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Twitter sues Elon Musk to force the completion of his acquisition of Twitter in the Chancery Court in Delaware — The question of whether Elon Musk must buy Twitter, as he agreed to do in April, is headed to a court in Delaware. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Sources: Apple ends its consulting agreement with Jony Ive that made Apple his firm's primary client and limited Ive from taking on work Apple found competitive — Three years after promising to work “long into the future” with the man behind its candy-colored computers, Apple and Mr. Ive are through.
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| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
Medium founder Ev Williams is stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by Coach.me CEO Tony Stubblebine; Williams plans to start a new holding company/research lab — Mr. Williams, the company's founder and a co-founder of Twitter and Blogger, said in a post that he planned to start a new holding company and research lab.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A critique of Ev Williams' 10-year tenure at Medium and how it got caught in the middle between Substack and well-funded publishers like BuzzFeed and Vice — How Medium got stuck in the middle. PLUS: Twitter sues Musk — Few tech CEOs can claim to have steered the course of online conversation more than Ev Williams.| Fortune: |
Lightspeed Ventures raised $6.6B across three US funds and $500M for an India and Southeast Asia fund, as it debuts a dedicated team to back blockchain founders — This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.| The Verge: |
Sundar Pichai told staff Google will slow hiring for the rest of 2022 and will have to work with “greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger” — ‘Greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger’ — Google has told employees that it'll be “slowing down the pace of hiring …
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In Germany, South Korea, and other countries, BMW starts selling subscriptions or charging one-time fees to unlock heated seats, engine sound options, and more — The auto industry is racing towards a future full of microtransactions — BMW is now selling subscriptions for heated seats …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Executives from Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google, and 500+ business, education, and nonprofit leaders urge US states to boost computer science education — More than 500 business, education and nonprofit leaders have teamed with Seattle-based computer education nonprofit Code.org …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Google says YouTube TV has 5M+ subscribers, including free trial users, making it the US' biggest internet pay TV provider and fifth-largest TV distributor — Google says YouTube TV has surpassed 5 million accounts — making it the U.S.'s biggest internet-based pay TV service.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says a phishing campaign targeted 10K+ organizations since September 2021 by hijacking Office 365's authentication process even on accounts with MFA — Campaign that steals email has targeted at least 10,000 organizations since October. — On Tuesday, Microsoft detailed …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The Magic Leap 2 mixed reality device to launch on September 30 with a lighter, smaller design and a wider FoV, starting at $3,299, ~$1K more than Magic Leap 1 — About $1,000 more than the original — The Magic Leap 2 headset is launching on September 30th for a starting price of $3,299.| Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk, in replies to a Breitbart tweet about Trump calling him a “bullshit artist”, says Trump should “hang up his hat” and DeSantis would easily beat Biden — Former president had mocked the Tesla boss's attempt to take over Twitter
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| J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify acquires Heardle, describing the music trivia game inspired by Wordle as a “tool for musical discovery”, and plans to keep it as a standalone site — The game, which challenges users to identify a song based on short audio clips, will remain free to play for users.
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Animoca Brands announces a $75.32M raise at a $5.9B valuation, the second tranche of its $360M round in January 2022 that valued the NFT company at $5.5B — The infusion is the second tranche of January's funding round, which nabbed almost $360 million and valued the investment company at $5.5 billion.
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| Peter White / Deadline: |
HBO and HBO Max receive 140 Emmy nominations, while Netflix gets 105, Hulu 58, Apple TV+ 52, Disney+ 34, Amazon 30, and broadcast network TV a new low of 86 — The Emmy nomination battle between HBO and Netflix took a new turn this morning with the Warner Bros. Discovery company soaring past its streaming rival.
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| Bloomberg: |
PE firm Madison Dearborn to acquire a majority stake in Unison, a software provider to the US government, from Carlyle; sources: the deal values Unison at $1B+ — Madison Dearborn Partners is acquiring a majority stake in software company Unison Software Inc. from fellow private equity firm Carlyle Group Inc.
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Nothing announces its phone (1), starting at £399 with LED strips on the back, two 50MP rear cameras including an ultrawide lens, in 40+ markets but not the US — The startup's debut smartphone is finally here — After weeks of teases, Nothing is finally announcing its debut smartphone …
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| Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Strider, which scours open-source data from China to identify technologies most at risk of being stolen and spot potential IP thieves — Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has for decades been a hotbed of US nuclear experimentation. It's also a target for countries seeking to steal American secrets.| Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: |
Liquidators say they can't find Three Arrows Capital founders Kyle Davies and Zhu Su, and seek to subpoena them to prevent the dissipation of the fund's assets — The founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital haven't been cooperating in the firm's liquidation process …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Filing: Amazon and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are developing “personalized” cancer vaccines and have launched an FDA-approved clinical trial — - Amazon is working with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to develop cancer vaccines, according to a filing.
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| Washington Post: |
An unnamed ex-Twitter employee tells the January 6 committee that Twitter went easy on Trump because it “relished” knowing it was his favorite social network — In testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, the unidentified former employee said they'd tried for months 'to raise the reality that …
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