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| Parag Agrawal / @paraga: |
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal says Elon Musk has decided not to join Twitter's board despite being offered a seat — Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here. https://twitter.com/...
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| Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk appears to have deleted some tweets critical of Twitter and its leadership; Musk liked a tweet saying he was “told to play nice and not speak freely” — Elon Musk appears to have deleted some tweets taking aim at Twitter Inc. amid his decision not to join the social-media company's board of directors.
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| Reuters: |
Epic Games, which makes Fortnite, raises $2B from Sony and KIRKBI, the holding company behind LEGO, at a $31.5B post-money valuation — Epic Games said on Monday it had raised $2 billion from Sony Group Corp (6758.T) and the family owned holding company behind the Lego Group, giving the “Fortnite” maker a valuation of $31.5 billion.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Google says YouTube's Picture-in-Picture support will be coming to all iOS 15 and later devices “in a matter of days” for premium and non-premium users — Following a lengthy testing period, YouTube's picture-in-picture support for iOS will begin rolling out in the next few days …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Source: Apple will face an additional EU antitrust charge in the coming weeks, in an investigation into music streaming triggered by a complaint from Spotify — Apple (AAPL.O) faces an additional EU antitrust charge in the coming weeks in an investigation triggered by a complaint from Spotify … | New York Times: |
In the absence of federal crypto regulations in the US, lobbyists and executives are helping to draft and pass favorable bills at state level — In the absence of federal regulations, crypto lobbyists and executives are going state by state to get favorable rules enacted. Many lawmakers have been willing partners.
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Sources and leaked docs: senior EU officials were targeted last year with Israeli spyware, including Belgian statesman Didier Reynders; NSO denies involvement — Senior officials at the European Commission were targeted last year with spy software designed by an Israeli surveillance firm …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
French social app BeReal, which encourages users to post one selfie per day, has exploded in popularity with Gen Z users; Apptopia says MAUs are up 315% in 2022 — Downloads of BeReal, Gen Z's hot new social media app, have skyrocketed in recent months, giving the world's mobile-first generation … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
China has approved the first batch of video game licenses since its freeze in July; games from Tencent and NetEase were not approved — China has approved the first batch of new video game licenses since July, people familiar with the matter said, ending a months-long hiatus that put the world's largest mobile gaming arena on edge.
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Netflix is rolling out a “two thumbs up” ratings option, which will appear next to the thumbs up and down buttons, to let it refine content recommendations — For nearly five years, Netflix has had simple thumbs-up and thumbs-down icons to express viewing preferences and help its algorithms provide better recommendations.
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| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
Thoma Bravo is buying SailPoint Technologies, which helps businesses give employees secure access to remote working tools, for $6.9B — Leveraged buyout market is roaring back to life after a pause amid rising volatility and war in Ukraine — US private equity group Thoma Bravo …
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
Marc Andreessen has tweeted ~350 times in the past two weeks, often referring to “the current thing” meme, joined by Elon Musk and others — Three of America's top technologists are talking and tweeting with unusual fervor. But first... - Beijing is targeting tech companies' algorithms
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