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Kim Kardashian settles with the SEC for $1.26M after not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram and won't promote crypto for three years — - Kim Kardashian agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle SEC charges for failing to disclose a payment she received for touting a crypto asset on Instagram.
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
The SCOTUS agrees to hear two Section 230-related cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, both stemming from terrorist content on the services — The US Supreme Court will decide whether social media companies can be sued over targeted content recommendations …
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The Vice Society ransomware gang publishes data allegedly from the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the school system did not pay the ransom — The Vice Society Ransomware gang published data and documents Sunday morning that were stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District during a cyberattack earlier this month.
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony plans to make 2M PlayStation VR2 units by March 2023, an ambitious target, and has not yet faced supply chain constraints — Sony Group Corp. plans to make 2 million units of the PlayStation VR2 headset by March next year, people familiar with the matter said …
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A document shows an Italian administrative court scrapped a €200M fine for Apple and Amazon from 2021 over alleged collusion in selling Apple and Beats products — An Italian administrative court scrapped a fine imposed by the country's antitrust authority on U.S. tech giants Apple …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Filings: TikTok's European business reports $990M revenue in 2021, up from $172M in 2020, and a $896M loss due to increased spending on its 4,396 staff — Social media platform records revenues of more than $990mn after recruiting thousands more staff — TikTok increased its European …
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| Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Checkout.com founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, who owns 60% of the $40B London-based payments company and has begun investing in fintech startups — A college dropout from Switzerland has amassed a $14 billion fortune to become one of the country's richest people by creating a rising star in electronic payments.| The Citizen Lab: |
Research: Pegasus attacks on Mexican activists and reporters from 2019-2021 used 0-click exploits, after Mexico's president called Pegasus a thing of the past — Key Takeaways — Mexican digital rights organization R3D (Red en los Defensa de los Derechos Digitales) …
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| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Singapore-based online shopping rewards app ShopBack raised $80M from Temasek's 65 Equity, bringing its Series F to $160M, a source says at a ~$1B valuation — ShopBack, an online shopping rewards app backed by Singapore's Temasek Holdings Pte, raised $80 million from the state investment …
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The UIUC, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others launch the Speech Accessibility Project to improve voice recognition for people with disabilities — The University of Illinois (UIUC) has partnered with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and nonprofits on the Speech Accessibility Project.
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and Speech Accessiblity Project
| Mureji Fatunde / Bloomberg: |
Tally Technologies, which uses AI to automate credit card payments, raised an $80M Series D led by Sway Ventures at an $855M valuation, up from $280M in 2019 — Tally Technologies Inc., a startup that automates credit card payments, has tripled its valuation to $855 million in a funding round led by Sway Ventures.| Financial Times: |
London-based Improbable, a blockchain game maker that raised $500M from SoftBank in 2017, is close to raising £100M at a £3B+ valuation, up from £2.5B in 2018 — UK company has abandoned struggle to make video games and turned to creating virtual-world technologySponsor Posts
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