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Sources: Coinbase is testing an app from Ray Dalio's company Principles that lets staff rate each other on how well they exemplify Coinbase's 10 cultural tenets — Coinbase, a cryptocurrency trading firm that garnered attention for banning salary negotiations and political speech among employees …
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A look at efforts by 50+ countries to control the data produced by their citizens, governments, and businesses, driven by privacy concerns, economics, and more — Nations are accelerating efforts to control data produced within their perimeters, disrupting the flow of what has become a kind of digital currency.
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Fortune. Tweets: @wbm312, @nytimes, @imeluny, @satariano, @vickerysec, @davidheniguk, @pt, @dmccabe, @itifdc, @ulyssespascal, @profcarroll, and @davidheniguk
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As GDPR turns four, despite some positives, regulators struggle to keep up with complaints, the ad industry remains littered with potential abuses, and more — The world-leading data law changed how companies work. But four years on, there's a lag on cleaning up Big Tech.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK's data protection watchdog fines Clearview AI £7.5M+ for violating privacy laws and orders the company to delete UK citizen information from its systems — The UK's data protection watchdog has confirmed a penalty for the controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI …
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Snap CEO warns employees the company will miss its Q2 revenue and earnings targets as its growth weakens, and plans to slow hiring; stock drops 29%+ after hours — - Snap will miss its own targets for revenue and adjusted earnings in the current quarter, CEO Evan Speigel warned on Monday in a note to employees.
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The QA team at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software votes 19-3 to unionize, as US labor board prosecutors determined the company “illegally threatened staff” — A huge event in the crunch-prone video game industry, which has long resisted organized labor. — Patrick Klepek
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Klarna tells employees it plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, after reports of raising money at a reduced $30B valuation; LinkedIn shows it has 6,500+ staff — Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Klarna was seeking a new round of investment that could see its valuation brought down by a third, from $46bn to $30bn.
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| Riley de León / CNBC: |
eBay partners with NFT startup OneOf to launch 13 digital collectibles featuring Wayne Gretzky, and plans more sports NFTs throughout 2022, starting at $10 each — - eBay is getting into NFTs — and hockey legend Wayne Gretzky is featured in the first collection from the e-commerce company.
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The 11th Circuit federal court upholds blocking Florida's social media “censorship” law to protect First Amendment rights, as SCOTUS weighs Texas' similar law — As the Supreme Court weighs whether to block Texas' social media “censorship” law, a court of appeals has decided …
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are positioned to emerge stronger from this downturn; Refinitiv: from 2008 to 2010, the companies acquired 100+ firms — Flush with cash, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are positioned to emerge from a downturn stronger and more powerful.
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Meta plans to give outside researchers more info on political ad targeting on Facebook and Instagram and to update Ad Library with more info starting in July — Academics and journalists will be able to see more data about the way political ads are used to target users across Facebook and Instagram.
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Protocol, Meta, The Hill, Engadget, CNN, Social Media Today, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, and Protocol
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| Financial Times: |
On April 6, weeks before UST collapsed, Binance promoted the stablecoin on Telegram as a “High Yield, Safe & Happy Earn” investment with an annual 19.63% yield — World's biggest crypto exchange marketed stablecoin lending scheme offering nearly 20% yield
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Tweets: @frank_giustra, @katie_martin_fx, and @muradahmed
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Sources: Broadcom is in talks to pay ~$140 per share, or about $60B, for VMware, and the companies are aiming to announce the cash-and-stock deal on Thursday — The two companies are aiming to announce the cash-and-stock deal Thursday — Broadcom Inc. AVGO -3.10%▼ … | Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
Sources: Airbnb plans to remove all mainland China listings for homes and experiences by this summer, but will keep a Beijing office focusing on outbound travel — - All mainland Chinese listings — homes and experiences — will be taken down by this summer, but Airbnb will continue to maintain …
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Zoom reports Q1 revenue of $1.07B, up 12% YoY, vs. $1.07B est., ~199K Enterprise customers, up 24% YoY, and raises forecasted Q2 and full fiscal year earnings — - Zoom narrowly beat on the top line but sailed past estimates for earnings while also giving a better-than-expected outlook for the second quarter.| Wall Street Journal: |
Chat logs: Twitter employees are bewildered about what their jobs are and will be after Elon Musk takes over; VP Jay Sullivan expects a “chaos tax” to continue — Deal has left employees bewildered about what their jobs are and will be — In one 24-hour period this month …
Tweets: @rupasubramanya, @saraheneedleman, and @saraheneedleman
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok plans to roll out Live subscriptions, to let creators generate recurring revenue via payments from their top fans, in beta on May 26 with select creators — TikTok is ramping up its competition with Twitch, YouTube, and others with this week's launch of TikTok LIVE subscriptions …
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The Verge and Social Media Today
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Sources: Amazon, which has too much warehouse capacity now that pandemic-era shopping has faded, is looking to sublet at least 10M square feet across the US — Amazon.com Inc., stuck with too much warehouse capacity now that the surge in pandemic-era shopping has faded …
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PCMag. Tweets: @stanphylcap, @dofornop, @jimpethokoukis, @yevp, @supheci_kimse, @shiraovide, @aoverk, @capitalobserver, @gerritd, @mattmday, @rebovichinst, @h_thoreson, and @firstadopter
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