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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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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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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| 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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| 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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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Cameo lays off 87 employees, or ~25% of its workforce; source: the chief technology officer, chief product officer, and chief people officer were among the 87 — 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Uber Q1: revenue up 136% YoY to $6.85B, a $5.9B net loss due to equity investments, gross bookings up 35% to $26.4B, and mobility revenue beat delivery revenue — - Uber reported first-quarter earnings before the bell Wednesday. — Mobility revenues have finally surpassed delivery revenues, as travel rebounds.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok plans to launch Pulse, its first ad product with revenue sharing, in June 2022, offering US creators and publishers with 100K+ followers a 50/50 split — TikTok is introducing a new way to lure advertisers to its platform by giving them the ability to showcase their brands' content next to the best videos on TikTok.
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| 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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| 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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| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Paper published by Reality Labs researchers in April reveals Meta has made a custom 7nm process chip to function as an accelerator for its Codec Avatars project — The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email — The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
A Q&A with Tony Fadell on his new book, Google's “culture of perks”, why he says “fuck the metaverse”, creating and selling the iPod, iPhone, and Nest, and more — Tony Fadell was instrumental in the development of the iPod and iPhone at Apple and then co-founded Nest Labs …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase opened its new NFT marketplace in beta to everyone on Wed.; Dune Analytics: fewer than 110 transactions were recorded in the first five hours of launch — 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.
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| Chris Ciaccia / Seeking Alpha: |
Twilio Q1: revenue up 48% YoY to $875.4M, a $217.8M loss from operations, vs $197.3M YoY, 268K active customer accounts, up from 235K YoY, and slowing Q2 growth — Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) shares rose 5% after the customer engagement software company posted first-quarter results that beat expectations …
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| Kourtnee Jackson / CNET: |
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