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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Broadcom offers to acquire VMware for ~$61B in cash and stock, paying $142.50 per share, a nearly 49% premium, 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 …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney on creating the metaverse, Unreal Engine's role, Apple's and Google's app store monopolies, Meta's metaverse investment, and more — Online game Fortnite is arguably the closest thing to the metaverse that exists today. Some 70mn gamers immerse themselves …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
A profile of Stripe co-founders John and Patrick Collison; sources: Stripe 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.| 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.
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple plans to bump US hourly workers' pay to $22+ per hour, up 45% from 2018, amid inflation and unionization pushes; US starting salaries are also set 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; some have to repay loans they took from the company for vested shares within 90 days — One-click checkout company Bolt Financial yesterday laid off 185 employees, or approximately one-third of its workforce …
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Bolt, Crunchbase News, Protocol, New York Times, The Economic Times, Market Intelligence, Fortune, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, New York Post, San Francisco Business Journal, City A.M., Axios, and Tech in Asia
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| Kyle Alspach / Protocol: |
Cloud security startup Lacework, which employed 1,000+ in March 2022, lays off 20% of its workforce; Lacework has raised $1.85B including $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 …
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Lacework, SiliconANGLE, SecurityWeek, iTech Post, Beyond Search, and govinfosecurity.com
Tweets: @gergelyorosz, @ashwinv800, @narmacnetworth, @sweis, @coffeecraftcode, @endingwithali, @kylealspach, @petecheslock, @sawaba, and @riddle245
| Sujith Somraaj / Decrypt: |
Binance, FTX, Crypto.com, Huobi, Bitfinex, Kucoin, and other exchanges pledge support for Do Kwon's Terra 2.0, set to launch on May 27 by airdropping tokens — Cryptocurrency exchanges have pledged support to Terra's upcoming relaunch, following the passing of a proposal to launch a new blockchain.
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| Bloomberg: |
The tech market collapse, aided by macroeconomic forces, is an opportunity to reckon with wildly inflated valuations, overpaid VCs, and crypto pyramid schemes — Over the past half-century, Silicon Valley has toggled between two similar-sounding pursuits that are often in conflict: wealth creation and moneymaking.
Tweets: @bradstone, @hharrisemea, @retogregori, @mark_dow, @mpelletiercio, @jessefelder, @revshark, and @thestalwart
| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
Sources: Substack dropped efforts to raise money, after talks to raise $75M to $100M at a $750M to $1B valuation, and told investors it had ~$9M revenue in 2021 — Amid an industrywide downturn, venture investors are preaching austerity and halting new deals, particularly for companies that have spent aggressively on growth.
Tweets: @benmullin, @riddle245, @joy, @suldrew, @gaberivera, @tysonbrody, @chaykak, @tomaxwell, @kateclarktweets, and @pkafka
| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Sony plans to ramp up PlayStation 5 production as supply chain issues ease, and a radical broadening of its game portfolio, including more PC and mobile titles — Sony Group Corp (6758.T) said it plans to ramp up production of its PlayStation 5 console as supply chain snarls ease and signalled …
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Video Games Chronicle, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Verge, Engadget, Game Developer, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizchina, PCMag, TheGamer, Engadget, and Gameranx. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to slow hiring in Windows, Office, and Teams groups, citing a need to realign staffing priorities; EVP Rajesh Jha must approve all new hires — Microsoft Corp. will slow hiring in its Windows, Office and Teams chat and conferencing software groups, citing a need …
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Computerworld, Protocol, GeekWire, Windows Central, Thurrott, CNBC, OnMSFT.com, and Slashdot. Tweets: @dinabass
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Analysis of 164 remote learning apps and sites used in 49 countries during the pandemic finds ~90% shared student data with ad tech companies and data brokers — The educational tools used by students during the pandemic shared their information with advertisers and data brokers that could track … | 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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| 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.
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| The Markup: |
An investigation finds Apple, Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have launched coordinated campaigns in 31 states against data privacy legislation since 2021 — Coordinated industry lobbying is overwhelming the scattered efforts of consumer groups and privacy-minded lawmakers
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Tweets: @themarkup, @leoniehaimson, @alfredwkng, @funnymonkey, @stephenjadler, and @leoniehaimson
| FinSMEs: |
Los Angeles-based BuildOps, which makes all-in-one management software for commercial contractors, raises a $43M Series A led by Next47 — BuildOps, a Los Angeles, CA-based all-in-one management software built specifically for the modern commercial contractor, raised $43 million in Series A funding.| Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg: |
The UK's CMA opens an investigation into whether Google abused its dominant position in ad tech to illegally favor its ad exchange services and exclude rivals — The UK's antitrust watchdog started a new investigation of Alphabet Inc.'s Google, over suspicions it may have abused …
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Tweets: @cmagovuk, @jason_kint, and @cmagovuk
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Oura debuts the Gucci x Oura Ring wearable with its Generation 3 tech to monitor live heart rate, sleep, activity, and more, available in select stores for $950 — 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.
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The Verge, XDA Developers, CNET, WeRSM, PCMag, WWD, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Highsnobiety, Input, and Harper's BAZAAR
Tweets: @gucci and @darian314
| 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” …
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Tweets: @thejusticedept, @bashco_, @janschakowsky, @matthew_d_green, @adam_k_levin, @jimmypatronis, @can, @ewa_jodlowska, @wbm312, @b_fung, and @profcarroll
| Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal: |
Some hotels are looking to guarantee bookings revenue by partnering with startups like Pinktada that convert stays into NFTs to be bought and sold by guests — NFTs also are being used to raise capital to buy golf courses or land, giving token buyers a stake in the projects
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Osbon Capital Weekly. Tweets: @maxwellstrachan, @tante, @thekafkadude, @eden_holdings, @xenollamas, @mylesudland, @nameshiv, @evacide, @thelincoln, @blackamazon, and @sub8u
| 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.
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