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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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| Politico: |
Sources: a bipartisan bill that would ban Big Tech companies from favoring their products faces 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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| The Markup: |
An investigation finds Apple, Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have launched a coordinated campaign 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether launches a new stablecoin, MXNT, pegged to the Mexican peso, initially available on Ethereum, Tron, and Polygon blockchains — Quick Take — Tether has launched a new stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the Mexican peso. — It will be initially available on Ethereum, Tron and Polygon.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Human Rights Watch finds 89% of 164 remote learning apps and sites used during the pandemic in 49 countries shared student data with marketers and data brokers — The educational tools used by students during the pandemic shared their information with advertisers and data brokers that could track … | 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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| 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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| Bloomberg Línea: |
Source: Brazilian e-commerce startup Vtex, which has an $820M market cap, cut ~200 jobs, ~13% of its workforce; Mexican crypto exchange Bitso laid off 80+ staff — Bloomberg Línea — Latin American unicorns Vtex and Bitso laid off hundreds of employees on Thursday (May 26).| 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.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Dell beats with Q1 revenue of $26.1B vs. $25B est., up 16% YoY, with revenue from commercial PCs rising 22% YoY to $12B, and net income of $1.07B, up 62% YoY — Dell Technologies Inc. reported quarterly revenue that topped analysts estimates on strong demand for business PCs and networking services … | 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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