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September 5, 2023, 11:35 AM

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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Sources: Apple and Microsoft have argued that iMessage and Bing are insufficiently popular to be designated “gatekeepers” set to be regulated under the EU's DMA  —  Battle comes ahead of publication of first list of services to be regulated under Digital Markets Act
Manya Saini / Reuters:
Filing: SoftBank prices Arm's shares at $47 and $51, aiming to raise up to $4.87B by selling 95.5M shares, for a $52B+ valuation and the biggest US IPO of 2023  —  SoftBank Group's (9984.T) Arm is aiming to raise up to $4.87 billion in the chip designer's U.S. initial public offering, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday.
Wall Street Journal:
How Spotify's $1B+ bet on building a podcast empire has not paid off: most shows are not profitable, debates over exclusivity, cutting original shows, and more  —  The prospect of podcast riches led to aggressive investments in celebrity deals and original programming for what appeared a sky's-the-limit media frontier
Vishal Chawla / The Block:
Visa expands its USDC stablecoin settlements to Solana, partnering with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilots, and has already moved millions of USDC via VisaNet  —  - Visa expanded its USDC stablecoin settlement capabilities to Solana, forming partnerships with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilot programs.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk threatens to file a defamation suit against the ADL for “falsely accusing” X and him of being antisemitic, and blames the ADL for X's US ad sales drop  —  In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League.
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: MLS Season Pass had 110K US signups on July 21, the day of Messi's first MLS match, up from 6,143 on July 20; July was TV+'s best signup month in 2023  —  Soccer superstar attracts over 110,000 sign-ups to MLS Season Pass on day of first game  —  Soccer superstar Lionel Messi helped drive a surge in U.S. subscriptions to
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Sources detail a tumultuous 12 months for Sequoia: spinning off its highly profitable Chinese arm, its FTX and Twitter bets souring, and Michael Moritz leaving  —  Silicon Valley's premier venture firm undergoes ‘profound change’ after China splits and bets on FTX and Twitter sour
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Meta plans to eliminate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won't sign new deals for news content in those countries  —  The company will “deprecate” the news tab — a Facebook feature to prominently display news material — for users in the UK, Germany and France.
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Korean media report: Meta partnered with LG to launch a new Quest Pro in 2025 to compete with Apple's Vision Pro; Meta also plans a sub-$200 headset in 2024  —  Meta is reportedly partnering with LG for future Quest Pro headsets.  —  In November last year South Korean news outlet SBS Biz reported Meta …

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