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| Brian Stelter / CNN: |
Twitter's board says it intends to “close the transaction” at the agreed price and “enforce the merger agreement” — New York CNN Business — … Who wants to own Twitter? Maybe Elon Musk doesn't. Sure, maybe he is causing chaos to extract a lower price from the Twitter board …
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Sources: despite Elon Musk's tweets, Twitter, Musk's team, and banks are continuing to work to close the deal, including preparing the 139-page SEC filing — In public, Elon Musk's erratic tweets have sent Twitter Inc.'s shares flailing, as traders bet that the billionaire is preparing …
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| Financial Times: |
Filing: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund takes a ~5% stake in Nintendo, worth $2.98B; the PIF disclosed a 5% stake in Japan's Nexon and Capcom in February — Sovereign wealth fund has already bought into Japan's Capcom and Nexon — Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has acquired …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Acer unveils the Swift 3 laptop, starting at $900 with a 14" OLED display, 12th-Gen Intel Core H-series CPUs, and claimed 10-hour battery life, coming in July — A new 14-inch OLED for $899.99 — It wasn't too long ago that the phrase “OLED laptop” implied a luxury product.| Phillip Tracy / Gizmodo: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ian Goodfellow, Apple's former director of machine learning who left due to the company's return to work policy, is joining Alphabet's DeepMind — An Apple Inc. executive who left over the company's stringent return-to-office policy is joining Alphabet Inc.'s DeepMind unit, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Russian subsidiary plans to file for bankruptcy, saying it is impossible to pay employees and suppliers after authorities seized its bank account — Departure of employees comes as Russian subsidiary prepares to declare bankruptcy, effectively ending the company's commercial operations in the country| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Amazon refreshes the Fire 7 tablet with USB-C charging, better battery life, a faster processor, and increases the price from $50 to $60, shipping on June 29 — And faster internals — Amazon is updating its small and inexpensive Fire 7 tablet for the first time in three years … | Financial Times: |
China's top economic official meets dozens of tech execs and industry experts, pledging “support” for Chinese tech companies amid a deepening economic slump — Beijing's top economic official holds meetings with executives and industry experts — China's top economic official met dozens … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
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| Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: |
Netflix cuts 150 jobs out of 11K across departments in a new round of layoffs, mostly in the US, as the company reins in costs amid slowing revenue growth — EXCLUSIVE: Layoffs are underway at Netflix today. About 150 positions out of the streamer's workforce of 11,000 are being eliminated amid …
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| New York Times: |
A profile of Do Kwon, the trash-talking founder of Terraform Labs, which raised $200M+ to build LUNA and UST; many investors avoided losses by cashing out early — Do Kwon, a South Korean entrepreneur, hyped the Luna and TerraUSD cryptocurrencies. Their failures have devastated some traders …
Tweets: @flitteronfraud, @yonettejo, and @peter_atwater
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Addressing complaints by rivals, Microsoft begins relaxing its cloud licensing rules in Europe, which made running its software on other clouds more expensive — Microsoft is undoing in Europe some of the restrictive cloud-licensing policies it first announced in 2019 which made running …
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| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Celebrities have been criticized for hyping crypto without highlighting the risks after this month's sell-off, as Crypto.com and FTX scale back on ad spending — Crypto boosters such as Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow have been criticized for hyping virtual currency without highlighting the risks.
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
CoinGecko: after Tether lost its dollar peg, leading to $8.5B+ in redemptions, Circle's USDC stablecoin circulation rose by $3.4B and Binance USD is up $1.2B — Circle's USD Coin is reaping the benefits as circulation of Tether, the world's largest stablecoin and its closest rival, continues to decline in a wave of redemptions.
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Crypto Briefing. Tweets: @chrisbloomstran, @toby_n, @zhusu, @mdudas, @jeetsidhu_, @mdudas, @toby_n, @davetroy, @degenspartan, @bennetttomlin, @biancoresearch, @biancoresearch, @biancoresearch, @cryptoseq, and @degenspartan
| Tomio Geron / Protocol: |
Plaid announces two products for Automated Clearing House transfers, including identify verification, putting it in direct competition with Stripe — Plaid is moving into identity verification in a crucial expansion beyond its roots connecting banks and fintechs — a move that could put … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Following years of complaints from creators, TikTok announces its first crediting tools, linking back to creators and trend originators within videos — TikTok is finally going to let users of the short-form app properly give credit where credit is due. — The Bytedance-owned app …
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