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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase plans to reduce its headcount by ~18%, or ~1,100 people, seeking to “stay healthy during this economic downturn”, saying the company “grew too quickly” — Earlier today, I shared the following note with all Coinbase employees. — Team,
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk will address Twitter employees and take questions at a company-wide virtual meeting on Thursday morning — Elon Musk will address Twitter Inc. employees at a company-wide meeting this week, the first time the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer will meet with employees since agreeing …
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Tweets: @juddlegum, @masonpelt, and @brianstelter
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Germany's Bundeskartellamt regulator launches an antitrust investigation into Apple's ATT tracking rules and anti-tracking tech — Germany's Federal Cartel Office, the Bundeskartellamt, has initiated proceedings against Apple to investigate whether its tracking rules and anti-tracking technology …
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters: |
Spotify announces a Safety Advisory Council to provide non-binding third-party input on issues such as hate speech, disinformation, and extremism — Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) on Monday announced it has formed a Safety Advisory Council to provide third-party input on issues such as hate speech … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Craig Federighi says Stage Manager is exclusive to M1 iPads because it requires the M1's better GPU, virtual memory, storage, and RAM for a seamless experience — SVP Craig Federighi on stretching Apple's iPad to fit new ways of working — Though the iPad was a huge hit from the beginning based …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia launches two funds: a $2B early-stage, venture, and growth fund for India and an $850M dedicated fund for Southeast Asia, the largest in the regions — Sequoia India and Southeast Asia has launched two new funds, a $2 billion early-stage, venture and growth fund for India …
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Netflix, which has released 23 mobile games since November 2021, says it plans to double the number of games on its service by the end of 2022 — Since launching its mobile games offering to members seven months ago, Netflix has released a total of 23 titles.| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Firefox turns its Total Cookie Protection feature on by default on desktop, after launching it as opt-in in 2021 — All Firefox users on desktop will now be protected by the browser's Total Cookie Protection feature by default. Mozilla calls it the browser's “strongest privacy protection to date …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Meta announces a Voice Mode setting for Horizon Worlds, letting users garble voices from strangers, rolling out in the coming weeks, and launches in the UK — Meta might soon want everyone to hop into its playful virtual realms, but some users are set up for a shock.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Meta begins rolling out parental support tools for Quest headsets and Instagram, including a parent education hub and additional prompts to take breaks — Meta is introducing new parental supervision features for Quest virtual reality headsets and Instagram.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Adobe begins testing a free-to-use version of Photoshop for the web in Canada; some features will eventually be subscriber-only — For now, it's testing a freemium version in Canada — Adobe has started testing a free-to-use version of Photoshop on the web and plans to open the service …
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Binance paused bitcoin withdrawals for a few hours on Monday “due to a stuck transaction causing a backlog”; the company says BTC withdrawals have since resumed — CEO Changpeng Zhao attributed the issue to a “stuck transaction,” and promised a quick fix.
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| Daniel Roberts / Decrypt: |
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
A Chinese regulator says automaker Geely plans to acquire a 79% stake in smartphone maker Meizu for an undisclosed amount and release a smartphone by 2023 — A venture run by the founder of Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding (GEELY.UL) plans to acquire an 79% stake in Chinese smartphone maker Meizu … | Financial Times: |
Alibaba and Tencent are struggling to grow their cloud businesses after Beijing's tech crackdown and competition from politically favored Huawei and others — Chinese tech giants are struggling to grow their cloud businesses as Beijing favours state vendors| WABetaInfo: |
Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp users can securely transfer their chat history from Android to iOS while maintaining e2ee, expanding on iOS to Android support — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — After announcing important changes for the Cloud API at the Conversations 2022 keynote …
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| Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: |
Pakistan-based Dastgyr, which is building an e-commerce service, raised a $37M Series A, the country's largest-ever, led by telecom Veon's venture arm — Pakistan's Dastgyr Technologies Pvt., which aims to create an e-commerce platform similar to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for emerging markets …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based TestGorilla, which offers skills-based tests in place of CVs to help eliminate hiring bias, raised a $70M Series A led by Atomico and Balderton — Sending in a resume is the main way a person hope to get noticed for a job. But a startup out of Amsterdam called TestGorilla … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Indonesia-based consumer payment service Flip announces a $55M Series B extension led by Tencent, bringing the round to $103M and its total raised to $120M — Flip, an Indonesia-based consumer payment platform, has closed a $55 million Series B extension round led by Tencent with participation from Block …
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FinSMEs and DealStreetAsia
| Bloomberg: |
Data shows Chinese orders for chipmaking equipment rose 58% YoY in 2021, as some US chipmakers claim Chinese companies are paying above-market prices — China's semiconductor industry is showing signs of flourishing even in the face of Biden administration efforts to counter its growth, raising alarm bells in Washington.
Tweets: @briantycangco, @pelstrom, @repmccaul, and @jendeben
| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based CoachHub, which uses AI to match people with over 3,500 business and well-being coaches, raised a $200M Series C led by Sofina and Vision Fund 2 — Berlin-based digital coaching platform CoachHub has raised $200 million in a Series C funding round.
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