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Elon Musk says his Twitter takeover “cannot move forward” until the CEO proves bots are <5% of users, since his offer was based on “SEC filings being accurate” — Elon Musk said he'll proceed with his $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. only if the social media giant …
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Musk, who wanted to “defeat the spam bots”, is lying when he says bots are why he's backing away from buying Twitter at $54.20/share, amid tech stocks' downturn — Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Thursday. Unless. You know. — Oh Elon
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Twitter loses more execs amid Musk's takeover bid: Twitter Service VP Katrina Lane, head of data science Max Schmeiser, and VP of product management Ilya Brown — Twitter Inc. is losing three more senior employees, including two vice presidents, a reflection of the uncertainty inside …
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| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
Despite continuing to tweet on other topics, Elon Musk has remained silent on the Buffalo shooting livestream, a content moderation issue for Twitter and others — The free speech advocate had no comment on Twitter's scramble to block videos of the mass shooting| PR Newswire: |
In a preliminary SEC proxy statement, Twitter says it is “committed to completing the transaction on the agreed price and terms as promptly as practicable” — Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that it has filed its preliminary proxy statement with the U.S. Securities …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces new accessibility features, including mirroring Watch apps to an iPhone, and a live captioning tool for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS coming in 2022 — Apple has released a bevy of new accessibility features for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac, including a universal live captioning tool …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Apple delays its three-day-a-week return to the office indefinitely, citing rising COVID-19 cases; the company still expects attendance two days per week — Apple Inc. delayed a plan to require workers to come back to the office three days a week, citing a resurgence in Covid-19 cases …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
A report details the challenges that delayed Apple's mixed reality headset launch by years and the initial pushback from Jony Ive's team on a VR headset concept — Rendering by Antonia De Rosa. Edited by 9to5Mac. — Since beginning its efforts in 2015, Apple's work on a mixed reality headset …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail a BLE relay attack to unlock and operate a Tesla outside its BLE range; when told in April, Tesla said relay attacks are a “known limitation” — Security researchers at the NCC Group have developed a tool to carry out a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) …
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| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Coinbase plans to “slow hiring and reassess our headcount needs” given “current market conditions”, after initially planning to triple its workforce in 2022 — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reined in a plan to triple its headcount this year in response to turbulent market conditions.
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| Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase will begin letting a “small set” of users access Ethereum-based decentralized apps directly from its app — The move will let Coinbase users purchase NFTs, trade on decentralized exchanges and borrow and lend on various DeFi platforms.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Google opens its first self-designed campus, Bay View, to employees almost 10 years after revealing the plans — Google has finally opened its Bay View campus to employees almost 10 years after revealing its initial plans for the new facility back in 2013.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Report: the real-time bidding industry exposes a person's online activity and location 747 times per day on average in the US and 376 times per day in Europe — New data about the real-time-bidding (RTB) system's use of web users' info for tracking and ad targeting, released today … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Robinhood announces a crypto wallet that will give users sole custody of their private keys, to debut in beta this summer and officially launch later this year — Its upcoming wallet will let users hold their own private keys — A little over a month after Robinhood publicly released … | Ezra Marcus / New York Times: |
An in-depth look at OnlyFans agencies, which manage hundreds of models' accounts and use teams of ghostwriters to chat with subscribers in private messages — Clever marketers have figured out how easy it is to simulate online intimacy at scale, ventriloquizing alluring models with cheap, offshore labor.| Washington Post: |
A look at tech political advocacy group American Edge, founded by Meta, as it tries to create the appearance of grassroots opposition to antitrust reform — Records show Facebook-funded American Edge backed minority interest groups, conservative think tanks and small business groups to create … | Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Enjoy Technology, which runs mobile retail stores for companies like AT&T and went public last fall, says it lacks the cash to fund itself beyond next month — Enjoy Technology, a venture-backed mobile retail upstart that went public via SPAC last fall, announced it has …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Linktree partners with OpenSea to let creators add NFTs to their profiles, either as an “NFT Gallery” link, profile image, or background — Link-in-bio platform Linktree is the latest company that is looking to integrate NFTs into its service, as the company has revealed a set …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Unit, a banking-as-a-service startup, raises a $100M Series C led by Insight at a $1.2B valuation, following a $51M Series B in June 2021 — Unit, a banking-as-a-service startup, has closed on a $100 million Series C round of funding led by Insight Partners.| Entrackr: |
Paytm Mall, the e-commerce arm of Paytm, loses Alibaba and Ant Financial as investors, and its valuation drops from $3B to $13M — As Paytm Mall joins the government-backed e-commerce platform, the Open Network for Digital Commerce or ONDC, the firm sheds almost 99.5% of its valuation that it built since 2017.| Afsaneh Rigot / Wired: |
Tech that is designed for marginalized and vulnerable groups from the start is better, safer, more innovative, robust, and integrative of privacy — Building around the so-called typical user is a dangerous mistake. — What do Russian protesters have in common with Twitter users freaked …
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Mastercard starts testing facial recognition payments in Brazil, letting users who opt in pay with a smile or wave, using tech from NEC, Payface, PopID, others — Biometrics payments have struggled to gain widespread adoption among consumers — Mastercard is launching …
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| Mike Millard / The Block: |
Certora, provider of security analysis tools for smart contract developers to detect mistakes before deploying code, raises a $36M Series B led by Jump Crypto — Quick Take — Certora has raised $36 million in a Series B round led by Jump Crypto, with participation from Tiger Global and Galaxy Digital.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A.Team, a gig marketplace for product engineers, emerges from stealth with a $55M Series A co-led by Tiger, Insight, and Spruce and a $5M seed led by NFX — The gig economy has, to use a well-worn word, disrupted industries from ride-hailing to quick-service restaurants.Sponsor Posts
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