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Sources: Meta-backed Diem Association is talking to investment bankers about selling its IP to return capital to investors and giving its engineers a new home — The controversial cryptocurrency project that Mark Zuckerberg once defended in front of Congress is unraveling after regulatory pressure.
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| Microsoft - Investor Relations: |
Microsoft Q2: revenue of $51.7B, up 20% YoY, net income of $18.8B, up 21% YoY, Windows OEM revenue up 25%, LinkedIn revenue up 37%, and Surface revenue up 8% — Earnings Release FY22 Q2 - REDMOND, Wash. — January 25, 2022 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google shutters FLoC, its controversial ad tech for replacing third-party cookies, and proposes Topics, which categorizes the sites users visit into 300+ topics — FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), Google's controversial project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft will keep Activision Blizzard agreements for three new Call of Duty games on PlayStation in the next two years, but long-term plans are hazy — Activision Blizzard Inc., which is being bought by Microsoft Corp., will release at least the next three games in its hit Call …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
In a YouTube creator update, Susan Wojcicki defends hiding dislikes, discusses adding NFT support, says creators making over $10K/year jumped 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia is planning to abandon its Arm acquisition after making little to no progress with regulators; source says SoftBank is preparing an Arm IPO — Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress …
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| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Activision Blizzard declines to voluntarily recognize a union formed by QA testers at Raven Software, after failing to reach an agreement with the CWA — Activision Blizzard did not respond to workers' request for recognition of a union formed by quality assurance testers at Raven Software, the workers said Tuesday evening.
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| Eric Martin / Bloomberg: |
The IMF's board urges El Salvador to strip Bitcoin of its status as legal currency due to its large risks, a major obstacle to the country's $1.3B loan request — The International Monetary Fund's board urged El Salvador to strip Bitcoin of its status as legal currency due to its large risks …
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Tweets: @gladstein, @excellion, @nouriel, and @pt
| Bloomberg: |
The US Commerce Department says the global chip shortage will stretch into at least H2 2022, based on information from 150+ companies in the chip supply chain — The Biden administration has concluded that a global semiconductor shortage will persist until at least the second half of this year … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's gaming head who oversaw big deals to bring Twitch's star streamers to YouTube, is leaving to join crypto company Polygon Technology — Ryan Wyatt will be at YouTube until the end of February — Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's head of gaming who oversaw some of its big deals …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked “The Epic Standard” event will be held virtually on February 9 at 7am PT, where it's expected to unveil the Galaxy S22 — After its president TM Roh teased “the most noteworthy S series device we've ever created”, Samsung is announcing today when we can learn more.| Aaron Gordon / VICE: |
Google's three years of security updates for its older phones like 2018's Pixel 3 is planned obsolescence; new Pixels get 5 years of support vs. iPhones' ~6 — Three years ago, my Pixel 3 was the latest and greatest Google phone. Now, the company has stopped providing software updates, making it a security risk to use.
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Droid Life, Phandroid, 9to5Google, Android Headlines, and Pixel Envy
| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Twitter: governments made 43,387 content removal demands from a record 196,878 accounts in H1 2021; Japan, Russia, Turkey, India, S. Korea made 95% of demands — Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts between January …
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Tweets: @donie, @policy, @twittersafety, @crush, @lculbs, @evelyndouek, @eculliford, @trentonjkennedy, and @rasmus_kleis
| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
OpenSea launches a new listing manager to mitigate a UI issue that let attackers flip NFTs at below-market rates, which it says was “not an exploit or a bug” — Yesterday, three attackers bought $1 million worth of NFTs for a fraction of their market value.| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Domain Money, a stock and crypto investing app which offers actively managed strategies, launches with $33M from Bessemer Ventures, Marc Benioff, and others — Adam Dell, the former head of product at Marcus by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., launched stocks and crypto investment platform Domain Money on Tuesday … | Matt Wille / Input: |
Twitter code shows it is developing Flock, which lets users create tweets for a curated list of up to 150 people, 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.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
SparkCognition, which uses AI to help companies predict outcomes, optimize processes, and prevent cyberattacks, raises a $123M Series D at a $1.4B+ valuation — As a result of pandemic headwinds and the general trend toward automation, the industrial sector is increasingly piloting AI technologies across different lines of business.| Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg: |
Self-driving shuttle startup May Mobility, which operates 25 vehicles in nine cities including Arlington, Texas, and Hiroshima, Japan, raises a $83M Series C — May Mobility Inc., a self-driving shuttle startup backed by the venture arms of Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW AG, raised $83 million in its largest funding round to date.
Tweets: @business
| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
The FTC and Fashion Nova reach a $4.2M settlement over allegations that the fast-fashion clothing site suppressed product reviews of less than four stars — Fashion Nova held lower-starred reviews for approval before they could be posted, the F.T.C. said in a complaint.
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SiliconANGLE, BuzzFeed News, The Verge, TechCrunch, dot.LA, and The Hill
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