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Internal memo: Arm to cut up to 1,000 jobs, or 15% of its workforce in the UK and the US, before its IPO; a source says most of the cuts won't affect engineers — Arm Ltd., the SoftBank Group Corp. unit preparing for an initial public offering, will cut as much as 15% of its workforce … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
AMD plans to release the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the “world's fastest gaming processor”, on April 20 for $449, marking the debut of the company's 3D-stacking V-Cache — Along with a new slate of more affordable processors coming April 4th — AMD's latest desktop processor … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel plans to invest €33B+ in Europe, including a €17B “leading-edge semiconductor fab mega-site” in Germany and a €12B expansion of its existing Ireland fab — Along with a €12 billion investment to expand its existing fab in Ireland
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The FTC, which has long struggled to combat deceptive data practices, is increasingly forcing companies to delete algorithmic systems built with ill-gotten data — The Federal Trade Commission has struggled over the years to find ways to combat deceptive digital data practices using its limited set of enforcement options.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
After complaints, Twitter reverts its latest iOS update, removing the Latest Tweets tab and restoring the Home tab and the default chronological tweets option — Twitter was heavily criticized when it switched from the chronological timeline to the new feed that shows suggested tweets instead.| TechCrunch: |
Aptos, a Layer 1 blockchain built by ex-Meta employees who worked on Diem, raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation led by a16z — Facebook's audacious attempt at creating a crypto payments network met an unceremonious end earlier this year when Silvergate Capital acquired the Diem technology assets for $182 million.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Israel's National Cyber Directorate says the country has recovered from a DDoS attack on a communications provider that took down government websites on Monday — Israel appears to be recovering from a large-scale cyberattack. According to Haaretz and Kan's Amichai Stein … | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
ConsenSys, which develops and invests in Ethereum projects, announces a $450M Series D led by ParaFi Capital at a $7B valuation and says MetaMask has 30M+ MAUs — The hefty Series D more than doubles the firm's previous valuation from November 2021. — Ethereum application … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
RightBound, which automates customer insights and outreach for sales representatives, raises a $15.5M Series A extension, for a total Series A of $27M — AI and automation have the potential to transform the sales industry. A 2020 Harvard Business Review report found that AI could create …
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Pakistan-based Bazaar, which operates a B2B marketplace for merchants and helps them digitize their bookkeeping, raises a $70M Series B — Dragoneer Investment and Tiger Global are backing Bazaar, a startup that is attempting to digitize Pakistan's retail with e-commerce …
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Analysis: TV shows make up ~75% of Netflix's top 10 lists, the average hit fades after two weeks or less, and Asian hits overlap the least with other markets — Nobody in Hollywood knows for sure what works on Netflix. — The company releases statistics like “26 million people watched this show in the first 28 days.”
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| Michael Novinson / CRN: |
SentinelOne to acquire identity threat detection and response company Attivo Networks for $616.5M, its second acquisition; Attivo raised $60.1M in funding — 'For Attivo, this acquisition is not an exit. Joining forces with SentinelOne is just the opposite: an opportunity to continue …
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GoTo, formed by the $18B merger of superapp Gojek and e-commerce business Tokopedia, plans to raise up to $1.3B via an Indonesia Stock Exchange IPO in April — SoftBank-backed tech group to list as investors bet on booming digital economy — GoTo, Indonesia's biggest start-up …
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| Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
Cowbell Cyber, which uses AI to assess risk and offer insurance for SMBs, raises a $100M Series B — Today, cyber insurance provider Cowbell Cyber announced that it had closed a Series B funding round of $100 million for its continuous underwriting platform.
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Apple rolls out iOS 15.4 with the ability to use Face ID while wearing a mask, and iPadOS 15.4 with Universal Control, which requires macOS Monterey 12.3 — iPadOS 15.4 has also launched with Universal Control support — iOS 15.4, the latest version of Apple's iPhone operating system …
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Microsoft brings its DirectStorage API from Xbox to Windows to improve game load times and graphics details, after announcing the feature in September 2020 — “Starting today, Windows games can ship with DirectStorage,” Microsoft says. “This public SDK release begins a new era of fast load times …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
MPA: streaming made up 72% of the $99.7B global streaming and theatrical movie market in 2021, up from 46% in 2019; streaming subscriptions hit 1.3B, up 14% YoY — A sharp uptick in paid online video subscriptions and original content production for streaming platforms has helped … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Germany-based Staffbase, a communications service for internal teams to send messages and measure their impact, raises a $115M Series E at a $1.1B valuation — The Covid-19 pandemic, with its by-product of social distancing to help reduce the spread of infection, led to many organizations working …
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London-based Perlego, a digital subscription-based library of academic textbooks with about 850K titles, raises a $50M Series B led by Mediahuis Ventures — Spotify helped pave the way for a new model for consumers to listen to music: pay a monthly fee to stream whatever you want … Sponsor Posts
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