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| Moxie Marlinspike / Signal Blog: |
Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike steps down; WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton will act as the interim CEO as the search for a permanent replacement begins — It's a new year, and I've decided it's a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal. — I have now been working on Signal for almost a decade.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report: European carriers voice opposition to Apple's Private Relay in open letter, as T-Mobile and others begin blocking the VPN-like service, even in the US — Earlier today, a report indicated that some European carriers were blocking the Private Relay feature introduced by Apple with iOS 15.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Take-Two will acquire Zynga for $12.7B, or $9.86 per share, a 64% premium on Zynga's January 7 closing price; Take-Two develops GTA, Red Dead, and other titles — Deal would be about a 64% premium to Zynga's Friday closing stock price — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. agreed …
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| Geoff Ralston / Y Combinator: |
YC announces a new standard deal: a $125K investment for 7% of the startup and a further $375K at terms founders can negotiate with future investors — We have a new standard deal at Y Combinator. When a company is accepted into the YC batch program, we now invest a total of $500,000.
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| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, worth an estimated $96B, as the company generated an estimated $20B+ in revenue in 2021 — The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix draws princes, movie stars and world-famous athletes every year to party on Yas Island, the entertainment hub about 30 minutes from the center of downtown.
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Court documents show Google ran a campaign from 2018 to 2020 to “convince” staff that “unions suck”; Google refuses a judge's order to produce more documents — New court documents reveal how Google ran its anti-union campaign, ‘Project Vivian,’ between late 2018 and early 2020.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple shares 2021 highlights: developers made $260B+ via the App Store since its debut, up from $200B+ YoY, US and Canadian consumers used 30M tickets in Wallet — Apple today highlighted the continued growth and expansion of its services in 2021, including the App Store, Apple Music …
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| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Per LinkedIn profiles and former employees, in the past year ~100 people have left Microsoft's AR group that makes HoloLens and employs 1,500+; 40+ joined Meta — Around 100 people on the team developing Microsoft's HoloLens augmented-reality headsets have left, mostly to Facebook parent Meta
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Honor debuts Magic V, its first foldable phone, with 7.9" inner and 6.45" outer displays, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, and up to 12GB of RAM, coming to China for ~$1,570 — Releasing in China soon — Former Huawei sub-brand Honor has just announced its first foldable smartphone …
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| The Guardian: |
EU data watchdog orders Europol to delete much of a vast trove of personal data it obtained unlawfully; internal documents show Europol has at least 4PB of data — EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
As TSMC reports record sales, research shows chip delivery times slipped to 25.8 weeks in December, the longest wait time since tracking began in 2017 — - Shortages to persist as chip lead times rose again in December — Chipmaker's revenue set to gain 26% this year: Goldman Sachs
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
A look at Norton 360's widely criticized, opt-in crypto miner that takes a 15% cut: an RTX 3060 Ti mined 66¢ of ETH in one night, costing 66¢ in electricity — Some online accusations aren't exactly correct, but that doesn't mean it's a good deal
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
A roundup of computer monitors launched at CES 2022, with some featuring “smart” functions, mini-LED displays, higher refresh rates, new form factors, and more — Turning the page from a fairly boring 2021 — CES had a pretty good year, and that extends to computer monitors … | Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the SEC is preparing to force more transparency from large private companies, including increasing disclosures and tightening investor qualifications — ‘Unicorn’ firms have a huge impact and ‘absolutely no visibility’ for regulators, says SEC Commissioner Allison Lee
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: UK financial regulators plan to investigate Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, citing concerns over UK banks' reliance on a few cloud service providers — The Prudential Regulation Authority is concerned at risk of disruption to banks if cloud services fail or are hacked| Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tiger Global Management's hedge fund tumbled 7% last year, its first annual loss since 2016 when it declined 15% — Tiger Global Management's hedge fund tumbled 7% last year, its first annual loss since 2016, according to people familiar with the matter.| Steve Johnson / Financial Times: |
Execs and founders at companies held by Ark Invest's ETF sold $13.5B of stock in H2 2021; Cathie Wood's ARKK has lost half its value from its February 2021 peak — Bout of insider selling in Cathie Wood's flagship ETF is unprecedented, brokerage says — Founders and senior managers …
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