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Twitter's board says it intends to “close the transaction” at the agreed price and “enforce the merger agreement” — New York CNN Business — … Who wants to own Twitter? Maybe Elon Musk doesn't. Sure, maybe he is causing chaos to extract a lower price from the Twitter board …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Acer unveils the Swift 3 laptop, starting at $900 with a 14" OLED display, 12th-Gen Intel Core H-series CPUs, and claimed 10-hour battery life, coming in July — A new 14-inch OLED for $899.99 — It wasn't too long ago that the phrase “OLED laptop” implied a luxury product.
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Acer announces the SpatialLabs View and SpatialLabs View Pro, standalone external 4K monitors with its glasses-free stereoscopic 3D tech, available from $1,099 — The SpatialLabs View line is glasses-free and will be available this summer at a hefty price. — Alerts
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China's top economic official meets dozens of tech execs and industry experts, pledging “support” for Chinese tech companies amid a deepening economic slump — Beijing's top economic official holds meetings with executives and industry experts — China's top economic official met dozens … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ian Goodfellow, Apple's former director of machine learning who left due to the company's return to work policy, is joining Alphabet's DeepMind — An Apple Inc. executive who left over the company's stringent return-to-office policy is joining Alphabet Inc.'s DeepMind unit, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Financial Times: |
Filing: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund takes a ~5% stake in Nintendo, worth $2.98B; the PIF disclosed a 5% stake in Japan's Nexon and Capcom in February — Sovereign wealth fund has already bought into Japan's Capcom and Nexon — Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has acquired …
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| New York Times: |
A profile of Do Kwon, the trash-talking founder of Terraform Labs, which raised $200M+ to build LUNA and UST; many investors avoided losses by cashing out early — Do Kwon, a South Korean entrepreneur, hyped the Luna and TerraUSD cryptocurrencies. Their failures have devastated some traders … | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
CoinGecko: after Tether lost its dollar peg, leading to $8.5B+ in redemptions, Circle's USDC stablecoin circulation rose by $3.4B and Binance USD is up $1.2B — Circle's USD Coin is reaping the benefits as circulation of Tether, the world's largest stablecoin and its closest rival, continues to decline in a wave of redemptions.| Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: |
Netflix cuts 150 jobs out of 11K across departments in a new round of layoffs, mostly in the US, as the company reins in costs amid slowing revenue growth — EXCLUSIVE: Layoffs are underway at Netflix today. About 150 positions out of the streamer's workforce of 11,000 are being eliminated amid …
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| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Celebrities have been criticized for hyping crypto without highlighting the risks after this month's sell-off, as Crypto.com and FTX scale back on ad spending — Crypto boosters such as Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow have been criticized for hyping virtual currency without highlighting the risks.
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| Tomio Geron / Protocol: |
Plaid announces two products for Automated Clearing House transfers, including identify verification, putting it in direct competition with Stripe — Plaid is moving into identity verification in a crucial expansion beyond its roots connecting banks and fintechs — a move that could put … | Bloomberg: |
Research: despite China's crypto mining ban, its global bitcoin hashrate share grew to 21.1% from Sept. 2021 to Jan. 2022, suggesting a rise in covert mining — While the US extended its leading position as the dominant location for Bitcoin mining, China has reemerged as the second-largest locale despite … | Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Russian subsidiary plans to file for bankruptcy, saying it is impossible to pay employees and suppliers after authorities seized its bank account — Tech giant had already paused most of its commercial operations in the country — The Russian subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.'s GOOG 1.66%▲ …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Masterschool, a network of virtual coding schools that takes 10% of monthly income to repay tuition, raises a $100M seed led by Group 11 — Masterschool, which describes itself as a “network of tech career-training schools,” today announced that it has raised a $100 million seed funding round …
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