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Sources: Elon Musk asked investment firms and wealthy individuals for more Twitter financing and investors like Jack Dorsey to roll their stakes into the deal — Elon Musk is in talks with large investment firms and high net-worth individuals about taking on more financing for his $44 billion acquisition …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
In a filing, Twitter says Elon Musk's bid could make it difficult to attract and retain key employees, decrease productivity, and halt changes to its business — Twitter Inc.'s $44 billion deal to be acquired by Elon Musk means it risks losing advertisers and employees, who may be concerned about the company's uncertain future.
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Facebook plans to stop letting users add podcasts to the service this week, start removing them on June 3, and discontinue Soundbites and its central audio hub — Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and plans to remove them altogether from the social-media service starting June 3.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The SEC plans to add 20 investigators and litigators to its Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, created in 2017 to monitor crypto fraud, taking it to 50 personnel — Agency to add 20 staffers to help tighten scrutiny of unregulated $1.7 trillion cryptocurrency market
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: PayPal and others made informal complaints about Apple's NFC restrictions to the European Commission, spurring the EU's formal antitrust complaint — PayPal Holdings Inc. helped spur a formal antitrust complaint against Apple Inc. and its iPhone payments system by raising concerns …
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| Jules Wang / Android Police: |
Telegram's latest iOS beta includes exclusive reaction emoji and stickers for Telegram Premium subscribers, a sign of the company's plans to monetize messaging — It looks like the app is getting ready to make money off of you — For as robust of a messaging app as it is, Telegram does need to make money.
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| The Information: |
Roadmap: Meta plans four VR headsets by 2024; source says high-end MR headset Cambria, once set for 2021, could debut in September before its successor in 2024 — Meta Platforms is planning to release four virtual reality headsets between now and 2024, according to an internal road map viewed by The Information.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
In a lawsuit, Apple alleges SoC startup Rivos stole trade secrets after poaching 40+ engineers and that at least two took gigabytes of confidential information — (Reuters) - Technology startup Rivos Inc allegedly stole Apple Inc's computer-chip trade secrets after poaching its engineers …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK has shelved plans to empower the CMA's digital markets unit, announced in 2020, hampering its ability to set rules and impose fines — Government not expected to include legislation to beef up CMA's digital markets unit in Queen's Speech — The UK is poised to shelve plans …
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Tweets: @georgewparker, @webdevlaw, @riptari, @georgeperetzqc, @caffar3cristina, @leoringer, and @rasmus_kleis
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Google offers to cover $100K+ worth of its Coursera online courses in data analytics, design, and other tech skills for up to 500 employees at any US business — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google will provide any U.S. business over $100,000 worth of online courses in data analytics …
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| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Amazon plans to support the popular EPUB ebook format via the Send to Kindle feature in late 2022, and drop support for the MOBI and AZW formats — The Send to Kindle system will automatically convert EPUB files to the Kindle's proprietary ebook format. — Alerts
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Tweets: @epro, @edent, @pierce, and @gillyberlin
| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
Addiction scholars say cryptocurrency has characteristics that make it more addictive than sports betting, gambling, and traditional financial investing — Crypto was going to make them rich. Instead, therapists say, more people became depressed and addicted.
Tweets: @lucasmtny, @pranshuverma_, and @coin_trades
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