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How Web3 apps and wallets inevitably depend on centralized services like OpenSea, Infura, and Alchemy, which don't even provide authenticated responses — Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don't think I've ever actually said the words …
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| Bloomberg: |
PayPal confirms it is exploring launching its own stablecoin, after code in its iOS app showed it is working on a “PayPal Coin” backed by USD — PayPal Holdings Inc. is exploring the launch of its own stablecoin as part of its cryptocurrency push, according to the company …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
How Tim Cook's supply chain expertise and diplomacy helped grow Apple's annual revenue from $108B in 2011 to $365B in 2021, and profits up 3.7x to $95B — Two years after the death of Steve Jobs, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claimed it was inevitable Apple would struggle under Tim Cook.| Aman Sethi / BuzzFeed News: |
A look at Meta's covert push to build a data center in the Netherlands, including codenaming the project, in an attempt to minimize public scrutiny and backlash — By the time the villagers knew Facebook was coming to town, it was already too late. Three weeks later their local councilors …
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
John Pinette, Meta's VP of Global Communications, leaves the company; he had overseen the company's public relations teams since 2019 — John Pinette ran the company's public relations teams since 2019 — Meta Platforms Inc.'s head of communications said he is leaving the company … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Signal employees worry anonymous transactions could appeal to criminals, which would attract regulatory scrutiny and aid lawmakers who want to end encryption — A push into untraceable payments could put end-to-end encryption at risk — Today, let's talk about a little-discussed story …
Tweets: @agranato42, @tante, @caseynewton, @moltke, and @a_greenberg
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A California court orders Twitter to reveal the identity of a user who tweeted photos mocking a billionaire, after the user didn't respond to a copyright claim — Back in November we wrote about a very bizarre attempt to abuse copyright law to uncover who was behind a Twitter account, @CallMeMoneyBags.
| Aidan Moher / Wired: |
Pixel art video games have experienced a renaissance over the past decade, led by indie developers, countering an industry obsessed with horsepower and realism — How retro blocks overtook 3D gaming to win the hearts of modern players. — Playing Chucklefish's Eastward is like coming home to a place I've never been before.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out a new version of Facebook's Privacy Center to some US desktop users, putting the onus on users to learn about its security and privacy controls — The new Privacy Center includes guides and controls — Meta (the company formerly known as Facebook) has announced a new version …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Ottawa-based Assent Compliance, a SaaS provider that helps companies with product compliance, trade compliance, and ESG, raises $350M at a $1B+ valuation — Never before has the importance of a smooth-flowing supply chain been as clear as it has been in the COVID-19 pandemic era.
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| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Deliveroo plans to open a restaurant in London, its first, to better understand restaurateurs; the company currently operates ~300 “dark” kitchens globally — U.K.-based food-delivery company hopes running a single-location pizza parlor in London will help it better understand the restaurateurs using its platform
Tweets: @paul__armstrong and @dollydeighton
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit could go public as soon as March 2022 at a valuation of up to $15B; the company was last valued at $10B in August 2021 — - Social media company could go public as soon as March — Reddit could be valued at as much as $15 billion in listingSponsor Posts
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