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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
FTX's FTT drops 30%+ to around $15 as investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda; Nansen shows FTX outflows reached $450M+ — FTT has declined nearly 20% over the course of an hour, with Solana's SOL down 17% and Serum's SRM off 10%.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
On-chain data from Ethereum, Tron, and Solana: FTX appears to have stopped processing withdrawal requests, starting at 6:37am ET for ether — - Crypto exchange FTX seems to have stopped processing withdrawal requests, according to on-chain data. — The last outgoing transaction …
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| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says “FTX is fine” as Binance begins selling FTX's FTT token; an Alameda balance sheet leaked on November 2 showed $8B in liabilities — - FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried insisted his crypto exchange is “fine” after rival Binance announced it would start selling its holdings of FTX's FTT token.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Elon Musk pitched charging most or all Twitter users for a subscription; internal estimates show Blue could lose the company ~$6/user/month in the US — Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Early Twitter investor Chris Sacca says Elon Musk is “alone right now and winging this” and needs people around him willing to “speak some truth to power” — - Venture capitalist Chris Sacca was one of Twitter's first investors and an early user.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Twitter tells advertisers the service added 15M+ mDAUs since the end of Q2, “crossing the quarter billion mark”; Musk also tweeted user numbers are up — Twitter's daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform …
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: Apple's corporate diplomacy in Beijing helped it evade crackdowns and kept its profits above China's tech giants but exposes it to supply chain shocks — The most profitable tech company operating in China is not a homegrown internet giant such as Alibaba or Tencent, but California-based Apple.
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| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
As Twitter's problems mount, Elon Musk is on pace to tweet over 750 times in November, or more than 25 times a day, up from around 13 per day in April — The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify his actions. — Ryan Mac, who is based in Los Angeles …
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Tweets: @meslackman, @tuviae, @aaschapiro, @trippmickle, @tigerbeat, @laurenshirsch, and @rmac18
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo reports Q2 operating profit of ~$809M, up from ~$685M YoY, and cuts its fiscal year Switch sales forecast by 10% to 19M; a weakened yen boosts results — Nintendo Co. cut its fiscal-year forecast for Switch console sales by 10% to 19 million after reporting earnings in line with expectations.| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Nvidia offers Chinese customers the A800 GPU, which the company says meets US export control rules, as an alternative to the A100 that the US banned for export — U.S. chip maker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Monday it is offering a new advanced chip in China that meets recent export control rules aimed … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Inside Meta's Oversight Board after two years: $150M funding through 2025, ~2M appeals, 28 rulings, and 119 recommendations, as it begins to win over critics — Mark Zuckerberg set up the panel to investigate how his company handles controversial posts. Now its members want to transform how social platforms work.
Tweets: @klonick, @codycombsnews, @stevenlevy, and @taniaglezaz
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's search for a new product design lead has been hindered by high turnover, leaving few candidates for a department still in Jony Ive's shadow — Turnover at Apple Inc. has hindered efforts to replace the head of product design, leaving a gaping hole at the helm … | Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
An investigation shows TrustCor Systems, used by Chrome, Safari, and Firefox as a root certificate authority, has connections to US intel and law enforcement — TrustCor Systems vouches for the legitimacy of websites. But its physical address is a UPS Store in Toronto.
Tweets: @v0max, @v0max, @pauldokas, and @v0max
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google and Renault expand their four-year partnership to develop a “software-defined vehicle” based on Google's Android Automotive OS — This “software-defined vehicle” will be built on Google's Android Automotive operating system and send data to the company's cloud servers for processing, the companies announced.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reports Q2 bookings up 53% YoY to $1.5B, below $1.55B estimates, and revises FY 2023 bookings down to $5.5B; stock drops 17%+ — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. reduced its annual forecast for net bookings in the wake of an industrywide spending slowdown, particularly in mobile gaming.| Financial Times: |
Sources: responding to a slowing economy and weakening ad market, ByteDance overhauls TikTok's US operations, including demoting general manager Sandie Hawkins — Chinese-owned social platform makes sweeping leadership changes in its largest market — TikTok's US operations are undergoing … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Activision Blizzard reports Q3 net bookings down 3% YoY to $1.83B vs. $1.7B est., and MAUs down 6% YoY to 368M; Modern Warfare II made $1B+ in its first 10 days — Activision Blizzard reported that its bookings for the third quarter ended September 30 fell 3% to $1.83 billion compared to a year ago.
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