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Sources: Google has proposed splitting parts of its ad-tech business into a separate entity under Alphabet, to head off a possible US antitrust lawsuit — Tech giant's offers stop short of the asset sales preferred by Justice Department antitrust enforcers
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A former investment manager sues Celsius for fraud, saying the crypto lender ran a Ponzi scheme by using customer deposits to rig the price of its crypto token — A former investment manager at Celsius Network sued the crypto lender on Thursday, saying it used customer deposits to rig …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has become more vocal and aggressive internally; ex-executive: “Twitter is willing to go to war” to make the Musk deal happen — The $44bn takeover of Twitter has been punctuated by public clashes between two executives with wildly differing styles …
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| The Verge: |
Rogers is experiencing a major outage, affecting internet and phone services, including 911 calls, in parts of Canada, and is “working hard to restore services” — Rogers confirmed the outage but has no ETA for a fix — Canadian telecom Rogers is suffering …
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| Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Tether says it liquidated a loan to Celsius without incurring any losses; the bitcoin-denominated loan to Celsius was overcollateralized about 130% — - Tether says a loan taken by struggling crypto firm Celsius has been liquidated and no losses were suffered.
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Congress demands info from period tracking apps and data brokers, including policies on geofencing, as part of an investigation into reproductive health data — The move comes directly in response to Motherboard's own investigations into how data brokers have provided access to location data related to abortion clinics.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
In a shareholder letter, CEO Peter Smith says Blockchain.com could lose ~$270M in loans to Three Arrows Capital, but that the exchange “remains liquid, solvent” — Blockchain.com “remains liquid, solvent and our customers will not be impacted,” wrote CEO Peter Smith in a letter to shareholders.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft rolls back blocking VBA macro scripts by default in Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, and Word, “based on feedback” and “to make improvements” — While Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would block VBA macros on downloaded documents by default …
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| Associated Press: |
A New York state law passed last week will require concealed carry gun permit applicants to submit a list of social media accounts from the previous three years — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As missed warning signs pile up in investigations of mass killings, New York state is rolling out a novel strategy … | Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US DOJ indicts a Florida man for allegedly importing $1B worth of counterfeit Cisco equipment from China and selling it on Amazon and eBay — Onur Aksoy allegedly imported thousands of fake Cisco networking devices from China. … A Miami-based CEO has been arrested …
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Tweets: @snmishra, @plantealex, @davemcclure, @kriskoeller, and @niubi
| Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
Coalition, which offers cyber threat insurance and a real-time risk assessment tool, raised a $250M Series F at a $5B valuation, up from $3.5B in September 2021 — As provider of what it calls “Active Insurance,” Coalition not only offers insurance coverage against cyberthreats … | The Information: |
Source: Oracle considered cost reductions of up to $1B that could result in thousands of layoffs as soon as August, mostly impacting staff in the US and Europe — Oracle recently considered cost reductions of up to $1 billion that could result in thousands of layoffs as soon as August …
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