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Sources: Musk has pitched charging most or all users a subscription fee to use Twitter; internal estimates show the new Blue could actually lose Twitter money — Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Twitter is telling advertisers the site added 15M+ mDAUs since the end of Q2, “crossing the quarter billion mark”; Musk also tweeted user numbers are up — Twitter's daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Early Twitter investor Chris Sacca says Elon Musk is “alone right now and winging this” and needs people around him who can “speak some truth to power” — - Venture capitalist Chris Sacca was one of Twitter's first investors and an early user.
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| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says “FTX is fine” as Binance begins selling FTX's FTT token; an Alameda balance sheet leaked on November 2 showed $8B in liabilities — - FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried insisted his crypto exchange is “fine” after rival Binance announced it would start selling its holdings of FTX's FTT token.
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| CoinDesk: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao plans to sell the remaining FTT tokens received from exiting FTX equity in 2021; FTX-linked Alameda offers to buy them for $22 each — Alameda's CEO offered to buy Binance's FTT token holdings for $22 apiece. — Binance's CEO, responding to a CoinDesk scoop …
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ seized 50,676 bitcoins in November 2021, now worth ~$1B, from James Zhong, who pled guilty to wire fraud for taking the coins from Silk Road in 2012 — The bitcoins, obtained in in 2012, were valued at $3.36 billion when discovered in November; now they're worth $1.04 billion.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
An interview with YouTube Shorts Director of Product Management Todd Sherman on UI challenges as YouTube rolls out the TikTok competitor to its TV apps — YouTube Shorts is working. That much Todd Sherman knows for sure. Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube's endless-scrolling …
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YouTube Official Blog, YouTube Viewers, MIT Technology Review, XDA Developers, Adweek, TechCrunch, iMore, TechRadar, Social Media Today, Thurrott, BGR, 9to5Google, Android Central, Pocket-lint, Redmond Pie, Engadget, Deadline, Tubefilter, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @tdd, @mattnavarra, @nealmohan, and @dcseifert
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Some NFT marketplaces stop honoring NFT royalties, usually a 5%-10% fee set by the creator and paid by sellers on secondary market sales, rocking the community — Creators sound the alarm after the marketplace reveals its plans, which include blacklisting rivals and potentially optional royalties.
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Cryptopolitan, ONE37pm, and CoinDesk
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Activision Blizzard reports Q3 net bookings down 3% YoY to $1.83B vs. $1.7B est., and MAUs down 6% YoY to 368M; Modern Warfare II made $1B+ in its first 10 days — Activision Blizzard reported that its bookings for the third quarter ended September 30 fell 3% to $1.83 billion compared to a year ago.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal launches its Stories feature out of beta on Android and iOS; users' Stories will automatically expire after 24 hours — End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a new Stories feature to all users on Android and iOS, the company announced on Monday.
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| Allison Pohle / Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb plans to show the total cost of stays including cleaning fees in its search results starting in December 2022, after announcing a fee review in May 2021 — The travel company also says it will make predeparture cleaning requirements easier for customers to find earlier in their search
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Lyft reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.05B, riders up 7% YoY to 20.31M, vs. 21.3M est., and a $422.2M net loss, up from $99.7M YoY; the stock drops 10%+ — The number of people using the ride-sharing app grew less than analysts had been predicting — Uber, Lyft and the Crucial Challenge for Profitability in 2022
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