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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tells staff in an email that Elon Musk will hold an internal AMA, to address employee concerns that Musk will sabotage company culture — Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees after a week of internal outcries over his appointment …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says it obtained a court order on April 6 to take control of seven domains and disrupt Russia-linked hacking group Strontium's attacks against Ukraine — Microsoft has successfully disrupted attacks against Ukrainian targets coordinated by the Russian APT28 hacking group after taking … | 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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| 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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| 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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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 …
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| 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 …
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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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| Anushree Dave / The Block: |
Robinhood expands its crypto wallet to 2M+ users on a waitlist and says it will support transacting on bitcoin's 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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| 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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Tweets: @backlon, @searchliaison, @gethyper, and @glenngabe
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
China's Zhiyi Tech, which provides AI tools to help fashion brands better predict bestsellers for e-commerce livestreaming, has raised ~$100M over three rounds — In China, live streaming promotion is emerging as a popular way for brands and influencers to reach consumers …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Built Robotics, which makes autonomous construction equipment, raises a $64M Series C led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $112M — If you're still wrapping your head around the idea of self-driving cars, get ready for something that might seem even wilder …
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| 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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Tweets: @epicnewsroom, @lego_group, @ldignan, @raffers, @thedextriarchy, @hijodelcuervo, and @parismarx
| Bloomberg: |
Crypto platform Toucan's efforts to offer carbon offset credits, an estimated $190B market in sales by 2030, are backfiring as they incentivize 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.
Tweets: @willoremus, @aaschapiro, @akshatrathi, and @climate
| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Kumo, whose AI platform uses graph neural networks to help companies predict better, raises a $18.5M Series A led by Sequoia Capital at a $100M valuation — Modern businesses possess complicated networks of data, connecting information like customer behavior to marketing campaigns or fraud detection.| Reuters: |
Brookfield Business Partners acquires CDK Global for $6.41B in cash, taking private the last major public provider of software to auto dealers and manufacturers — Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.N) is buying CDK Global Inc (CDK.O) for $6.41 billion in cash, taking private …
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Chicago Business, Daily Herald, MarketWatch, CDK Global Inc., and Bloomberg. Tweets: @quinnypig
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Viz.ai, which uses AI to quickly detect signs of stroke and other diseases, raises a $100M Series D led by Tiger Global and Insight at a $1.2B valuation — The Israeli startup develops an AI-powered disease detection and care coordination platform which is already in use in over 1,000 hospitals, serving millions of patients| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Crypto payments startup Strike announces Shopify integration for bitcoin's Lightning Network, letting Shopify merchants in the US opt-in to the payment option — 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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Business Wire, Forbes, Crypto Briefing, Blockworks, The Block, Forbes, and Bitcoin Magazine. Tweets: @astroboysoup
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's payments body refuses to acknowledge Coinbase's India launch, saying it is not aware of any cryptocurrency exchange using the UPI payments instrument — The National Payments Corporation of India, the governing body that oversees UPI in the country, said in a statement on Thursday evening … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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