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Twitter agrees to pay $150M to the FTC, settling allegations that it misrepresented the “security and privacy” of user data between May 2013 and September 2019 — Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) has settled with U.S. authorities over allegations it misrepresented the “security and privacy” …
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| CNBC: |
Filing: Elon Musk plans to provide an additional $6.25B in equity financing for his Twitter buyout, boosting his commitment to $33.5B; Twitter's stock jumps 7%+ — A new filing reveals that Elon Musk plans to front $33.5 billion in his bid to take over Twitter.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter's board of directors, effective today; Dorsey has discussed rolling over his 2.4% Twitter stake into Elon Musk's takeover deal — Jack Dorsey is leaving the board of Twitter, effective today. The move had been telegraphed last fall, when he stepped down as the social media company's CEO.
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| CNBC: |
Twitter shareholders vote to remove Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban from the company's board; Durban is a long-time business associate and backer of Elon Musk — - A Twitter spokesperson told CNBC that Egon Durban “has tendered his resignation” from the board, but that the board has to decide whether to accept it.
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Leaked video: Apple SVP of Retail + People Deirdre O'Brien tells employees that joining a union would make it harder for Apple to improve working conditions — In an internal video circulated among Apple's 58,000 retail employees, Apple's vice-president of retail suggested that a union …
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| TechCrunch: |
Sources: one-click checkout service Bolt has laid off 100+ employees across go-to-market, sales, and recruiting roles amid slowing revenue and customer growth — One-click checkout startup Bolt has laid off at least 100 employees and counting across go-to-market, sales and recruiting roles, sources say.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
DuckDuckGo confirms a researcher's findings that its browser allows some Microsoft trackers on third-party sites, citing a Microsoft search content agreement — The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, its fourth and largest so far, allocating about $1.5B for seed investments and $3B for venture investments — Venture capital group launches its largest fund to date focused on digital assets despite market downturn
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Encrypted email service ProtonMail rebrands itself as Proton, and unifies its calendar, storage, and VPN products under Free, Mail Plus, and Unlimited plans — For the privacy-minded, ProtonMail has been one of the better options for secure email — you can get an (admittedly basic) …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Peter Thiel steps down from Meta's board, on which he secured a seat in 2005 after investing $500K; Meta announced in February 2022 that Thiel would be leaving — Peter Thiel has officially stepped down from Meta's board, a position he's held since Facebook was in its infancy.
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| Kate Irwin / Decrypt: |
DeFi-focused startup Common raises $20M from Spark Capital, Polychain, Jump, Wintermute, and others for Commonwealth, its community management platform for DAOs — Common's investors include BitDAO, Spark Capital, and Jump. … Common's new funds will go toward the further development …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google starts rolling out ads in YouTube Shorts globally and says advertisers will be able to make their video ads on Shorts more shoppable later in 2022 — Google is starting to gradually roll out ads in YouTube Shorts around the world, the company announced at its Marketing Live event this week.| Ashley Stewart / Insider: |
Interviews with former and current Microsoft employees suggest a widespread pattern of executive misconduct persists, years after Satya Nadella vowed to end it — The Microsoft executive walked into the small, windowless room in Studio C at about 8 o'clock that evening.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Zip, whose cloud SaaS product lets businesses simplify their internal procurement process, raises a $43M Series B led by YC Continuity at a $1.2B valuation — The process to make any purchase within a business can be long and cumbersome, involving multiple departments and lots of back and forth.| Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC: |
Airspace, a logistics startup that uses AI to optimize time-critical deliveries globally, raises $70M led by DBL Partners, bringing its total funding to $138M — - Airspace, a logistics start-up that focuses on applying AI and machine learning to time-critical delivery … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: business travel and expense management service TripActions is in talks to raise funding at a ~$9B valuation; TripActions raised $275M in October 2021 — Startup TripActions is in talks for new round of funding at a higher valuation, signaling investors remain interested … | Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple to raise pay for US hourly workers to $22/hour, a 45% rise from 2018, amid inflation and unionization push; starting salaries in US also expected to rise — The iPhone maker faces store unionization attempts, higher inflation — Apple Inc. AAPL .11%▲ is boosting pay … | Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg: |
Luminar hires CJ Moore, a manager on Apple's car project who joined in August 2021 from Tesla where he was an Autopilot director, to lead software development — Luminar Technologies Inc. said it hired CJ Moore, a manager on Apple Inc.'s car project and a former director for Autopilot projects …
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| Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News: |
After actor and producer Seth Green lost four NFTs to a phishing scam, his show based on his stolen Bored Ape NFT is in doubt; OpenSea says it froze the NFTs — Actor and producer Seth Green was robbed of several NFTs this month after succumbing to a phishing scam that inadvertently threw …
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| Chad Bray / South China Morning Post: |
The UK orders a security review of chipmaker Newport Wafer Fab's sale to Nexperia, the Dutch subsidiary of China's Wingtech, after reportedly not intervening — Assessment of US$79 million acquisition of Britain's biggest semiconductor maker comes under new powers conferred by National Security …
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