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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 that buying Twitter “is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”; in August 2022, Musk 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 …
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Blizzard President Mike Ybarra says Overwatch 2 is “experiencing a mass DDoS attack” on its servers, preventing hundreds of users from joining the game's launch — Overwatch 2's early access launch has been marred by a few bugs and a massive DDoS attack preventing players from getting into the game.
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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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| 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 kept “long-term” access to a US military contractor's network via the open-source Python toolkit Impacket — U.S. cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence officials revealed on Tuesday that sophisticated hackers infiltrated …
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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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| 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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| 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.
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| David Voreacos / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors accuse a man of remotely swiping 713 bitcoins from a hardware wallet seized in a case against his brother, who ran crypto mixing service Helix — Gary Harmon grinned as he lounged in a bathtub full of dollar bills surrounded by scantily clad women.| 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.| Sabiq Shahidullah / Bloomberg: |
Gopuff taps Grubhub to deliver groceries, alcohol, and household items across the US, starting in NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Austin — Grubhub Inc. and Gopuff are teaming up to provide fast delivery of groceries, alcohol and household items.
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| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
Amazon sues Washington state's Department of Labor & Industries, claiming an order forcing the company to reduce a warehouse's hazards breaks the 14th Amendment — Somebody missed the memo - this internet giant always gets its own way — Amazon has sued Washington state's Department …
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