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Sources detail Netflix's deepening gaming push, as it expands to games for TVs and PCs, deals for 3rd-party games like GTA, and more mobile games for its shows — Streamer to put greater emphasis on developing games based on its popular programming, including ‘Squid Game,’ ‘Wednesday,’ ‘Black Mirror’| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
LinkedIn plans to lay off nearly 700 staffers, mostly from its engineering teams, after cutting 716 jobs in May; source: LinkedIn is ramping up hiring in India — - LinkedIn is cutting almost 700 employees as revenue growth has slowed over the past two years.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Mojang announces 300M+ copies of Minecraft sold in ~15 years; Rockstar's GTA V is the second best-selling game ever after reportedly selling ~185M in ~10 years — Today, it adds more down to that particular feather in its cap with the announcement that it has sold a staggering 300 million copies.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Stack Overflow lays off 100+ people, or 28% of its workforce, to “significantly” reduce its “go-to-market organization”, after doubling its size to 500+ in 2022 — Coding help forum Stack Overflow is laying off 28 percent of its staff as it struggles toward profitability.| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Goldman wants to exit consumer lending and offload its Apple partnership, possibly to Amex, which has balked at Apple Card's loss rate and other issues — The bank, which reports third-quarter earnings Tuesday, is fighting profit declines and flagging stock
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Intel plans to launch its 14th Gen desktop CPUs on October 17, offering up to 6GHz for its flagship $589 Core i9-14900K and increased core count on the $409 i7 — Intel is launching its 14th Gen desktop processors this week, promising boost frequencies of 6GHz out of the box for its flagship Core i9-14900K.
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Binance halts user signups in the UK, after the FCA restricted a local partner's ability to approve communications for crypto companies with customers — - UK's financial promotions regime was widened to include crypto — Exchange plans to hire a new approver for its communications
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| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: the US plans new China chip rules to block some AI chips that fall just under the current technical parameters, expand company reporting, and more — The U.S. will take steps to prevent American chipmakers from selling semiconductors to China that circumvent government restrictions …
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| Victoria Kennedy / Eurogamer.net: |
Bethesda Head of Publishing Pete Hines plans to leave after 24 years, just weeks after the release of Starfield, to begin an “exciting new chapter” — To begin “exciting new chapter”. — Bethesda exec Pete Hines has announced his retirement after 24 years at the company, just weeks after Starfield's launch.
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Following reports from Patreon users, analysis shows X slowing down traffic on links to Patreon, WhatsApp, and, at times Meta's Messenger, by ~2.5 seconds — Markup readers helped uncover the link delays, which also affect WhatsApp and Messenger. — Twitter is now slowing down traffic … | Bloomberg: |
Analysts: iPhone 15 sales in China are down compared to the iPhone 14; Counterpoint estimates a 4.5% drop after 17 days and Jefferies says Huawei outsold Apple — - IPhone 15 selling worse in China than its predecessor in 2022 — Sales of Apple's flagship device are down 4.5% in comparison| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Some influencers and CEOs are taking their brands to LinkedIn, enticed by less competition among creators, a committed user base, and a safer feel than X — Once purely a jobs board, users say the platform is now more valuable than rivals — Marketer Zain Kahn says he earns more than $1mn …
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