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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
LUNA and the UST stablecoin continue to plummet; LUNA dropped as low as $1, a ~97% slide in 24 hours, while UST dropped as low as $0.27, a ~60% fall in 24 hours — Quick Take — The price of Luna has dropped 82% in the last 24 hours. — Its related stablecoin UST has retreated …
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
As Luna crashes, Terra Analytics says ~152M LUNA tokens, or 30% of the circulating supply, are being staked, meaning many can't exit their position for weeks — Quick Take — The price of Luna has dropped 93% in the last 24 hours. — Those who have their Luna tokens staked …
Tweets: @drodriguezfx, @xbenjamminx, @fomomental, @xbenjamminx, and @misinterpreth
| Stacy-Marie Ishmael / Bloomberg: |
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple will switch to USB-C for the iPhone 15 in the second half of 2023, improving transfer and charging speeds — Apple will ditch its proprietary Lightning port and switch to USB-C on all or possibly some models of the iPhone 15 lineup destined to launch in the second half of 2023, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
The European Union releases plans for regulations that would require tech companies scan for CSAM, worrying privacy experts and threatening E2EE — The proposal has been called unworkable and invasive by privacy experts — The European Commission has proposed controversial new regulation …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Coinbase drops 20%+ after reporting $1.2B net revenue in Q1, down from $1.6B YoY, 9.2M MTUs, up from 6.1M YoY, and $309B trading volume, down from $335B YoY — - Coinbase reported first-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. — The earnings come amid a major sell-off across the crypto market.| Bloomberg: |
In an interview, Gary Gensler says crypto exchanges are “commingling” services to the detriment of customers and highlights their ties with popular stablecoins — Gary Gensler is ratcheting up his criticism of digital-asset exchanges, arguing that some platforms are shirking rules …
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| Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Twitter announces a “Copypasta and Duplicate Content” policy to clarify how it works to combat spam and duplicative content and what constitutes a violation — Twitter announced today that it's rolling out a new “Copypasta and Duplicate Content” policy to clarify how the platform works … | Dave Lee / @daveleeft: |
[Thread] In an interview, Musk says Twitter has a “left bias”, he would “literally put” its “algorithm on GitHub”, and he thinks he would reverse Trump's ban — Twitter currently the “least bad” public square, @elonmusk says at #FTCar. “In order to be better at that it needs to get rid of the bots, the scams.” Live here: https://www.youtube.com/...
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter is barred from Google cases as the DOJ debates whether he must recuse himself after working with rivals like Yelp — The Justice Department's top antitrust official has been barred from working on monopoly investigations of Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
Tweets: @revolvingdoordc, @sarahmillerdc, @matthewamiller, and @saraforden
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google signs deals with 300+ outlets in Germany, France, Hungary, Austria, the Netherlands, and Ireland to pay for news content and will roll out tools for them — Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany, France and four other EU countries … | Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
Parker Conrad's HR software startup Rippling raises a $250M Series D led by Kleiner and Bedrock at an $11.25B valuation, bringing its total funding to $700M — “I don't think Silicon Valley has ever seen a comeback like this before.” — Parker Conrad is fully back.
Tweets: @realgenekim and @paulg
| Matt Schifrin / Forbes: |
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment will acquire DVD rental and streaming company Redbox for $375M in an all-stock deal — New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! — Among buggy whip businesses, Redbox Entertainment (RDBX), the Oakbrook Terrace … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
BAYC, whose average sales price dropped 29% over the past week, and other bluechip NFT collections, have been hit harder than bitcoin amid the crypto rout — Blue-chip NFT collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club, which for a while outperformed the rest of the crypto market …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb releases several updates, including searching by category, the ability to book two listings for stays over one week, and AirCover travel insurance — The company wants to get the world traveling again — Last year, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said that the single-biggest challenge …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Unity Software's stock falls 30%+ amid the company's lower than expected sales forecasts for Q2 and lower revenue guidance for the next full-year — Unity's stock price fell 28% in after-hours trading after the company reported earnings that met analyst expectations but fell short on the outlook.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Bogota-based Habi, which offers a real estate marketplace in Mexico and Colombia, raises a $200M Series C led by Homebrew and SoftBank at a $1B+ valuation — Habi, a Bogota-based proptech, has closed on $200 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Homebrew and SoftBank Latin America Fund.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
CIQ, which develops the open-source Rocky Linux distro for enterprise, raises a $26M Series A led by Two Bear Capital — Sign up here. — CIQ, a company that's setting out to commercialize a new open-source Linux distribution and CentOS-successor called Rocky Linux, has raised $26 million in a series A round of funding.
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| Chris Wack / Wall Street Journal: |
DigitalBridge partners with IFM to acquire data center company Switch for $11B, including debt; Switch plans to build an extra 11M sq. ft. of capacity by 2030 — Deal is latest digital asset being scooped up by DigitalBridge — DigitalBridge DBRG -6.02%▼ Group Inc. is buying Switch Inc. …
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