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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Source: Twitter's board plans to comply with Elon Musk's demands for internal data on bots by offering access to its full “firehose”, after a weeks-long impasse — The billionaire is in a protracted battle with the company over information about spam and fake accounts
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in an internal meeting, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde said a shareholder vote to approve Twitter's sale to Elon Musk will occur in late July or early August — Twitter Inc.'s top lawyer reassured staff Wednesday that the deal to sell the company to billionaire Elon Musk is still progressing …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
After leaving Amazon on July 1, Dave Clark will join supply chain software startup Flexport as co-CEO starting September 1, becoming sole CEO six months later — Former Amazon consumer chief Dave Clark has a new job: co-CEO, and eventually sole CEO, of $8 billion-valued supply chain software startup Flexport.
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SiliconANGLE, Newcomer, Seattle Business Journal, GeekWire, Insider, Bloomberg, and Financial Times
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| Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends: |
Apple says Stage Manager is limited to M1 iPads because the feature relies on iPadOS 16's fast memory swap, which lets demanding apps use storage as virtual RAM — At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2022, Apple announced numerous new features for iPadOS 16.
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Apple, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, and Cult of Mac
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Source: Citadel Securities is building a “cryptocurrency trading ecosystem” in partnership with market maker Virtu, VC firms Sequoia and Paradigm, and others — The effort also includes Citadel Securities' recent venture capital (VC) backers, Sequoia and Paradigm …
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Bloomberg, Reuters, The Block, Protocol, Bitcoin Magazine, Insider, Ethereum World News, CryptoSlate, Blockworks, Finbold, Benzinga, and Tech News
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok Shop in the UK is in turmoil after losing at least half its staff, or 20 people, since its launch in October, many citing a toxic workplace — Chinese-owned social media group launches investigation into ‘toxic’ working practices at London offices| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Internal email: Microsoft splits its HoloLens group as its leader Alex Kipman leaves the company; a recent Insider report described Kipman's “toxic” behavior — Microsoft is splitting its HoloLens mixed reality group and parting ways with Alex Kipman, the leader of the group …
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Insider, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, The Register, ZDNet, Windows Central, IGN, New York Post, Protocol, UploadVR, OnMSFT.com, CNBC, TheGamer, TechSpot, OnMSFT.com, WinBuzzer, Fossbytes, Road to VR, Engadget, Neowin, The Verge, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @ashannstew, @dinabass, @kentbye, @robaeprice, @dinabass, @toddbishop, @ashannstew, @dinabass, and @gartenberg
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to “significantly scale down our operations in Russia”, impacting 400+ staff, while continuing “to fulfill our existing contractual obligations” — Microsoft Corp. is substantially reducing its business in Russia, joining the list of prominent technology firms cutting …
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CRN, The Verge, The Hill, Reuters, Windows Central, Engadget, The Economic Times, Cybernews.com, Neowin, OnMSFT.com, Gizchina, and Barron's Online
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| Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
In a joint cybersecurity advisory, the NSA, CISA, and the FBI reveal China-backed hackers exploited publicly known vulnerabilities to snoop on network traffic — Several US federal agencies today revealed that Chinese-backed threat actors have targeted and compromised major telecommunications companies …
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Shared micromobility company Bird confirms plans to lay off 23% of its staff, or about 138 out of 600 workers, spanning across the organization and regions — Shared micromobility company Bird plans to layoff 23% of its staff, according to tech layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi.
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Tweets: @layoffsfyi, @mcwm, and @tomaxwell
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI and IRS led an international operation taking down online marketplace SSNDOB that sold the names, SSNs, and dates of birth of about 24 million US people — SSNDOB, an online marketplace that sold the names, social security numbers, and dates of birth of approximately 24 million US people … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple adds the ability in iOS 16 to transfer eSIMs via Bluetooth while setting up an iPhone's cellular service — iOS 16 introduces a useful new feature that allows an eSIM to be transferred between iPhones via Bluetooth while setting up cellular service. — In the Settings app …
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| Odanga Madung / Mozilla Foundation: |
An analysis of political TikTok content in Kenya ahead of the August 9 general election shows hate speech and other problematic content is spreading widely — 2. Extensive Disinformation and TikTok Policy Violations — 3. Looking Back: Familiar Terrain for Kenyans
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Rest of World, Wired, Gizmodo, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @mozilla, @odangaring, @odangaring, @carnage4life, and @mozilla
| Anton Wilen / Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabia's PIF-backed Savvy Gaming Group acquires an 8.1% stake in Sweden's Embracer for ~$1.05B, following similar deals with Modern Times and Nintendo — Saudi Arabia's wealth fund has made its second $1 billion foray into the Swedish gaming industry this year as part of a drive …
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Embracer, Video Games Chronicle, Game Developer, Polygon, Dot Esports, Eurogamer.net, Gameranx, Financial Times, Wccftech, GamesIndustry.biz, Dow Jones Newswires, TheGamer, and Blue's News. Tweets: @logmey92
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Crayta, a service built on Unreal Engine 4 that lets players create, share, and play games with friends, is coming to Facebook Gaming — The Roblox-meets-Fortnite platform lets you build games with friends — Crayta, a platform that lets players create, share …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify's podcast business had ~€200M in revenue in 2021, up 300% YoY, but had a negative gross margin of 57%; it monetized only 14% of listening time in Q1 — Spotify disclosed some key financial metrics of its podcast business for the first time — and while the $1 billion-plus … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce announces NFT Cloud, a service for buying and selling NFTs, available in a closed preview — Who knows whether it's FOMO or actual customer demand for such a thing, but Salesforce announced today that it's launching a pilot of NFT Cloud, a new platform for buying and selling these crypto assets.
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| Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: |
Immuta, which offers cloud-native data governance tools, raises a $100M Series E led by NightDragon at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $267M — Data security startup Immuta Inc. today said it has raised a $100 million late-stage funding round that pegs the company's valuation at $1 billion.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Multiverse, which lets companies like Cisco find candidates for tech apprenticeships, raises a $220M Series D, following a $130M Series C in September 2021 — We've been tracking a worrying trend of layoffs in the technology industry, but that is not the full story.
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Forbes, PR Newswire, FinSMEs, and Sifted
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Paige Thompson, an ex-Amazon employee accused of stealing 100M+ Capital One customer details, stands trial; her lawyers say she was a “novice white-hat hacker” — A woman is accused of downloading data of more than 100 million Capital One customers.| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Stock advisor Delphia, which offers an algorithm-based service via its app, raises a $60M Series A led by Multicoin Capital and plans its Delphia Data token — Investors will earn Delphia Data tokens for sharing personal shopping and social media data. — Algorithm-backed stock advisor Delphia …
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, and Blockworks
| Rolling Stone: |
Sources: Twitter is fighting a request by the House January 6 committee for its internal Slack conversations, including on moderating tweets about the attack — Exclusive: The tech giant is refusing to hand over internal communications about how it moderated tweets about the Capitol Insurrection, sources tell Rolling Stone
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Insider, Gizmodo, and Benzinga
Tweets: @bradmossesq, @jannwolfe, @noahshachtman, @blackamazon, and @repjimbanks
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Fruitful, a financial planning app in beta that offers advice for $98/month, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A and $8M seed — As inflation continues to grow persistently higher, millions of Americans are struggling financially. — With that struggle comes a whole lot of financial stress.Sponsor Posts
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