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January 10, 2022, 12:30 PM

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Business Wire:
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  —  Take-Two to acquire all the outstanding shares of Zynga for a total value of $9.861 per share - $3.50 in cash and $6.361 in shares …
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.
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
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 …
Simon Parkin / The Guardian:
Roblox's aim of encouraging children to make games has been its key to success but is fraught with dangers, as some face stress, burnout, and exploitation  —  Young developers on the platform used by many millions of children claim they have been financially exploited, threatened with dismissal and sexually harassed
The Guardian:
EU data watchdog orders Europol to delete a vast trove of personal data it obtained unlawfully; internal documents show Europol has around 4PB of data  —  EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency
Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the SEC is pushing for 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
Jon Porter / The Verge:
A roundup of Samsung Galaxy S22 series leaks, including specs, an unboxing video of dummy units, and an alleged image of the S22 Ultra's 45W fast charger  —  A new unboxing video has shown potential designs for the three handsets  —  A video from Unbox Therapy has shown off what appears …
Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer:
An open-source developer, expressing regret for supporting “Fortune 500s”, breaks ~19K projects by corrupting popular NPM libraries; GitHub reverts the changes  —  Users of popular open-source libraries ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ were left stunned after they saw their applications …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple could radically improve its money management services: expand Apple Card beyond US, add checking and savings accounts, ambitiously expand Wallet, more  —  Hey everyone, it's Mark.  Apple could shake up the fintech world with an Apple Card expansion, checking accounts and more.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:

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