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| Edwin Chan / Bloomberg: |
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: |
Elon 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 stocks' downturn — Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Thursday. Unless. You know. — Oh Elon
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| Bloomberg: |
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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| 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 …
| 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| 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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| 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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| 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 plans to let a “small set” of users of its mobile app access Ethereum-based dapps to purchase NFTs, trade on exchanges, use DeFi platforms, and more — 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 employee campus, Bay View, with a “dragonscale skin” roof featuring 90K solar panels that can generate almost 7MW of energy — 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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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
As startups face potential drops in valuation and VCs demand lower spending and higher margins, some companies turn to cutting staff, marketing, and projects — Funding is suddenly scarce as venture capital firms grow stingy, forcing young companies to get frugal and focus on breaking even
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Linz-based Storyblok, which offers a headless CMS, raises a $47M Series B led by Mubadala Capital and HV Capital, and says ~74K companies use its tools — The world of web development continues to become increasingly more democratized — and more creative — thanks to innovations in … | Washington Post: |
A look at political advocacy group American Edge, founded by Meta, as the company 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 …
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| Ezra Marcus / New York Times: |
An in-depth look at OnlyFans agencies, which manage hundreds of models' accounts and use teams of ghostwriters to privately message subscribers who pay to chat — Clever marketers have figured out how easy it is to simulate online intimacy at scale, ventriloquizing alluring models with cheap, offshore labor.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Robinhood is working on a second crypto wallet, which will give users sole custody of their private keys, coming in beta this summer and launching later in 2022 — Its upcoming wallet will let users hold their own private keys — A little over a month after Robinhood publicly released … | Mike Millard / The Block: |
Certora, a 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.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Linktree partners with OpenSea to let creators add NFTs to their profiles, either as an NFT Gallery link, a profile image in a hexagonal frame, or a background — Link-in-bio platform Linktree is the latest company that is looking to integrate NFTs into its service, as the company has revealed … | Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Mastercard tests facial recognition software in Brazil, letting users who opt in pay with a smile or a wave, using tech from NEC, Payface, PopID, and others — Biometrics payments have struggled to gain widespread adoption among consumers — Mastercard is launching a controversial biometric …
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| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Enjoy Technology, which runs mobile retail stores and went public via a SPAC merger in October 2021, says it lacks the cash to operate beyond early June 2022 — Enjoy Technology, a venture-backed mobile retail upstart that went public via SPAC last fall, announced it has …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Banking-as-a-service startup Unit raises a $100M Series C led by Insight Partners 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.| Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
Fabless chip startup Cornami, whose architecture is optimized for Fully Homomorphic Encryption and quantum threats, raises a $68M Series C led by Vision Fund 2 — Today, fabless semiconductor company Cornami announced it has closed a Series C funding round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2 with over $68 million.
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