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May 26, 2022, 12:20 PM

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Chavi Mehta / Reuters:
Broadcom announces plans to acquire VMware for around $61B in cash and stock, paying $142.50 per share, and will assume VMware's $8B in net debt  —  May 26 (Reuters) - Broadcom Inc (AVGO.O) said on Thursday it will buy cloud service provider VMware Inc (VMW.N) in a $61 billion cash-and-stock deal …
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
Apple will raise the hourly pay for US workers to $22, up 45% from 2018, amid inflation and a unionization push; US starting salaries are also expected to rise  —  The iPhone maker faces store unionization attempts, higher inflation  —  Apple Inc. AAPL .11%▲ is boosting pay …
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Dan Primack / Axios:
Bolt Financial laid off 185 employees, or about one-third of its workforce, a few of whom will have to pay back loans they took from the company within 90 days  —  One-click checkout company Bolt Financial yesterday laid off 185 employees, or approximately one-third of its workforce …
Kyle Alspach / Protocol:
Cloud security company Lacework, which said in March that it has 1,000 employees, lays off 20% of its workforce; the company last raised $1.3B in November 2021  —  A well-funded startup in the cybersecurity industry, Lacework, has become the latest tech firm to disclose a major round …
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
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” …
Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
Q&A with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney on creating the metaverse, growing the Unreal Engine, Apple and Google's app store policies, Meta's metaverse plans, and more  —  Online game Fortnite is arguably the closest thing to the metaverse that exists today.  Some 70mn gamers immerse themselves …
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to keep iPhone production in 2022 at ~220M, about the same as 2021, compared to ~240M market forecasts, amid inflation and a tough market  —  Apple Inc. is planning to keep iPhone production roughly flat in 2022, a conservative stance as the year turns increasingly challenging for the smartphone industry.
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
A profile of Stripe's John and Patrick Collison; sources say the startup's gross revenue rose 60% YoY to nearly $12B in 2021 as net revenue reached almost $2.5B  —  Billionaire brothers John and Patrick Collison built Stripe into one of the world's most-hyped, highest valued — and profitable! — startups, worth some $95 billion.
Sujith Somraaj / Decrypt:
Binance, FTX, Crypto.com, Bitfinex, and other exchanges have pledged support for Do Kwon's Terra 2.0, set to launch on Friday by airdropping tokens  —  Cryptocurrency exchanges have pledged support to Terra's upcoming relaunch, following the passing of a proposal to launch a new blockchain.
Sam Nussey / Reuters:
Sony says it plans to ramp up PlayStation 5 production and signals a radical broadening of its game portfolio, including more titles on PC and mobile  —  Sony Group Corp (6758.T) said it plans to ramp up production of its PlayStation 5 console as supply chain snarls ease and signalled …
Bloomberg:
The tech market collapse, aided by macroeconomic forces, is an opportunity to reckon with inflated valuations, overzealous VCs, and the rise of crypto startups  —  Over the past half-century, Silicon Valley has toggled between two similar-sounding pursuits that are often in conflict: wealth creation and moneymaking.
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.
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 rises 5%+  —  A new filing reveals that Elon Musk plans to front $33.5 billion in his bid to take over Twitter.
Noi Mahoney / FreightWaves:
Fleet management software provider Motive, formerly called KeepTruckin, raises a $150M Series F led by Insight and Kleiner Perkins at a $2.85B valuation  —  Motive raised $150 million to invest in products aimed at the “safety, productivity and profitability” of businesses.
Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
The UK's CMA opens an investigation into whether Google illegally favored its own ad tech exchange services and excluded rivals  —  The UK's antitrust watchdog started a new investigation of Alphabet Inc.'s Google, over suspicions it may have abused its dominant position across its ad tech …
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Oura partners with Gucci on the Gucci x Oura Ring wearable, letting users monitor heart rate, sleep, and more, available at select stores for $1,100  —  Oura, the startup that's pushing the limits of how small a wearable can be, just announced a collaboration that could boost its profile considerably.
Politico:
Sources: a bipartisan bill that would stop platforms from favoring their own products is facing resistance from some Senate Democrats worried about the midterms  —  A bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the nation's largest tech companies is facing fresh resistance from a faction …

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