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SEC filing: in a letter to Twitter, Elon Musk revives his original bid for $54.20 per share, aiming to avoid a courtroom fight; Twitter's stock closes up 22.24% — Elon Musk is proposing to buy Twitter Inc. for the original offer price of $54.20 a share, Bloomberg News reports.Musk …
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| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
Elon Musk says buying Twitter “is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”; Musk previously teased launching X.com as a social media site — Entrepreneur's first big hit was with X.com, an online bank that was acquired by PayPal; he re-acquired the rights to the website …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
A Delaware judge says Twitter can proceed with a limited probe to see if Peiter Zatko contacted Elon Musk's lawyers before Musk backed out of the deal — The Delaware Court of Chancery says Twitter can proceed with a limited probe to figure out whether whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” … | Axios: |
Elon Musk's proposal to proceed with his Twitter bid for $54.20/share hinges on receiving debt financing and the end of all legal actions related to the deal — Elon Musk has offered to proceed with a $44 billion buyout of Twitter, according to a letter his lawyer sent to Twitter's legal team that was submitted to regulators Tuesday.
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| Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Meta plans to shut down its newsletter subscription service Bulletin by early 2023; the Substack competitor launched in January 2021 and now has 120+ writers — The social media company plans to bring more content back to the Facebook platform directly. — Meta will be shutting down Bulletin …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
The European Parliament votes 602 to 13 to enforce USB-C as the charging port for most devices by the end of 2024 and all laptops by spring 2026 sold in the EU — The European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly in favor of enforcing USB-C as a common charging port across a wide range …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
In an email to recruiters, Amazon says it is freezing most corporate hiring in its retail business for the rest of 2022; AWS is not affected by the freeze — It is the latest tech company to pump the brakes on hiring amid growing economic concerns. — Amazon is freezing corporate hiring …
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| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
The White House's new AI Bill of Rights, which would let users opt out of algorithmic decision-making, is nonbinding and so will have little impact on companies — The draft's tenets include allowing citizens to opt out of algorithmic decision-making, which could reshape federal government—but not the private sector.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
The Connectivity Standards Alliance launches the Matter 1.0 smart home standard and its certification program; Matter devices may be sold as soon as this month — The smart home standard is open for certification at last. We could see Matter devices in our homes as soon as this month.
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| Suzanne Smalley / CyberScoop: |
A CISA report finds multiple government hacking groups had “long-term” access to the network of a defense company using open-source Python toolkit Impacket — U.S. cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence officials revealed on Tuesday that sophisticated hackers infiltrated …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta debuts Instagram ads on the Explore page and tests ads in profile feeds, letting creators earn extra income, and a shorter ad format for Facebook Reels — Following another quarter that saw marketers pull back on their ad spending, Meta today announced it's increasing its ad load on Instagram with the launch of two new ad slots.
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon discontinues Glow, its video calling device aimed at kids, amid lackluster sales and a shift in consumer behavior after debuting the $300 product in 2021 — Amazon.com Inc. is discontinuing its pandemic-era kids' video calling device amid lackluster sales and a shift in consumer behavior.| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Arizona's AG: Google will pay $85M to resolve the state's consumer privacy lawsuit that claims it surreptitiously collects users' location data for targeted ads — Alphabet Inc.'s Google will pay $85 million to resolve a consumer privacy suit by Arizona claiming the technology giant …
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| Jason Cipriani / ZDNet: |
Google announces the $180 Nest Doorbell Wired and $200 Nest Wifi Pro with Wi-Fi 6E support, updates the Home app, and confirms the company will support Matter — Google on Tuesday announced several new products, including a new Nest Doorbell that ditches a battery, a Nest Wi-Fi Pro with support …
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| David Voreacos / Bloomberg: |
US officials accuse a man of remotely swiping 713 bitcoins from a wallet seized in a case against his brother, who operated crypto mixer Helix to launder money — Gary Harmon grinned as he lounged in a bathtub full of dollar bills surrounded by scantily clad women.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google launches Medical Imaging Suite, a cloud service for health care professionals that uses AI to scan medical images for faster and more accurate diagnoses — Google Cloud is bringing its expertise in vision-based artificial intelligence to the healthcare industry with the launch of its new Medical Imaging Suite today.| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Micron plans to spend up to $100B over the next 20+ years to build a chipmaking complex in upstate New York, helped by federal and state government incentives — The company is planning a giant complex in Clay, N.Y., a sign that the government's investments in semiconductors are steering firms' decisions.
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Switzerland-based cybersecurity company Infinigate merges with Dubai-based cybersecurity firm Starlink to form a company with a ~$2.2B estimated annual revenue — Cybersecurity company Infinigate Group said on Tuesday it was merging with Dubai-based cybersecurity and cloud firm Starlink …
| Paige Tortorelli / CNBC: |
Celsius co-founder and chief strategy officer S. Daniel Leon resigns a week after CEO Alex Mashinsky; Global Tax Director Lior Koren will assume the CSO role — - S. Daniel Leon, co-founder and strategy chief of bankrupt crypto lending platform Celsius, has stepped down, according to an internal email.| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's iPhone exports from India passed $1B in the past five months and could reach $2.5B by March 2023, up from $1.3B in the year ending March 2022 — Apple Inc.'s iPhone exports from India crossed $1 billion in the five months since April, according to people familiar with the matter … | Maxwell Strachan / VICE: |
Some guests and hosts say Airbnb permanently banned them after background checks by third-party company Inflection revealed minor offenses or old misdemeanors — Airbnb customers say they are being permanently banned after background checks reveal minor offenses like broken tail lights and old misdemeanors.Sponsor Posts
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