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Apple will raise the hourly pay for US workers to $22, up 45% from 2018, amid inflation and a unionization push; US starting salaries are also expected to rise — The iPhone maker faces store unionization attempts, higher inflation — Apple Inc. AAPL .11%▲ is boosting pay …
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Leaked video: Apple SVP of Retail + People Deirdre O'Brien tells employees that joining a union would make it harder for Apple to improve working conditions — In an internal video circulated among Apple's 58,000 retail employees, Apple's vice-president of retail suggested that a union …
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Twitter agrees to pay $150M to the FTC, settling allegations that it misrepresented the “security and privacy” of user data between May 2013 and September 2019 — Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) has settled with U.S. authorities over allegations it misrepresented the “security and privacy” …
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| CNBC: |
Filing: Elon Musk plans to provide an additional $6.25B in equity financing for his Twitter buyout, boosting his commitment to $33.5B; Twitter's stock rises 5%+ — A new filing reveals that Elon Musk plans to front $33.5 billion in his bid to take over Twitter.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter's board of directors, effective today; Dorsey has discussed rolling over his 2.4% Twitter stake into Elon Musk's takeover deal — Jack Dorsey is leaving the board of Twitter, effective today. The move had been telegraphed last fall, when he stepped down as the social media company's CEO.
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| Sujith Somraaj / Decrypt: |
Binance, FTX, Crypto.com, Bitfinex, and other exchanges have pledged support for Do Kwon's Terra 2.0, set to launch on Friday by airdropping tokens — Cryptocurrency exchanges have pledged support to Terra's upcoming relaunch, following the passing of a proposal to launch a new blockchain.
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Broadcom announces plans to acquire VMware for around $61B in cash and stock, paying $142.50 per share, and will assume VMware's $8B in net debt — May 26 (Reuters) - Broadcom Inc (AVGO.O) said on Thursday it will buy cloud service provider VMware Inc (VMW.N) in a $61 billion cash-and-stock deal …
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| TechCrunch: |
Sources: one-click checkout service Bolt has laid off 100+ employees across go-to-market, sales, and recruiting roles amid slowing revenue and customer growth — One-click checkout startup Bolt has laid off at least 100 employees and counting across go-to-market, sales and recruiting roles, sources say.
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney on creating the metaverse, growing the Unreal Engine, Apple and Google's app store policies, Meta's metaverse plans, and more — Online game Fortnite is arguably the closest thing to the metaverse that exists today. Some 70mn gamers immerse themselves …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to keep iPhone production at ~220M, about the same as last year, compared to ~240M market forecasts, amid inflation and a tough market — Apple Inc. is planning to keep iPhone production roughly flat in 2022, a conservative stance as the year turns increasingly challenging for the smartphone industry.| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Sony says it plans to ramp up PlayStation 5 production and signals a radical broadening of its game portfolio, including more titles on PC and mobile — Sony Group Corp (6758.T) said it plans to ramp up production of its PlayStation 5 console as supply chain snarls ease and signalled …
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| Ashley Stewart / Insider: |
Interviews with former and current Microsoft employees suggest a widespread pattern of executive misconduct persists, years after Satya Nadella vowed to end it — The Microsoft executive walked into the small, windowless room in Studio C at about 8 o'clock that evening.
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Tweets: @hughlangley, @grahamstarr, @businessinsider, and @ethangach
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Peter Thiel steps down from Meta's board, which he joined in 2005 after investing $500K; Meta announced in February 2022 that Thiel would be leaving — Peter Thiel has officially stepped down from Meta's board, a position he's held since Facebook was in its infancy.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
A 51-page Senate committee report warns that the US government lacks comprehensive data on ransomware attacks and payments and suffers from fragmented reporting — The US government must clean up ransomware reporting and data collection if it wants to devise adequate policy responses.
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Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. More:
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Tweets: @campuscodi, @ericgeller, and @hsgac
| Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal: |
Some hotels are looking to guarantee bookings revenue by partnering with startups like Pinktada that convert stays into NFTs to be bought and sold by guests — NFTs also are being used to raise capital to buy golf courses or land, giving token buyers a stake in the projects
Tweets: @maxwellstrachan, @nameshiv, @evacide, @thekafkadude, @thelincoln, @eden_holdings, @sub8u, @blackamazon, @xenollamas, and @mylesudland
| Chad Bray / South China Morning Post: |
The UK orders a security review of chipmaker Newport Wafer Fab's sale to Nexperia, the Dutch subsidiary of China's Wingtech, after reportedly not intervening — Assessment of US$79 million acquisition of Britain's biggest semiconductor maker comes under new powers conferred by National Security … | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Bloom, which uses AI to offer e-commerce startups revenue-based loans, raises a £300M Series A led by Credo and Fortress, bringing its funding to £307M — While the likes of Pipe are reaching multi-billion valuations, European revenue-based financing is experiencing as much of a boom as it is in the US.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu beats estimates as Q1 revenue rose 1% YoY to ~$4.2B but misses with a ~$131.5M net loss, amid a shift into AI and supplying tech to others — Baidu Inc. posted a surprise revenue rise, after efforts to expand in areas such as cloud computing and autonomous driving offset weak ad sales in China.
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Tech in Asia and Baidu Inc
| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Data.ai and IDC: consumer spending on video games will hit $222B globally in 2022, with mobile gaming accounting for more than 61% of the total — Market data firm sees mobile continuing to drive industry growth even as experiences become more console-like
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Snowflake stock drops 15%+ on weak Q2 growth guidance after reporting Q1 product revenue rose 84% YoY to $394M and a net loss of $166M, down from $203M YoY — Snowflake Inc., a software company that helps businesses organize data in the cloud, dropped in extended trading after giving …
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