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Microsoft announces plans to acquire Activision Blizzard — With three billion people actively playing games today and fueled by a new generation steeped in the joys of interactive entertainment, gaming is now the largest and fastest-growing form of entertainment.
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Tweets: @dinabass, @xbox, @modestproposal1, @xbox, @jasonschreier, @martinsfp, @pkafka, @bdsams, and @shakeelhashim
| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com halted withdrawals and requires users to re-sign-in and reset 2FA; research shows Crypto.com lost 4,600+ ETH, worth $15M+, during a suspected hack — The crypto exchange has reportedly lost at least $15 million in Ethereum, and security experts believe the true losses could be much higher.
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Bloomberg, Blockworks, Gizmodo, The Block, Candid.Technology, CryptoSlate, BeInCrypto, and Blockchain News
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| Ashley Rodriguez / Insider: |
Social Capital founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says the “ugly truth” is “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghurs in China, himself included — - Chamath Palihapitiya said “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghur Muslims in China.
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung unveils its 4nm Exynos 2200 SoC with an Xclipse GPU using AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, offering hardware-accelerated ray tracing and variable rate shading — The processor packs Samsung's own Xclipse GPU based on AMD RDNA 2 architecture that the South Korean company says will offer …
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| Lucy Harley-Mckeown / The Block: |
The UK government will increase scrutiny of crypto ads, bringing the marketing in line with other financial promotions, citing risk to buyers — Quick Take — HM Treasury said it would ramp up scrutiny of crypto advertising in the UK. — The move will bring crypto marketing within …
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| Jeffrey Knockel / The Citizen Lab: |
China's MY2022 Olympics app, mandatory for attendees to report travel and health data, has serious encryption flaws and contains censorship keyword lists — Read a translation of the report in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese — Key Findings — MY2022, an app mandated …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Analysis: Meta has filed dozens of patents to monetize its metaverse, including a virtual store with sponsored items, eye and face tracking in headsets, more — Meta hopes to use tiny human expressions to create virtual world of personalised ads — Pupil movements, body poses and nose scrunching …
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Tweets: @atbwebb, @mattnavarra, @muradahmed, @muradahmed, and @juliapowles
| New York Times: |
Game publishers' plans to add NFTs to games have sparked a fierce backlash from gamers, who have long resented the growing number of micro transactions in games — Game publishers are offering NFTs, but skeptical gamers smell a moneymaking scheme and are fighting back.| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Binance conducted its first Binance Coin (BNB) auto-burn last quarter, removing over 1.6M BNB tokens worth $750M from circulation — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance implemented its first-ever binance token (BNB) auto-burn program last quarter, removing over 1.6 million BNB tokens worth $750 million from circulation.
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Tweets: @cz_binance and @icodrops
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Istanbul-based mobile game developer Dream Games, which makes Royal Match, raises $255M led by Index Ventures at a $2.75B valuation, up from $1B in June 2021 — - Istanbul-based mobile game developer Dream Games has raised $255 million in a new round of funding, the company told CNBC.| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
The Tech Oversight Project, mainly funded by Pierre Omidyar and Chris Hughes' organizations, launches Tuesday to push for Big Tech antitrust regulation — Organizations with ties to eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes are the primary funders of the Tech Oversight Project
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Washington Post. Tweets: @cat_zakrzewski, @adamkovac, @tech_oversight, @noupside, @adamkovac, @cat_zakrzewski, @sachalouise, @berinszoka, @neilturkewitz, @markwarner, @brandonsilverm, @brandonsilverm, @tompainetoday, @amyklobuchar, @jason_kint, @omidyarnetwork, @tompainetoday, @wexler, and @tompainetoday
| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
Just Eat outsources 6,000 of its riders and drivers working across six UK cities to Dutch staffing agency Randstad, to comply with stricter UK employment rules — A new subcontractor industry in Europe is benefiting from platforms' efforts to clean up their image and comply with stricter employment rules.
Tweets: @wired and @tashabernal
| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Animoca Brands, an NFT and metaverse service, raises $359M led by Liberty City at a $5B valuation, up from $2.2B in October 2021 — Soros Fund Management and the Winklevoss twins' venture capital firm are among investors in a funding round that's more than doubled the valuation of Animoca Brands Corp. …
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CoinDesk, South China Morning Post, VentureBeat, Animoca Brands, Forbes, Nikkei Asia, Cointelegraph, and GamesTX
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
South Korean startup flex, which makes tools for automating HR processes and workflows, raises a $32M Series B led by Greenoaks at a $287M valuation — South Korea-based human resources management platform flex announced today it has closed a $32 million Series B round at a valuation of $298 million.
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| Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Pinwheel, which offers APIs to fintechs for payroll, income, and other data, raises a $50M Series B at a $500M valuation, following a $20M Series A in June 2021 — Six months after its $20 million Series A, payroll connectivity platform Pinwheel just announced that it has nabbed another $50 million …
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
The EU levied €1.1B in GDPR fines during 2021, up from €158.5M in 2020, led by the €746M fine on Amazon and €225M fine on WhatsApp — European Union data protection fines targeting Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.'s WhatsApp helped push penalties to record levels last year …
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Tweets: @ryan_browne_ and @ryan_browne_
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