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The UK CMA blocks Microsoft's $68.7B Activision acquisition, citing competition and innovation concerns in the UK cloud gaming market; Microsoft plans to appeal — The CMA has prevented Microsoft's proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future …
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A look at the mounting US legal pressure on Binance: the DOJ's money laundering division leading a criminal investigation, CZ hiring Latham & Watkins, and more — The scrutiny on Binance, the giant cryptocurrency exchange, has sent new tremors through a market that is still bruised by the implosion of FTX.
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US senators unveil a bipartisan bill that bans kids under 13 from joining social media and requires tech companies to get parental consent for teens' accounts — A new federal bill unveiled Wednesday would establish a national minimum age for social media use and require tech companies …
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Amazon shuts down its health-focused Halo division, discontinues its Halo Band, Halo View, and Halo Rise devices, and plans to lay off portions of the team — Amazon has decided to shutter its health-focused Halo division, The Verge has learned. Amazon has stopped selling its three Halo products … | Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
PricewaterhouseCoopers plans to invest $1B in generative AI over the next three years, working with Microsoft and OpenAI to automate some of its US operations — Multiyear investment in U.S. business includes accessing ChatGPT maker OpenAI's language model, training staff in AI capabilities| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Lenovo announces the $699 Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola, with ThinkPad-compatible productivity features, available to enterprises now and unlocked on April 28 — The Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola is available in the US starting today for $699, offering a suite of productivity features designed to work with ThinkPad laptops.| Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: |
A look at the crypto hype waning in Africa, as consumer trust fades, regulators push back, startups shutter, and Web3 workers reconsider their careers after FTX — Trust is fading, startups are shutting down, and Web3 workers are reconsidering their career choices. — • LAGOS, NIGERIA
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Sources: Andy Jassy picks 14-year Amazon veteran Eric Rimling as his technical adviser, a coveted two-year position; Jassy was Bezos' adviser in the early 2000s — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has picked Eric Rimling, a 14-year veteran of the company's fulfillment operation, as his new technical adviser … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Lightspark CEO David Marcus on the current crypto winter, Lightning as a Layer 2 protocol, raising ~$175M, Libra, Nostr, Bitcoin, regulations, and more — Crypto has a lot of haters these days. The former Facebook exec is trying to prove them wrong with his Bitcoin startup.| Yaling Jiang / Wired: |
Experts say that China's mostly government-led metaverse efforts are more about supporting the economy, health care, and industry than about consumer services — The government wants the metaverse to be less about having fun and shopping and more about health care and industry.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Mexico-based Clara, which sells corporate spend management tools in Latin America, raised a $60M Series B+ led by GGV, after a $70M Series B in December 2021 — Clara, a Mexico-based spend management company, closed on $60 million in equity in a round led by GGV Capital.| Aisyah Llewellyn / Rest of World: |
TikTok Shop is thriving in Indonesia, TikTok's second-biggest market with an estimated 110M users; Data.ai: Shop Seller has had ~5.5M downloads in the country — TikTok Shop, the controversial app's ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Bosch plans to acquire US chipmaker TSI Semiconductors and invest $1.5B+ in its Roseville, California foundry to produce silicon carbide chips there from 2026 — Robert Bosch GmbH is acquiring US chipmaker TSI Semiconductors and plans to invest more than $1.5 billion in its California foundry …
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Hands-on with Asus' ROG Ally, a handheld Windows gaming PC launching on May 11 that could take on the Steam Deck, depending on the price, software, and battery — I had a fun time testing this device, but everything's going to come down to price. … Basically everything written about Asus …
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The US Commerce Department outlines plans to fund next-generation chips via its new National Semiconductor Technology Center; the CHIPS Act devoted $11B to R&D — The Biden administration announced its strategy for the National Semiconductor Technology Center, a string of facilities aimed at propelling U.S. innovation.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Some users say Microsoft Edge sends URLs of visited pages to Bing API's site; a developer says Edge's creator follow option, on by default, may be the culprit — Microsoft's Edge browser appears to be sending URLs you visit to its Bing API website. … Microsoft tells The Verge it's investigating the reports.| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $52.9B, net income up 9% YoY to $18.3B, Office Commercial up 13% YoY, Dynamics 365 up 25% YoY, and LinkedIn up 8% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — April 25, 2023 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 …
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