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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard will convert all its 1,100 temporary and contingent QA workers to full-time employees on July 1 and raise the minimum hourly rate to $20 — Nearly 1,100 temp game testers are getting full-time jobs with benefits — Activision Blizzard has just announced that all temporary …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases a report it commissioned from Analysis Group, showing that the company's iOS apps “are rarely the most popular app of a particular type” — Apple today shared a new App Store study that it commissioned from economists at Analysis Group, with the report highlighting …
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Apple, The Information, CNET, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Bloomberg, iThinkDifferent, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, and 9to5Mac
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases “multisearch” for Lens, letting users ask questions about photos and screenshots, in beta for US users in English on Android and iOS — One of the most interesting announcements at Google's Search-focused keynote in September was a big upgrade to Lens that lets you take a photo and ask questions about it.
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Input, The Verge, ZDNet, Social Media Today, Android Police, Android Central, SlashGear, Mashable, PCMag, CNN, Engadget, Gizmodo, and BigTechWire
Tweets: @glenngabe, @gethyper, @backlon, and @searchliaison
| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
One-click checkout service Bolt acquires crypto payments startup Wyre, sources say for around $1.5B, which would make it the largest non-SPAC crypto merger yet — Deal extends crypto's hot M&A market following record deal activity in 2021 — Bolt Financial Inc., a payments-focused financial …
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PR Newswire, CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, Blockworks, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Competition Policy …, Coinspeaker, Crunchbase News, Crypto Executive Guide, Reuters, The Block, Finextra, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @bolt, @yannigiannaros, @timigod, @brunoswerneck, @austinj, @oduneweniyi, @bigbrutha_, @carnage4life, @mayazi, @pt, and @henrylmcnamara
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter tests Unmentioning with some users on the web, a feature that lets users select “leave this conversation” on a tweet to avoid notifications — Twitter might not have an edit button just yet, but it's still delivering at least one useful feature this week.
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| CoinDesk: |
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gives her first speech on digital assets, saying a CBDC “would require years of development, not months”, and more — The U.S. official addressed CBDCs, stablecoins and regulations. — A digital dollar could become a “trusted money comparable … | Alyse Stanley / Washington Post: |
Epic Games and Lego partner to “shape the future of the metaverse” by building a digital experience where children can play safely online, but offer few details — Epic Games has already outlined ambitious plans for the metaverse and Thursday the “Fortnite” maker announced it intends to build part of it with Legos.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says it obtained a court order to take control of seven domains used by Russia-linked hacking group Strontium, disrupting its attacks on Ukraine — Microsoft has successfully disrupted attacks against Ukrainian targets coordinated by the Russian APT28 hacking group after taking …
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| TechCrunch: |
Leaked recording: after laying off Better.com staff in December 2021, CEO Vishal Garg said the company “made $250M last year” but “probably pissed away $200M” — Vishal Garg admits he ‘failed’ in leaked recording addressing significant staff cuts
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase adds support for the popular UPI payment method in India, making the cryptocurrency exchange functional in the world's second-largest internet market — Coinbase is adding support for the popular UPI payment instrument in India, making its eponymous cryptocurrency exchange functional … | MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Singapore-based Luna Foundation Guard, a non-profit building reserves for the Terra (UST) stablecoin, plans to buy $100M worth of Avalanche tokens — The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a Singapore-based nonprofit building reserves for the stablecoin Terra (UST), announced Thursday … | Anushree Dave / The Block: |
Robinhood expands its crypto wallet to 2M+ users on a waitlist and says it will support transacting on the Bitcoin Lightning Network in the coming months — Quick Take — Eligible Robinhood customers can now send and receive crypto, the company announced Thursday at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Gwyneth Paltrow, Mila Kunis, and other celebrities are pushing women to invest in NFTs, which critics say is a self-serving feminism centered on white women — Gwyneth Paltrow and Mila Kunis joined a Zoom in January to encourage 5,000 women in the audience to break into the male-dominated world of crypto.
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Meta disrupts covert influence operations by Belarus- and Russia-linked actors targeting Ukrainians, like hacking Ukrainian military staff's Facebook accounts — Facebook said Thursday it disrupted several covert influence operations targeting Ukrainians, as the company has intensified …
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| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
Blockchain audit service CertiK raises an $88M Series B3 led by Insight, Tiger Global, and Advent at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $230M — CertiK, a Web3 and blockchain security company, has raised $88 million in its latest round, bringing its valuation to $2 billion.
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Business Wire, The Block, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, FinSMEs, CoinDesk, and CryptoPotato
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Crypto payments company Strike announces Shopify integration for bitcoin's Lightning payments network, rolling out to Shopify merchants in the US — The bitcoiner instrumental to El Salvador's announcement at last year's conference waxed philosophical on Bitcoin's role as a payments network.
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Blockworks, The Block, Forbes, Business Wire, Crypto Briefing, CryptoSlate, and Bitcoin Magazine
| Bloomberg: |
Toucan, a crypto platform offering carbon offset credits, a market estimated to reach $190B in sales by 2030, is backfiring by incentivizing zombie projects — Users of a little-known crypto platform called Toucan now account for purchases of more than a quarter of all carbon credits by the world's largest verifier of offsets.| Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: |
Sensor Tower: Tencent's Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile are the world's most lucrative mobile games, respectively earning $735.4M and $643M in revenue in Q1 2022 — Honour of Kings, PUBG Mobile and Genshin Impact remained the most lucrative mobile games in the world in the first quarter … | Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Twitter says its ALT badge for images with text descriptions and an expanded description window is now available globally, after testing the features in March — The platform said earlier this year it was making improvements to the process — Twitter said Thursday that its ALT badge …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Lilt, which offers business translation using both human translators and AI, raises a $55M Series C led by Four Rivers, bringing its total funding to $92.5M — Lilt, a provider of AI-powered business translation software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Tata rolls out Tata Neu, a super app merging nearly a dozen services the Indian conglomerate owns or invests in, to take on Flipkart, Jio Platforms, and Amazon — The 154-year-old Indian giant, valued at $103 billion, operates 29 listed companies across nearly a dozen sectors including retail, travel to automobiles
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PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, Livemint, The Economic Times, Business Standard, and Livemint
| The Economic Times: |
Sources: Indian online learning startup Unacademy laid off around 1,000 employees to cut costs; Unacademy last raised $440M in August 2021 at a $3.4B valuation — Bengaluru: Edtech startup Unacademy has laid off around 1,000 employees, including on-roll and contractual staff, in the past few weeks …
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Moneycontrol, YourStory.com, Business Today, Entrackr, and Tech in Asia
Tweets: @samidhas and @drgauravgarg4
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Mexico City-based online-only supermarket Jüsto raises a $152M Series B led by General Atlantic, after raising a $65M Series A in February 2021 — Jüsto, the Mexico City-based online grocer, continues to run on all cylinders with a goal of saturating the Latin American market.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
OpenPhone, which provides SMBs with a business phone line through its mobile app, raises a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $56M — Pam answering the phone at Dunder Mifflin become one of the most iconic refrains of life at The Office, and it's really no wonder that it did …
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