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Sources: Sonos plans to launch a voice assistant for playing music in the US on June 1 that supports Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Deezer, and Sonos Radio — Sonos will roll out its most important service yet on June 1st — Sonos is preparing to introduce its own voice assistant service within …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
At the Digital Content NewFronts, Twitter aimed to reassure anxious advertisers by highlighting partnerships for brand-safe, premium content, especially video — Twitter returned to the Digital Content NewFronts this evening to pitch its upcoming premium video content slate to advertisers, as it had in previous years.
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| Nicole Sganga / CBS News: |
Cybereason: China-linked Winnti APT exfiltrated hundreds of GBs of IP in a cyber campaign targeting ~30 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia since 2019 — A yearslong malicious cyber operation spearheaded by the notorious Chinese state actor, APT 41, has siphoned off an estimated trillions …
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| Stephen Totilo / Axios: |
NYC employees' pension funds sue Activision Blizzard, alleging CEO Bobby Kotick rushed the Microsoft deal to escape liability for misconduct at his company — Activision CEO Bobby Kotick rushed to secure a takeover bid from Microsoft in order to escape liability for misconduct at the company …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google acquires Raxium, which makes MicroLED displays well-suited for AR and VR; Raxium says its tech is 5x more energy efficient than the previous world record — Raxium claims its display tech is five times more efficient than the current world record holder
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| Greg Iacurci / CNBC: |
Intuit agrees to pay $141M in restitution to nearly 4.4M US customers charged for using the TurboTax Free Edition, in a settlement with all 50 states and DC — - Intuit, which owns TurboTax, has agreed to pay $141 million in restitution to 4.4 million low-income customers who were charged …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Cameo lays off 87 employees; source: CTO Rob Post, marketing executive Emily Boschwitz, CPO Nundu Janakiram, and Chief People Officer Melanie Steinbach were cut — Cameo, the celebrity video greetings startup, laid off 87 of staffers Wednesday, a move that CEO Steven Galanis described as “right-sizing.”
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Meta plans to slow hiring amid record low revenue growth; source: Meta paused entry-level hiring and plans to stop or slow hiring for mid-level and senior roles — - Facebook's parent company sees challenges ahead because of Apple's privacy changes, the war in Ukraine and broad macroeconomic shifts.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
IC3 says there were 241K+ reports of business email compromise scams globally from June 2016 to July 2019, totaling $43B+ in actual and attempted losses — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today that the amount of money lost to business email compromise (BEC) …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe launches Financial Connections to let its customers pull their users' banking data directly, debuting first in the US for $0.10 to $1.50 per API call — Stripe, the payments behemoth valued at $95 billion a year ago and now reportedly inching closer to an IPO, today announced …
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| Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol: |
Governor Newsom signs an EO to “create a transparent regulatory and business environment for Web3 companies”, directing state agencies to recommend next steps — California, home to crypto powerhouses like Coinbase and Ripple, is taking Web3 more seriously.
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| Tomio Geron / Protocol: |
Robinhood launches Stock Lending, which gives retail investors the option to let Robinhood lend out any fully paid stocks in their portfolio for extra income — Small investors will be able to lend out stocks that they own on Robinhood through a new service at the upstart brokerage.
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| Maxwell Strachan / VICE: |
A look at the crypto promotion market, where paid influencers and middlemen like Dapp Centre coordinate campaigns that sometimes push the limits of US law — Around the world, influencers are hawking crypto projects for pay on Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok—and sometimes pushing the limits of U.S. law.
Tweets: @maxwellstrachan, @bigblackjacobin, @taylorlorenz, @peter_atwater, @ahcastor, @walthickey, @dannosphere, and @vice
| Eva Mathews / Reuters: |
Dish launches its standalone 5G service in Las Vegas, eight months after its planned September 2021 debut, for $30/month and plans to reach 120 markets by June — Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) launched its 5G service to consumers in Las Vegas on Wednesday after several months of delays …
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| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Germany-based HiveMQ, which helps companies connect and move data from their IoT devices to the cloud, raises a €40M Series A led by Molten Capital — Helping a number of Fortune 500 companies keep the connected devices connected, Bavaria's HiveMQ has raised €40 million in a Series A funding round| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase opens its new NFT marketplace in beta to everyone; Dune Analytics: the site recorded fewer than 110 transactions and less than $60K sales in five hours — Coinbase Global Inc.'s new marketplace for nonfungible tokens is now officially open to all — and it's getting off to a very slow start.| Kyle Alspach / Protocol: |
GitHub plans to require two-factor authentication for developers who contribute code by the end of 2023; ~16.5% of active GitHub users currently use 2FA — GitHub announced that it will require developers who contribute code to the repository to use two-factor authentication by the end of 2023 …
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| Sabahatjahan Contractor / Reuters: |
The SEC adds JD.com, Pinduoduo, Bilibili, and NetEase to a list of Chinese companies facing delisting from US exchanges due to noncompliance with auditing rules — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission added over 80 firms to its list of entities facing possible expulsion from American exchanges …
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