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Twitter's board says “Mr. Musk agreed to a transaction at $54.20 per share” and that it intends to “close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement” — New York CNN Business — … Who wants to own Twitter? Maybe Elon Musk doesn't.
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Filing: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund bought a 5% stake in Nintendo worth $2.98B; the PIF disclosed 5%+ stakes in Nexon and Capcom in February 2022 — Sovereign wealth fund has already bought into Japan's Capcom and Nexon — Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has acquired …
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Amazon refreshes its Fire 7 tablet with USB-C charging, better battery life, and a 30% faster processor, and raises the price from $50 to $60, coming June 29 — And faster internals — Amazon is updating its small and inexpensive Fire 7 tablet for the first time in three years … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Acer refreshes the Swift 3 laptop, starting at $900 with a 14" OLED display, 12th Gen Intel Core H-series CPUs, and claimed 10-hour battery life, coming in July — A new 14-inch OLED for $899.99 — It wasn't too long ago that the phrase “OLED laptop” implied a luxury product.| Phillip Tracy / Gizmodo: |
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A profile of Do Kwon, the trash-talking founder of Terraform Labs, which raised $200M+ to build LUNA and UST; investors cashed out early, but traders lost big — Do Kwon, a South Korean entrepreneur, hyped the Luna and TerraUSD cryptocurrencies. Their failures have devastated some traders …
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China's top economic official meets with dozens of tech execs and experts and pledges “support” for Chinese tech companies amid a deepening economic slump — Beijing's top economic official holds meetings with executives and industry experts — China's top economic official met dozens … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
In response to rivals' complaints, Microsoft begins relaxing its cloud licensing rules in Europe, which made running its software on other clouds more expensive — Microsoft is undoing in Europe some of the restrictive cloud-licensing policies it first announced in 2019 which made running …
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Sources: Ian Goodfellow, Apple's former director of machine learning who left over the company's strict return-to-office policy, is joining Alphabet's DeepMind — An Apple Inc. executive who left over the company's stringent return-to-office policy is joining Alphabet Inc.'s DeepMind unit …
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| Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: |
Netflix cuts 150 jobs out of 11K across departments in a new round of layoffs, mostly in the US, as the company reins in costs amid slowing revenue growth — EXCLUSIVE: Layoffs are underway at Netflix today. About 150 positions out of the streamer's workforce of 11,000 are being eliminated amid … | Bloomberg: |
Four Democratic senators ask the FTC to investigate whether ID.me illegally misled consumers and government agencies about its use of facial recognition tech — A group of Democratic senators has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether identity verification company ID …
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Google's Russian subsidiary plans to file for bankruptcy, saying it cannot pay employees, suppliers, and vendors after authorities seized its local bank account — Departure of employees comes as Russian subsidiary prepares to declare bankruptcy, effectively ending the company's commercial operations in the country
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New York accuses Amazon of discriminating against pregnant workers and those with disabilities; the state seeks civil fines and an end to discriminatory conduct — - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced a state agency has filed a complaint against Amazon, alleging it discriminates …
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Celebrities face intensifying criticism for hyping crypto without highlighting the risks after this month's sell-off, as Crypto.com and FTX reduce ad spending — Crypto boosters such as Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow have been criticized for hyping virtual currency without highlighting the risks.
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CoinGecko: after Tether briefly lost its dollar peg, leading to $8.5B+ in redemptions, Circle's USDC circulation rose by ~$3.4B and Binance USD gained $1.2B — Circle's USD Coin is reaping the benefits as circulation of Tether, the world's largest stablecoin and its closest rival, continues to decline in a wave of redemptions.
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At Block's first investor day since 2017, CEO Jack Dorsey doubled down on the company's bitcoin bet; Block's stock is down from its peak of $289.23 to ~$82.05 — - At Block's first investor day since 2017, executives describe how crypto and music-streaming businesses make up an “ecosystem” beyond the original card reader.
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