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Apple discontinues the iPod touch, leaving the device on sale “while supplies last” and ending the product line after debuting the original iPod in October 2001 — Last October marked 20 years of the iPod. It's a remarkable run in the cutthroat, always-iterating world of consumer electronics.
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| 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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| Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: passing legislation in 2022 to create a stablecoin regulatory framework “would be highly appropriate”, after UST's stumble — Treasury secretary expresses hope that Congress will pass legislation this year to create regulatory framework for stablecoins
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The Block, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, banking.senate.gov, Crypto Briefing, American Banker, MarketWatch, U.Today, TechCrunch, Cointelegraph, FXStreet, and Bitcoin News
Tweets: @onchainwizard, @wublockchain, @wsjmarkets, @wsj, and @tomhschmidt
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources: Luna Foundation Guard aims to raise $1B+ to shore up its UST stablecoin, now trading at ~$0.79; one deal in negotiations offers LUNA tokens for 50% off — Quick Take — The Luna Foundation Guard has been reaching out to large crypto investors in the hope of raising over $1 billion … | Stacy-Marie Ishmael / Bloomberg: |
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| Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg: |
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Netflix executives told employees that the company plans to launch its lower-priced ad-supported tier and crack down on password sharing in Q4 2022 — Executives said they were aiming to introduce an ad-supported, lower-priced subscription tier in the last three months of the year, quicker than originally indicated.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Coinbase Q1: $1.2B net revenue, down from $1.6B YoY, vs $1.5B est., 9.2M MTUs, up from 6.1M YoY, $309B trading volume, down from $335B YoY; stock down ~16% — - Coinbase reported first-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. — The earnings come amid a major sell-off across the crypto market.
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| New York Times: |
Interviews with 50+ people detail the rapid rise of Bolt, which overstated its tech and numbers, as its valuation soared from $250M in 2018 to $11B in 2021 — The start-up has had a meteoric rise, thanks to its charismatic co-founder, Ryan Breslow. But he sometimes stretched the truth to get there.
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PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @erinkwoo, @theryanking, @uticaeric, @dealbook, @cindyotis_, @aaron_renn, @kateclarktweets, @nytimestech, @noahpinion, @bizcarson, @sarahhalzack, @mslopatto, @olumuyiwa__, @rmac18, @blowdart, @nbashaw, @bizcarson, @jfberke, @aznfusion, @ceciliakang, @davidenrich, and @robinwauters
| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
Report: ICE uses private data brokers to bypass legal restrictions and build a surveillance system capable of pulling “detailed dossiers” on nearly any US adult — Authors of the American Dragnet study say the agency is increasingly unaccountable to legislators
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American Dragnet, Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian
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| James Pearson / Reuters: |
The UK and the EU say Russia launched a cyberattack that disrupted Viasat's satellite internet network in February; the US says multiple networks were attacked — Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network which took thousands of modems offline at the onset …
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| Rest of World: |
A look at Meta's and Google's subsea cable investments in Africa, the least connected continent, as the companies seek the terrestrial links to a billion users — One sunny Thursday morning in September 2021, three men gathered at the Multimedia University of Kenya, in Nairobi, for a small ceremony.
Tweets: @nnwigene, @khushbuoshea, and @khushbuoshea
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Roblox misses with Q1 bookings of $631.2M, down 3% YoY, vs. $645M est., 54.1M average DAUs, up 28% YoY, vs. 55M est., $11.67 average bookings per DAU, down 25% — - Roblox reported fewer users in the quarter than analysts had expected, and bookings dropped from a year earlier.
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Tweets: @stevekovach and @realchrisebert
| Politico: |
Leaked proposal: the EC plans to release a draft law this week that requires tech companies to scan for CSAM and threatens end-to-end encryption — Brussels is bracing for one of its biggest and most emotional tech fights yet as companies face stringent new rules to clamp down on sexual abuse material.
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Euractiv, European Commission, and Access Now
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sony and Nintendo say their consoles will likely be in short supply all of 2022; Nintendo's president: “there's no end in sight to the semiconductor shortage” — ‘No end in sight’ to chip shortage, so makers of PlayStation 5 and Switch dial back sales forecasts| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Online wholesale marketplace Faire raises a $416M extension, more than doubling the size of its Series G round and boosting its post-money valuation to $12.59B — Faire, which has built a marketplace connecting retailers to indie brands globally, has raised a $416 million extension … | Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Certn, which offers AI-driven tools to conduct background checks and risk monitoring for employees, contractors, and tenants, raises a $50M Series B — Canada-based Certn, a company that provides AI-powered background screening solutions to enterprises, today announced it has raised $50 million …
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Tweets: @vantechjournal, @scribblevc, @certn, @charlizealcaraz, and @betakit
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Brightseed, which develops an AI-based system called Forager to identify and categorize plant compounds for human health, raises a $68M Series B led by Temasek — Who knows what secrets await in the hearts of plants? Brightseed has found a couple of them, anyway, using an AI-based analysis method …
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PRWeb, Food Business News, AFN, and San Francisco Business Journal
Tweets: @eleavenworth, @mehabecapital, and @420intel
| David Shultz / Fast Company: |
Osmind, which provides EHR software to chart and update mental health patient information and documents, raises a $40M Series B led by DFJ Growth — As the country continues to struggle with a mental health crisis that's only been exacerbated by the pandemic, electronic health-record startup Osmind …
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Business Wire, hitconsultant.net, MedCity News, and MobiHealthNews
Tweets: @osmindhq, @dfjgrowth, and @ycombinator
| Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
Dusty Robotics, whose first robot FieldPrinter automates the process of printing full-size floor plans at construction sites, raises a $45M Series B — Dusty Robotics built an autonomous printer on wheels for construction sites. The company is now worth $250 million.
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Business Wire and Scale Venture Partners
Tweets: @avidan, @forbes, @stephaniegnibus, and @amyfeldman
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Source: crypto analytics startup Chainalysis raises a $170M Series F led by GIC at an $8.6B valuation, up from $4.2B in June when it raised a $100M Series E — Chainalysis, a startup that sells services to detect and track crypto fraud, has raised a new round at an $8.6 billion valuation … | Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Mashgin, which makes computer vision-based touchless self-checkout kiosks, raises a $62.5M Series B led by NEA at a $1.5B post-money valuation — Mashgin's computer vision AI self checkout can scan multiple packaged products as well as food items in a matter of seconds.Sponsor Posts
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