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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Source: Twitter's board plans to comply with Elon Musk's demands for internal data on bots by offering access to its full “firehose”, after a weeks-long impasse — The billionaire is in a protracted battle with the company over information about spam and fake accounts
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter's Vijaya Gadde told staff in a meeting that a shareholder vote to approve Elon Musk buying the company will occur in late July or early August — Twitter Inc.'s top lawyer reassured staff Wednesday that the deal to sell the company to billionaire Elon Musk is still progressing … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple will handle Apple Pay Later's lending, a first for the company; in-house subsidiary Apple Financing LLC will oversee credit checks and make loan decisions — Apple Inc. will handle the lending itself for a new “buy now, pay later” offering, sidestepping partners as the tech giant pushes deeper …
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| Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends: |
Apple says Stage Manager is limited to M1 iPads because the feature relies on iPadOS 16's fast memory swap, which lets demanding apps use storage as virtual RAM — At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2022, Apple announced numerous new features for iPadOS 16.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
After leaving Amazon on July 1, Dave Clark will join supply chain software startup Flexport as co-CEO starting September 1, becoming sole CEO six months later — Former Amazon consumer chief Dave Clark has a new job: co-CEO, and eventually sole CEO, of $8 billion-valued supply chain software startup Flexport.
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: since its launch in October 2021, TikTok Shop in the UK has lost ~50% of its staff, or at least 20 people, due to a culture clash with Chinese owners — Chinese-owned social media group launches investigation into ‘toxic’ working practices at London offices
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
In an email, ByteDance says Joshua Ma, who leads UK's TikTok Shop, will “step back” during a probe into comments that he “didn't believe” in maternity leave — Joshua Ma will ‘take some time off’ after claims were brought to TikTok by the Financial Times
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| Florence Ion / Gizmodo: |
Google releases Android 13 Beta 3 for Pixel phones and says Android 13 has reached platform stability, meaning the developer APIs and how apps perform are final — As the beta reaches Platform Stability, Google would like to remind you that Android tablets aren't dead yet. — Alerts| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Source: Citadel Securities is building a “cryptocurrency trading ecosystem” in partnership with market maker Virtu, VC firms Sequoia and Paradigm, and others — The effort also includes Citadel Securities' recent venture capital (VC) backers, Sequoia and Paradigm …
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| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Meta faces eight lawsuits this week that claim its algorithms lead to attempted suicide, eating disorders, sleeplessness, and other issues in young people — Meta Platforms Inc. is now a leader in another social media trend — lawsuits claiming the company built algorithms in its platforms …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to “significantly scale down” its operations in Russia, impacting 400+ staff, while continuing to fulfill its “existing contractual obligations” — Microsoft Corp. is substantially reducing its business in Russia, joining the list of prominent technology firms cutting …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple's iOS 16 introduces the ability to transfer an eSIM from another iPhone via Bluetooth while setting up cellular service — iOS 16 introduces a useful new feature that allows an eSIM to be transferred between iPhones via Bluetooth while setting up cellular service.
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CNET, Softpedia News, MobileSyrup, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wccftech, and WRAL TechWire
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| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Ethereum's proof-of-stake Merge upgrade goes live on Ropsten, Ethereum's oldest testnet for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet — First rolled out in 2016, Ropsten is Ethereum's oldest testnet that allows for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet.| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Vanta, which offers enterprise data security compliance tools, raises $110M led by Craft Ventures at a $1.6B valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$163M — In some ways, Vanta Inc. looks like a startup from a frothier era. It's run by a 35-year-old entrepreneur in San Francisco and sells software primarily to other startups.
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vanta.com, San Francisco Business Journal, and SiliconANGLE
| Odanga Madung / Mozilla Foundation: |
Analysis of disinformation on TikTok ahead of Kenya's August 9 general election: hate speech, community incitement, and manipulated content is spreading widely — 2. Extensive Disinformation and TikTok Policy Violations — 3. Looking Back: Familiar Terrain for Kenyans
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Rest of World, Wired, TechCrunch, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @mozilla, @odangaring, @odangaring, @carnage4life, and @mozilla
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta's head of infrastructure David Mortenson steps down; engineering and infrastructure VP Santosh Janardhan, his direct report, will take over later in June — The change comes days after the announced departure of Sheryl Sandberg — Another executive change is hitting Meta … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce announces a closed pilot of NFT Cloud, a service for buying and selling NFTs; Salesforce SVP says CMOs and CDOs “are asking for help entering web3” — Who knows whether it's FOMO or actual customer demand for such a thing, but Salesforce announced today that it's launching …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg: Meta's Crayta, a service built on Unreal Engine 4 that lets players create, share, and play games with friends, is coming to Facebook Gaming — The Roblox-meets-Fortnite platform lets you build games with friends — Crayta, a platform that lets players create, share …
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Tweets: @metanewsroom, @nickstatt, @iamoliveallen, @nickstatt, @kylebrussell, and @mattnavarra
| Anton Wilen / Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabia's PIF-backed Savvy Gaming Group acquires an 8.1% stake in Sweden's Embracer for ~$1.05B, after its Modern Times acquisition and Nintendo investment — Saudi Arabia's wealth fund has made its second $1 billion foray into the Swedish gaming industry this year as part of a drive …
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Embracer, Video Games Chronicle, PC Gamer, Gameranx, Wccftech, Polygon, TheGamer, Game Developer, Financial Times, GamesIndustry.biz, Dow Jones Newswires, and Eurogamer.net. Tweets: @logmey92
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify's podcast business generated nearly €200M in 2021 revenue, up 300% YoY, but had a -57% gross margin; Spotify monetized 14% of listening time in Q1 2022 — Spotify disclosed some key financial metrics of its podcast business for the first time — and while the $1 billion-plus …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Twitter begins testing Product Drops, a shopping feature that lets brands tease items before they go on sale, starting with select partners for US users on iOS — Shoppers can opt in to receive notifications ahead of releases — Twitter is testing a new shopping feature for previewing upcoming product releases.| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Unsealed docs show how the US ordered travel firms Sabre and Travelport to spy on a Russian hacker for two years, giving the Secret Service weekly reports — A Forbes legal challenge forces the unsealing of documents that reveal for the first time the scope of secretive surveillance orders … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
The Block data: weekly NFT sales declined by just over 70% from a high of nearly 1M units in the third week of 2022 to 250K+ at the end of May — The consumer trading boom has deflated, pushing unicorns and recently public companies alike into defensive modes.| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Toronto-based Delphia, a stock advisor app offering an algorithm-based service, raises a $60M Series A led by Multicoin Capital to launch its Delphia Data token — Investors will earn Delphia Data tokens for sharing personal shopping and social media data.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
In a joint cybersecurity advisory, the NSA, CISA, and the FBI reveal China-backed hackers exploited publicly known vulnerabilities to snoop on network traffic — Several US federal agencies today revealed that Chinese-backed threat actors have targeted and compromised major telecommunications companies …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Internal email: Microsoft splits its HoloLens group as its leader Alex Kipman leaves the company; a recent Insider report described Kipman's “toxic” behavior — Microsoft is splitting its HoloLens mixed reality group and parting ways with Alex Kipman, the leader of the group …
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Tweets: @ashannstew, @dinabass, @dinabass, @toddbishop, @dinabass, @gartenberg, @kentbye, @ashannstew, and @robaeprice
| Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Brooklyn-based Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that works across blockchains, raises a $25M seed led by a16z, after a $1.95M pre-seed in January 2022 — Tux Pacific isn't your average tech founder. They're a self-taught cryptographer who dropped out of college … Sponsor Posts
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