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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Facebook is planning to change its company name to reflect its focus on the metaverse as soon as next week at Connect, its annual AR/VR conference — Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse — Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Alongside Pixel 6, Google unveils Wait Times, which lists the current hold time for a customer support number, Hold for Me, Direct My Call, and more — It can tell you how long hold times are and figure out which business is calling — The Pixel 6 is Google's first phone with a custom-designed SoC … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says 20+ employees, including developers and supervisors, “exited” the company and 20+ faced disciplinary action after misconduct complaints — It reprimanded more than 20 others — Activision Blizzard says more than 20 employees have “exited” the company …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Brave replaces Google with its own privacy-centric Brave Search as the default search engine in its browser — As part of its ongoing push to eliminate Google as much as possible from our daily web experiences, Brave is removing Google Search as its default search engine.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
District of Columbia AG Karl Racine plans to add Mark Zuckerberg to an ongoing privacy lawsuit, which began in 2018 following the Cambridge Analytica scandal — The District of Columbia case, which grew out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, could expose the chief executive to financial and other penalties.
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| Naman Ramachandran / Variety: |
UK's CMA fines Facebook £50.5M for breaching an order imposed during its ongoing Giphy acquisition investigation, saying Facebook refused to report information — Social media giant Facebook has been fined £50.5 million ($69.1 million) for breaching an order imposed …
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| Michael Wursthorn / Wall Street Journal: |
ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF gained nearly 5% in its NYSE debut, with ~$981M in trading volume, making it the second most traded ETF debut ever per FactSet — ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF advances nearly 5% following its closely watched launch — The first bitcoin-focused exchange-traded fund rose …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: China's Oppo is developing high-end mobile chips, using TSMC's 3nm tech, for its premium handsets due out in 2023 or 2024 — China's top handset maker looks to use TSMC's cutting-edge 3-nm tech — TAIPEI — China's leading smartphone maker Oppo is developing high-end mobile chips …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple botched the notch on the MacBook Pros by leaving out Face ID; the bezels are smaller but not ultrathin like on Dell and HP rivals — All the downsides of the notch, without the Face ID benefits — The day that many have been dreading has finally arrived. Apple has added a notch to its new MacBook Pros.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q3 revenue of $7.48B, up 16% YoY, operating income of $1.76B, up 33% YoY, and 214M paid subs, adding 4.4M YoY and beating estimates of 3.84M — - Netflix is set to report earnings after the bell Tuesday. — Netflix shares were up more than 2% after-the-bell Tuesday after the company posted third quarter results.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Deci, which helps build AI models that can work with available data and compute power, raises a $21M Series A led by Insight Partners — Building usable models to run AI algorithms requires not just adequate data to train systems, but also the right hardware subsequently to run them.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Invicti Security, which helps companies secure web apps, raises $625M led by Summit Partners; Invicti was created by merging Netsparker and Acunetix in 2017 — Application security testing startup Invicti Security Ltd. will have bags of money to play with after raising a $625 million funding round led by Summit Partners.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China tells McDonald's to expand its e-renminbi payments system ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics; source says Visa and Nike are also under pressure — Digital renminbi issued by central bank draws security concerns from US critics — China has told McDonald's to expand … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify partners with Shopify to let artists list merch on profiles for $29/month to $299/month, starting in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — Spotify on Wednesday announced a new partnership with ecommerce provider Shopify to let artists list merchandise directly on their profiles …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snap launches a global creative studio called Arcadia to help brands develop AR ads and experiences, partnering with companies like Verizon and WWE — Snap announced on Tuesday that it's launching a global creative studio to help brands develop augmented reality (AR) advertising and experiences.| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Animoca Brands, which lets players own in-game items as NFTs, raises $65M at a $2.2B valuation, up from $1B in May — Animoca Brands, a prominent investor in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized gaming, has completed a capital raise of $65 million at a $2.2 billion valuation, the company announced Wednesday.
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| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Jack Ma has left China for the first time since Alibaba came under regulatory pressure last November, traveling to Europe to see friends — The Alibaba co-founder's trip to Europe suggests he hasn't been banned from leaving the country by Chinese authorities
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| BBC: |
UK's Royal Mint partners with Canadian startup Excir to extract and recycle gold and precious metals from old smartphones and laptops — Gold and precious metals are to be extracted from old phones and laptops by Britain's coin-maker. — The Royal Mint plans to introduce a world … | Lydia O'Neal / Wall Street Journal: |
Flock Freight, which uses AI to help shippers pool goods, raises a $215M Series D at a $1.3B valuation led by Vision Fund 2, bringing total raised to $399M — The startup uses AI to pool goods from shippers with less-than-truckload carriers and skip freight hubs. The new funding round values the company at $1.3 billion
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Draft EU document: finalization of the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act has been pushed back further into next year from an initial spring 2022 goal — European Union countries will delay a key target of finalizing new rules hitting tech platforms by the spring of next year … Sponsor Posts
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