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Binance abandons its rescue acquisition offer for FTX after reviewing FTX's finances, saying “the issues are beyond our control or ability to help” — Crypto exchange's decision comes as it conducts due diligence on FTX — Sam Bankman-Fried in Talks to Raise More Funding
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the SEC and the CFTC are investigating whether FTX.com mishandled customer funds and FTX's relationship with other parts of Sam Bankman-Fried's empire — US financial regulators are investigating whether beleaguered crypto-exchange FTX.com properly handled customer funds …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sequoia tells investors the firm marked down its FTX investment of $213.5M across two funds to $0, saying it “ran a rigorous diligence process” before investing — - Its $150 million of exposure to both FTX and FTX.US in its third global growth fund represents less than 3% of that fund's total capital commitment.
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| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Source: Sam Bankman-Fried told investors that FTX needs a cash injection or the company would need to file for bankruptcy due to a shortfall of up to $8B — Sam Bankman-Fried told FTX.com investors on Wednesday that without a cash injection the company would need to file for bankruptcy … | Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
Memo: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says FTX's near collapse “severely” shook confidence in the crypto industry, shares some FTX deal details, and halts FTT sales — Changpeng Zhao tells employees that the bailout of its chief rival is ‘not a win’| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Major coins are plummeting: bitcoin drops 14%+ to below $16,000, a new low since November 2020, ether drops 17%+ to ~$1,100, and Solana crashes 40%+ to ~$13 — FTX token plunges as Binance steps in to buy the crypto exchange's non-U.S. unit: CNBC Crypto World| Tom Maloney / Bloomberg: |
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
After Twitter labels select accounts as “Official”, Elon Musk says he “killed it” and an executive says the label “is still going out” as part of the new Blue — Update: Well, that was fast. The grey checks have begun to disappear following a tweet …
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| Becky Peterson / The Information: |
Report: Twitter filed to register with the US Treasury to process payments; source: Twitter is working on a product that accepts cryptocurrencies including DOGE — Twitter is taking steps to launch a payment processing product that could put it into competition with PayPal.
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Tweets: @mshannahmurphy, @rmac18, @scalzi, @thelincoln, @prothedoge, @r0h1n, @laurengoode, and @goldman
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Fake Twitter accounts of athletes and other celebrities, some now suspended, are spreading fake announcements and chaos as paid Blue checkmarks become available — Elon Musk's mercurial leadership and half-baked product plans are already creating fertile ground for confusion on Twitter.
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| Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: |
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Tweets: @nandoodles, @justinhendrix, @oneunderscore__, @mmasnick, @cobie, and @jmaguirecritic
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple limits iOS' AirDrop in China for receiving files from non-contacts to 10 minutes after its use in protests, and plans to change the global default in 2023 — Apple Inc. has limited the AirDrop wireless file-sharing feature on iPhones in China after the mechanism was used by protesters to spread images to other iPhone owners.
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Tweets: @zeyiyang, @therealjoshye, @unhedgedchatter, @applecensorship, and @applecensorship
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins to roll out iCloud Photos integration in Windows 11 through an update to the built-in Windows Photos app — Microsoft is starting to roll out iCloud Photos integration into Windows 11. A new update to the Photos app in Windows 11 is now available, which will include …
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon becomes the world's first public company to lose $1T in market value, from $1.88T in July 2021 to ~$879B; Microsoft has lost $889B since November 2021 — Amazon.com Inc. is the world's first public company to lose a trillion dollars in market value as a combination of rising inflation …
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| Gian M. Volpicelli / Wired: |
Law enforcement agents specializing in cryptocurrency investigations are leaving government agencies and joining firms like Binance, Coinbase, and Chainalysis — Hunting down crypto criminals is a dying art as law enforcement officers jump in-house. — In the course of a decade …
Tweets: @gadgetlab and @wired
| Meta: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to lay off ~13% of its staff, or 11,000+ employees, and cut discretionary spending and extend its hiring freeze through Q1 2023 — 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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
GitHub is experimenting with “Hey, GitHub!”, a voice-based interaction system for its Copilot software that will allow programmers to code with just their voice — Microsoft-owned GitHub is experimenting with a new voice-based interaction system for its Copilot software.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Miami-based Ping, which helps remote workers and freelancers collect international payments in fiat and crypto, raised a $15M seed from Y Combinator and others — If the global pandemic taught us anything, it's that you could work from anywhere as long as you had a computer and good wireless signal.
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