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Sources: Nvidia is planning to abandon its Arm acquisition, as regulators scrutinize the deal; source says SoftBank is preparing an IPO for Arm — Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress in winning approval …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google shutters FLoC, its controversial replacement for cookies, and details Topics, which organizes browsing into 300+ topics — FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), Google's controversial project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising by instead grouping users into groups of users with comparable interests, is dead.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
In a YouTube creator update, Susan Wojcicki defends hiding dislikes, discusses adding NFT support, says creators making >$10K/year increased 40% YoY, and more — YouTube is touting the explosive popularity of its TikTok-style short-form Shorts video feature — and says it's going to test …
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| Matt Wille / Input: |
Twitter code shows it is developing Flock, which lets users create tweets for up to 150 close friends, after teasing the feature in July 2021 — Twitter is developing a feature called Flock that will allow users to curate a list of people to send certain tweets out to, reminiscent of Instagram's Close Friends feature.
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| Financial Times: |
As Microsoft acquires Activision, a look at the state of the gaming industry, which generated $180B in 2021 revenue, double that of the movie industry — Microsoft's audacious $75bn move on games publisher Activision Blizzard has detonated a bomb under the games industry.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta unveils AI Research SuperCluster, a supercomputer for ML training, claiming it will have 16K GPUs and be the world's fastest upon completion in mid-2022 — Designed to train the next-generation of machine learning systems — Social media conglomerate Meta is the latest tech company to build an …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Scratchpad, a Salesforce-based productivity workspace, raises a $33M Series B, following a $13M Series A in February 2021 — Scratchpad, a company that has built a modern productivity workspace on top of Salesforce, has raised $33 million in a series B round of funding.
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FinSMEs, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Enterprise Times, and Tech News
| Ethereum Blog: |
The Ethereum Foundation renames Eth1 as “execution layer” and Eth2 as “consensus layer” to “save all future users from navigating this confusing mental model” — Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. Client teams are upgrading the protocol …
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Crypto Daily, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, xuanling11's Free Newsletter, and Cryptonews
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
John Lennon's son Julian plans to auction off memorabilia as NFTs, including handwritten notes from Hey Jude; Lennon will retain the physical counterparts — “Lennon Connection: The NFT Collection” is presented by NFT marketplace YellowHeart and Julien's Auctions.
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Bloomberg, Decrypt, NME, Rolling Stone, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, The Guardian, BBC, yh.io, and Junghoon's Direct Media …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
A look at Orange DAO, a crypto collective made up of 1,000+ YC founders that has closed an initial fund and invested in ~30 Web3 startups — A crypto collective backing web3 startups is seeking new members. The only condition for joining? Applicants must be alumni of the Y Combinator accelerator.
Tweets: @maxwellstrachan, @onchainmonkey, @thekenyeung, and @benhuh
| Canalys: |
Indian smartphone shipments reached a record 162M in 2021, up 12% YoY, led by Xiaomi with 40.5M, Samsung with 30.1M, Vivo with 25.7M, and Realme with 24.2M — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Monday, 24 January 2022
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Android Authority, BGR India, CNBC, and Pandaily
| Bloomberg: |
US Commerce Department says the global chip shortage will stretch into at least H2 2022, based on information from 150+ companies in the supply chain — The Biden administration has concluded that a global semiconductor shortage will persist until at least the second half of this year …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies raises €50M from the European Investment Bank, following a $40M Series A in 2019 — Starship Technologies, one of the bigger names in the world of autonomous delivery robots — those little caboose-like … | Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
London-based BCB Group, which offers financial services to Coinbase, Kraken, and others, including for payments and custody, raises a $60M Series A — BCB Group has announced a $60 million Series A investment co-led by Foundation Capital in what it claims is the largest Series A investment for a UK blockchain startup to date.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tencent fires 70 people and bans 13 companies for bribery and embezzlement, as China continues oversight of its technology sector — - Chinese internet giant Tencent fired 70 people and blacklisted 13 firms last year as part of anti-graft campaign. — The latest internal investigation comes …
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South China Morning Post, Tech in Asia, DealStreetAsia, and Pandaily
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Union officials say nearly half of the 6,143 Amazon workers eligible to vote in Bessemer, Alabama are new; ballots are due on March 28 — Nearly half of the 6,143 Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers eligible to vote in a union re-do election in the coming weeks in Bessemer, Alabama …
Tweets: @basche42, @spencersoper, and @josheidelson
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
District of Columbia, Texas, Washington, and Indiana AGs sue Google for allegedly deceiving users to gain access to their location data from at least 2014 — The complaints allege the company has deployed ‘dark patterns,’ design tricks that can subtly influence users' decisions in ways that are advantageous for a business
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