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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7B in an all-cash deal; Colin Angle will remain as iRobot CEO — Amazon this morning announced plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot for an all-cash deal valued at $1.7 billion. — “Since we started iRobot, our team has been on a mission …
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Tweets: @ow, @joannastern, @buccocapital, @matthewstoller, @colinangle, @ron_miller, @caseyjohnston, @caseynewton, @ow, @pierce, @jeffjarvis, @stacyfmitchell, @stacyfmitchell, @jjvincent, @raoulgmi, @vbagate, @benedictevans, @martinsfp, @alexhern, @irobot, @moveincircles, @nkulw, @jason_kint, @litcapital, @jjvincent, @mgsiegler, @nhageradio, @bullishrippers, @caleweissman, @buccocapital, @bongcapital, and @bongcapital
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Sources: Apple asks suppliers to ensure shipments from Taiwan to China are labeled as “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei”, after Pelosi's visit stirs tensions — Stepped up scrutiny of import documents raises disruption fears for iPhone maker
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Reuters, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Neowin, Apple Must, South China Morning Post, Patently Apple, iMore, and WRAL TechWire
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Filing: Twitter says Elon Musk's counterclaims “are factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant” and don't justify ending the deal — We still don't have Elon Musk's response to Twitter's lawsuit over his efforts to back out of his $44 billion acquisition …
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| CoinDesk: |
How crypto developer Ian Macalinao posed as 11 independent devs and created a web of DeFi protocols that temporarily inflated the total value locked on Solana — The Macalinao brothers used a web of bogus identities to create the illusion of a dev community, juicing value on the Saber protocol and Solana blockchain.
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Web3 is going just great, CryptoSlate, The Coin Crunch, and CoinGape
Tweets: @raganwald, @notbunjil, @amyhoy, @wublockchain, @carnage4life, @chainyoda, @0x7d54, @chainlinkgod, and @jwweatherman_
| Nicola Kelly / The Guardian: |
The UK government plans to require that migrants convicted of a crime scan their faces up to five times per day on a smartwatch; locations will be tracked 24/7 — Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day
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Mashable. Tweets: @nicolakelly, @rachelcoldicutt, @nicolakelly, @sarah_woolley, @nicolakelly, @mmasnick, @matthew_d_green, and @bigbrotherwatch
| Omer Benjakob / Haaretz: |
A prototype of NSO's Pegasus for Israeli police in 2014 shows the UI and features, including real-time wiretapping, reading messages, and remote camera control — Israel Police planned to present cabinet with the system eight years ago. It was intended to be capable of turning the infected phone …
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9to5Mac. Tweets: @omerbenj, @omerbenj, @haaretzcom, @msuiche, @marwasf, @avischarf, @zackwhittaker, @jsrailton, @avischarf, @omerbenj, @omerbenj, and @omerbenj
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google updates search results for queries with quotes to show where the phrase appears in the results snippet instead of an overall description of the page — Google has updated how search result snippet in Google Search for queries that contain quotes. Now, Google will show …
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The Keyword, ZDNet, Neowin, BGR, Search Engine Roundtable, and Beyond Search
Tweets: @searchliaison, @dannysullivan, @pedrodias, @aleyda, @aarontay, and @montsecano
| Soma Biswas / Wall Street Journal: |
A New York judge allows Voyager Digital to return $270M in customer cash deposits, settling one of the company's larger issues after filing for bankruptcy — Crypto broker got bankruptcy court approval to return cash deposits — Cryptocurrency brokerage firm Voyager Digital Holdings Inc. secured approval …
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The Block, Decrypt, Protos, CryptoSlate, Coinspeaker, Reuters, Neowin, Blockchain News, CryptoPotato, Cryptonews, Blockworks, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, Yahoo Money, and Forkast
Tweets: @ahcastor, @aarondbennett, @web3isgreat, and @newsasset
| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Crypto bridge Nomad says anyone returning at least 90% of stolen tokens will be viewed as a white-hat hacker and the remaining 10% will become the reward — Cryptocurrency company Nomad is offering a bounty to recoup funds spirited away in a $190 million hack that again highlighted security vulnerabilities in the digital-token sector.
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The Block, CryptoSlate, Coinspeaker, Cybernews.com, CNBC, and Cointelegraph
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YouTube tests pinch to zoom with its Premium subscribers, letting them zoom into a video, even in landscape mode — YouTube has a program that allows Premium subscribers to access brand new features that aren't quite fully baked. Today, YouTube dropped a new one called “pinch to zoom” …
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MacRumors, The Shortcut, Silicon Republic, MSPoweruser, Livemint, and The Verge
Tweets: @khaleejtimes and @nerdy_addict
| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
Block reports Q2 revenue down 6.6% YoY to $4.4B, $2.62B net revenue excluding bitcoin, and Cash App bitcoin revenue down 34% YoY to $1.79B — Despite beating projections, the payments company said its overall revenue fell because of a decrease in bitcoin revenue.
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Decrypt, Reuters, CryptoPotato, Bloomberg, TheBitTimes.Com's Newsletter, The Economic Times, PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, Investor's Business Daily, Block, Protocol, The Block, MarketWatch, and Reuters
| Michelle Price / Reuters: |
Visa and Mastercard end ties with the ad arm of Pornhub owner MindGeek, after a court ruled Visa must face a lawsuit alleging it is liable for CSAM distribution — Visa (V.N) and Mastercard (MA.N) on Thursday said they had suspended ties with the advertisement arm of MindGeek … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft tests a Game Pass widget on Windows 11, showing games that have been recently added, are leaving soon, come from certain categories, and more — Microsoft's first new Windows 11 widget — Microsoft's first new Windows 11 widget should make it even easier to find out which games are coming to PC Game Pass.
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Windows Blog, Tech Advisor, ExtremeTech, Club386, TechSpot, and IGN
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
A staff member from Senator Cynthia Lummis' office says the SEC is investigating Binance and every US crypto exchange, including Coinbase — Widely circulated reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating $20 billion crypto exchange Coinbase are just the tip of the iceberg …
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Ethereum World News, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia, CoinGape, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @dima_hodl and @forkast_news
| Nupur Anand / Reuters: |
India's Enforcement Directorate freezes assets worth ~$8.16M of Binance-owned crypto exchange WazirX, citing suspected foreign exchange rule violations — India's financial crime-fighting agency said on Friday that it has frozen the assets of WazirX, owned by the world's largest digital …
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The Economic Times, The Block, CoinGape, and Web3 is going just great
| Michael Bodley / Blockworks: |
Sources: EU-based hedge fund Brevan Howard has raised $1B+ from institutional investors for its crypto unit BH Digital, in the largest crypto hedge fund launch — - The inaugural fund's performance has held up quite well, on a relative basis to the market, sources said
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Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, AltFi, and The Block
Tweets: @michael_bodley, @thinkingcrypto1, and @silvermanjacob
| Sensor Tower: |
US mobile gaming revenue fell 9.6% YoY to $11.4B in H1 2022 and downloads declined 2.5% YoY to 2.4B; only the arcade game genre saw notable revenue growth — Arcade and Tabletop were the only categories to see revenue increase during the first half of the year, Sensor Tower data shows.
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9to5Mac, Eurogamer.net, Destructoid, and Pocket Gamer.biz
| Bloomberg: |
As SoftBank Vision Fund managing partners Yanni Pipilis and Munish Varma leave, the fund has lost 10+ top execs since 2020, putting pressure on Masayoshi Son — Masayoshi Son is losing a growing number of top executives at SoftBank Group Corp., putting more responsibility on the founder's shoulders …
Tweets: @caixin, @pelstrom, and @athomson6
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