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| Changpeng Zhao / @cz_binance: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the company signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire FTX.com and help cover its liquidity crunch, pending due diligence — This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire FTX.com and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days.
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| Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
In a message to staff, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says withdrawals on FTX.com are “effectively paused” after FTX saw ~$6B of net withdrawals in 72 hours — Crypto exchange FTX saw around $6 billion of withdrawals in the 72 hours before Tuesday morning, according to a message …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
In the wake of FTX's dramatic fall, Binance, Gate.io, KuCoin, Poloniex, Bitget, Huobi, and OKX pledge to release their Merkle tree reserve certificates — Over seven crypto exchanges will publish proof of their reserve holdings in the next month. — Crypto exchanges are now scrambling …
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| Tom Maloney / Bloomberg: |
Sam Bankman-Fried's estimated $15.6B fortune has been eviscerated in days by the demise of FTX and Alameda, dropping to ~$1B, the largest one-day collapse ever — Just weeks ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was considered crypto's version of John Pierpont Morgan, willing to throw around his massive fortune to save the industry.
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| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
How Binance exacerbated a bank run on FTX before offering to acquire the company, and why the potential deal represents a meteoric fall for Sam Bankman-Fried — Binance, after exacerbating a bank run on rival crypto exchange FTX, offered to buy out the jewel in SBF's crown. — By Daniel KuhnLayer 2
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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| Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: |
| Meta: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to lay off 13% of its staff, or 11,000+ employees, and will cut discretionary spending and extend its hiring freeze through Q1 — Mark Zuckerberg just shared the following with Meta employees: — Today I'm sharing some of the most difficult changes we've made in Meta's history.
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Solana crashes 30%+ to ~$18; bitcoin falls 10%+ to <$18,000 and briefly hit $17,300 on November 8, its lowest since November 2020; ether drops 15% to ~$1,250 — FTX token plunges as Binance steps in to buy the crypto exchange's non-U.S. unit: CNBC Crypto World
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| Divya Balji / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase's stock closed down 10.78% and Robinhood Markets closed down 19.04% as the Binance-FTX deal spotlights the challenges facing the crypto industry — Robinhood Markets Inc. tumbled by the most in more than a year after Binance Holdings Ltd. agreed to acquire Sam Bankman-Fried's … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter plans to label select accounts “Official” when the new Blue launches; not all previously verified accounts will get the label, which won't be for sale — Twitter is rolling out another type of check mark to help distinguish accounts that users actually need to know are real.
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Research suggests Apple collects data about iPhone usage even when the iPhone Analytics setting to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether” is off — For all of Apple's talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: TSMC plans to announce a second chipmaking factory north of Phoenix, Arizona, in the coming months, investing roughly $12B and aiming to make 3nm chips — New facility would produce cutting edge 3-nanometer semiconductors — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Disney hit 235.7M global streaming subscribers in Q4, above Netflix's 223.1M in Q3; Disney+ had 164.2M subscribers, Hulu had 47.2M, and ESPN+ had 24.3M — Disney reported results for the final quarter of its 2022 fiscal year today, revealing a total of 164.2 million Disney+ global subscribers … | Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok cut its 2022 revenue target from $12B-$14.5B to ~$10B in September, as some staff complain of overspending on salaries, social events, and more — Fast-growing social platform cuts ambitious goals by 20% as some staff complain of lavish spending
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Tweets: @cristinacriddle, @trengriffin, and @marktluszcz
| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk sold 19.5M Tesla shares, worth almost $4B, between November 4-8; Musk retains a roughly 14% stake in Tesla — The sale of 19.5 million shares this month in the electric-vehicle maker follows sales in April and August
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Tweets: @carlquintanilla, @carlquintanilla, and @emilygorcenski
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with CEO Dylan Field on scaling Figma, selling the company to Adobe, retaining autonomy, WebGL, making VR Figma for the metaverse, AGI, and more — We also talk about AI and VR — but we know why you're here. … Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma …
Tweets: @entirelyamelia, @gte, and @johnolilly
| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Nintendo announces Nintendo Systems, a joint venture with DeNA, which co-developed Nintendo games for mobile like Super Mario Run, set to open in April 2023 — New subsidiary will open in April 2023, focusing on research and development to improve Nintendo's digital business — At a glanceSponsor Posts
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