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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Interviews with 15 current and former female Apple staff reveal apathy or retaliation in seven departments across six US states in the face of misconduct claims — Megan Mohr was five years into her Apple career when, in 2013, a male colleague took advantage of her after a platonic night out drinking together.
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
The Solana Foundation says exploited addresses were “created, imported, or used” in Slope mobile wallets and there's “no evidence” the protocol was compromised — Private keys may have been inadvertently compromised as a Solana mobile wallet is fingered for the major network attack.
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| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to delay iPadOS 16 by about a month, partly due to work on its multitasking features, targeting an October release alongside macOS Ventura — Apple Inc. expects to delay its next major iPad software update by about a month, taking the unusual step of not releasing …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to shut down its Facebook Live Shopping feature on October 1, as the company shifts its focus to Reels on Facebook and Instagram — Facebook is shutting down its live shopping feature on October 1st to shift its focus to Reels, the company announced in a blog post.
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| Phuong Nguyen / Reuters: |
Samsung workers at a major smartphone factory in Vietnam say business is not good and the company is cutting back, as demand for electronics slows globally — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has scaled back production at its massive smartphone plant in Vietnam, employees say … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Alibaba beats with Q1 revenue flat YoY to $30.68B, as Cloud revenue rose 10% YoY to $2.6B, and $3.3B net income; NYSE-listed stock rises 5%+ — - Alibaba reported fiscal first-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat expectations, sending shares higher in U.S. pre-market trade.
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| Bloomberg: |
BlackRock partners with Coinbase to help institutional investors manage and trade crypto, starting with bitcoin, using BlackRock's Aladdin system — BlackRock Inc. is partnering with Coinbase Global Inc. to make it easier for institutional investors to manage and trade Bitcoin …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Data.ai: users spend 4+ hours in mobile apps daily in 13 markets, including the US, the UK, Japan, and India, and 5+ hours in Indonesia, Singapore, and Brazil — Although the mobile app boom driven by pandemic lockdowns has long since passed, consumers' mobile usage is still growing.| Chainalysis: |
Analysis: $2B in crypto has been stolen from cross-chain bridges across 13 hacks in 2022 so far, accounting for 69% of total funds stolen — Following last night's exploit of the Nomad Bridge, Chainalysis estimates that $2 billion in cryptocurrency has been stolen from cross-chain bridges across 13 separate hacks so far this year.
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Decrypt, CoinDesk, Elliptic Connect, Cointelegraph, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @czdaomaker, @irinaberkon, and @chainalysis
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Tel Aviv-based Talon, which is building an enterprise browser to help reduce data breaches, raised a $100M Series A led by Evolution Equity — Talon Cyber Security Ltd., the developer of a specialized browser designed to help enterprises reduce the risk of data breaches, today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding.
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FinSMEs, CTech, VentureBeat, SecurityWeek, Talon Cyber Security, and CRN
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Activision Blizzard and NetEase scrapped a World of Warcraft mobile game after a financing dispute; sources: NetEase disbanded a team of 100+ developers — Activision Blizzard Inc. and NetEase Inc. have torpedoed a World of Warcraft smartphone game that had been in development for three years …
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Android Police, PCMag, TechRadar, PhoneArena, TouchArcade, Destructoid, WhatIfGaming, Game Rant, Washington Post, TheGamer, Android Headlines, PC Gamer, Laptop Mag, GamingBolt, GameSpot, Game Developer, Eurogamer.net, Wccftech, The Verge, Digital Trends, Windows Central, Video Games Chronicle, and GamesIndustry.biz
| Elias Leight / Billboard: |
SoundCloud cuts its global workforce by ~20% “due to a significant company transformation and the challenging economic and financial environment” — CEO Michael Weissman announced the cuts in an email, blaming them on “the challenging economic climate and financial market headwinds.”| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests an update to Spaces that introduces thematic audio stations and a personalized digest; an official announcement is some way off — Twitter is developing an updated version of its audio chat rooms product known as Spaces, TechCrunch learned and Twitter confirmed.
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Pocket-lint, iThinkDifferent, Android Headlines, Engadget, Social Media Today, iMore, and 9to5Mac
| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
Investor letter: Tiger Global's long-only fund ended Q2 down 63.6% and its flagship fund dropped 50% in H1, after it “underestimated the impact” of inflation — Chase Coleman's group sustains steep losses and admits it ‘underestimated’ effect of rising prices
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| Financial Times: |
SoftBank raised $22B in cash from deals that would sharply reduce its Alibaba stake over the coming years; SoftBank had a 23.9% stake in Alibaba as of mid-July — SoftBank has raised as much as $22bn in cash from deals that would sharply reduce its stake in Alibaba over the coming years …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Buenos Aires-based payments infrastructure startup Geopagos raised $35M led by Riverwood Capital, its first outside investment since being founded in 2013 — Geopagos, a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital.| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says it is closing its office in Hong Kong and “accelerating” its strategic partnership with Alibaba “to better serve the Greater China Region” — Salesforce is repositioning itself in China as it looks to expand the reach of its customer relationship management software in the country.
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South China Morning Post, PingWest, and Pandaily
Tweets: @jenniferxie12, @charlesmok, and @benjaminqiu
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Axio, which helps companies model cybersecurity risk, raised a $23M Series B led by Temasek's ISTARI, bringing its total funding to $30M — Axio, a platform for cybersecurity risk evaluation, today announced the closure of a $23 million Series B round led by Temasek's ISTARI …
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FinSMEs, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and SecurityWeek
| Bloomberg: |
A look at the implosion of Zilingo, valued at $1.2B five months ago, as interviews suggest the fashion marketplace struggled under CEO Ankiti Bose for years — At first glance, the implosion of vaunted fashion startup Zilingo Pte looked jarringly sudden. — When the Singapore tech darling suspended …
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