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Elon Musk's investor pitch deck: grow Twitter revenue 5x to $26.4B, cut ad revenue reliance to <50% by 2028, grow Twitter Blue's users to 69M by 2025, and more — Here's what Mr. Musk is projecting for Twitter's finances over the next few years, according to a pitch deck he presented to investors.
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| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The US sanctions cryptocurrency mixing service Blender.io for allegedly laundering $20.5M from the Axie Infinity hack, the first time the US sanctioned a mixer — The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned a cryptocurrency mixing service for the first time, citing evidence that it was used …
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Some ex-TikTok US staff talk of long hours, tight deadlines, lack of work-life boundaries, sleep deprivation, weekend work, and secrecy uncommon in the industry — Former U.S. staffers tell of sleep deprivation, work on weekends and mandatory meetings with colleagues on the other side of the globe
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| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
The SEC says Nvidia will pay $5.5M to settle charges it failed to disclose that cryptomining was a “significant element” of its FY 2018 gaming revenue growth — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it had settled charges against technology company Nvidia Corporation …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Google forms a new blockchain group, led by former Citigroup executive James Tromans, to make the Google Cloud Platform the first choice for Web3 developers — - Former Citigroup executive James Tromans will lead the new Google group that will build services to help developers construct Web3 applications.
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| Zachary Boddy / Windows Central: |
A major Xbox Network outage is preventing some users from launching games and starting Cloud Gaming sessions; issues related to purchases have been resolved — Xbox consoles are temporarily a lot less useful for gaming. … The Xbox Network is the infrastructure that powers …
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A report on publicly traded crypto mining companies finds Core Scientific leads with $545M in 2021 revenue, Riot Blockchain had $215M, and Hive Blockchain $195M — Mining firm Core Scientific's hash rate leads all public companies with 8.3 EH/s, and it mined 5,769 BTC in 2021. — 225 Total views| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
A California federal judge dismisses Donald Trump's lawsuit seeking to lift his ban from Twitter but may allow an amended complaint to be filed against Twitter — - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by former President Donald Trump seeking to lift his ban from Twitter.
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Legal experts say Elon Musk's foreign funding for Twitter could draw scrutiny from CFIUS for potential national security risks, similar to the kind TikTok faced — Elon Musk's decision to accept some foreign investors as part of his $44 billion buyout of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) …
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Tweets: @rmac18, @cz_binance, @carlquintanilla, @digg, @bigblackjacobin, @katie_roof, and @moorehn
| Vauhini Vara / Wired: |
How low prices and influencers helped Chinese online fast fashion retailer Shein become the world's third biggest private company, claiming a 28% US marketshare — The Chinese company has become a fast-fashion juggernaut by appealing to budget-conscious Gen Zers. But its ultralow prices are hiding unacceptable costs.| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Internal docs: Google is revamping performance reviews, resulting in higher pay, as it tries to ease tensions between staff and leadership about compensation — - Google introduced changes in efforts to streamline its performance reviews and promotions. — Executives said the changes … | Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals: |
Paris-based Rise Up, which provides employee learning software that currently serves 400+ customers and 1M learners in 60 countries, raises a €30M Series B — Paris-based Rise Up, a company that provides an employee learning software solution, announced on Tuesday that it has raised €30M in its Series B round of funding.
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