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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees — After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter's 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Elon Musk holds Blue Verified's relaunch until “there is high confidence of stopping impersonations” and floats using different colors for orgs and individuals — Elon Musk told Twitter employees on Monday that the company won't relaunch its paid verification subscription …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources detail Elon Musk's rapid dismantling of Twitter's safety work, narrowing its scope to whatever he deems violent, threatening “sticks and stones” talk — Amid the wider turmoil since his takeover last month, Musk has moved rapidly to undermine Twitter's deliberative content-moderation system.
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| New York Times: |
After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk repeats tactics from SpaceX and Tesla, including firing workers, talking of bankruptcy, and introducing a “hardcore” style — Firing people. Talking of bankruptcy. Telling workers to be “hard core.” Mr. Musk has repeatedly used those tactics at many of his companies.
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| Koh Gui Qing / Reuters: |
Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF's parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel” — Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought …
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| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
Filings: FTX, Alameda, and other affiliates have $1.2B in cash reserves, below the $3.1B owed to the top 50 creditors; Alameda's reserves are largest at ~$393M — The bankrupt crypto exchange FTX owes around $3.1 billion to its top 50 creditors. — The various divisions …
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| Sunil Jagtiani / Bloomberg: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao met with investors in Abu Dhabi last week to raise money for a crypto industry recovery fund — Binance Chief Executive Officer Changpeng “CZ” Zhao and several deputies met with investors in Abu Dhabi last week in an effort to raise cash … | Samuel Stolton / Politico: |
The UK's CMA launches an investigation into Apple's and Google's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming, following a survey that found a “stranglehold” — Apple and Google could be forced to loosen their grip on mobile systems after the United Kingdom's competition watchdog launched …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Genesis struggles to raise $1B+ funding for its lending unit and warns potential investors that it may need to file for bankruptcy if its efforts fail — Digital-asset brokerage Genesis is struggling to raise fresh cash for its lending unit, and it's warning potential investors …
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| Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr plans to support ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others — Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that's today powering social networking software …
Tweets: @photomatt, @migueldeicaza, @jbenton, @harrymccracken, @donmacaskill, @stefangreybeard, @elamhut, @joelghill, and @kelseyhightower
| David Enrich / New York Times: |
An investigation reveals how online US sports betting grew so big, so fast and what the consequences are likely to be for public health, taxpayers, and others — The New York Times examined thousands of pages of documents and interviewed lobbyists, executives, lawmakers …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Report: Amazon's hardware group is on track to lose $10B in 2022, as many Echo devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize Alexa have failed — Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser. — Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs … | Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Sources: the People's Bank of China plans to fine Jack Ma's Ant Group more than $1B as soon as Q2 2023, potentially ending the company's two-year overhaul — Chinese authorities are poised to impose a fine of more than $1 billion on Jack Ma's Ant Group, said six sources with direct knowledge of the matter …
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
A Netherlands court finds Tornado Cash developer Alexey Perstev is a flight risk and must remain in jail until February 20, 2023; Perstev was jailed in August — Pertsev has been in Dutch prison since August, accused of facilitating money laundering for his work on the U.S. Treasury-sanctioned app.
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| Esha Dey / Bloomberg: |
Online used car marketplace Carvana's stock hits an all-time low, closing down 13% to $7.05 on Monday; the company's stock is down 97% in 2022 — Online car dealer Carvana Co.'s shares tumbled to an all-time low as investors grow more concerned about the continuing decline in used-vehicle prices.
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