerns against rivals Apple and TSMC
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ZDNet, Nikkei Asia, Bloomberg, and Reuters
| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Analysis: 50 out of 150 US police reports mentioning Apple's AirTags were of women describing stalking, 25 of which suspected ex-partners, husbands, or bosses — Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to hide and block Play Store apps that don't target an Android API within two years of the latest major Android release, starting on November 1 — Google is preparing to clear its Play Store of outdated apps. The company warned Android app developers that starting on November 1 … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
SmartHop, which makes an AI-powered smart dispatch service for interstate truckers, raises a $30M Series B led by Sozo Ventures — SmartHop, a startup that uses AI to help interstate truckers make their routes more efficient and lucrative by removing administrative headaches …
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| Rebecca Torrence / Fierce Healthcare: |
IntelyCare, whose app matches nurses with open shifts at post-acute care settings, raises a $115M Series C at a $1.1B valuation led by Janus Henderson Investors — Nurse staffing platform IntelyCare is now valued at $1.1 billion after landing $115 million in series C funding.
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hitconsultant.net, MobiHealthNews, and FinSMEs
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
ReadySet, which is building a database infrastructure to help developers build real-time applications, raises a $24M Series A led by Index Ventures — ReadySet, a company providing database infrastructure to help developers build real-time applications, today announced that it raised $24 million …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Berkshire Hathaway discloses that it has purchased ~121M shares of HP Inc for a 11.4% stake worth $4.2B based on HP's closing stock price on Wednesday of $34.91 — Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) disclosed on Wednesday that it has purchased nearly 121 million shares of HP Inc (HPQ.N) …
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Financial Times and Bloomberg
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
OpenSea adds Solana NFT trading support in beta; a marketplace search shows 865K NFTs minted on Solana — At long last, Solana support is finally live on OpenSea—in beta mode. — In brief — Solana NFTs have been added to OpenSea, the largest overall NFT marketplace.
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OpenSea, The Block, and OpenSea Blog
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US DOJ charges Russian national Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov for helping operate and administer the Hydra Market darknet, after German police shut down the site — The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed charges against Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov, a 30-year-old Russian national accused …
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BleepingComputer, BBC, Digital Trends, CoinQuora, and Tech Monitor
Tweets: @snlyngaas, @alfonslopeztena, @andysheehankdka, @ericgeller, @vickerysec, @campuscodi, @technollama, @campuscodi, and @a_greenberg
| Washington Post: |
Apple restores the “Smart Voting” app run by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's supporters in Russia; Apple removed the app after the Kremlin threatened its execs — Apple has resumed allowing Russians to download an app run by supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny …
Tweets: @davedrolet
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Sky Mavis, which runs Axie Infinity, raises $150M led by Binance, with participation from Animoca, a16z, and others, to reimburse users after the Ronin hack — Sky Mavis, the creator of play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, has raised $150 million to reimburse its users who lost funds during …
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The Lunacian, Binance Blog, VICE, ZDNet, Binance, CoinDesk, Financial Times, CoinJournal, Protocol, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and CryptoSlate
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