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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase plans to reduce its headcount by ~18%, or ~1,100 people, seeking to “stay healthy during this economic downturn”, saying the company “grew too quickly” — Earlier today, I shared the following note with all Coinbase employees. — Team,
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Craig Federighi says Stage Manager is exclusive to M1 iPads because it requires the M1's better GPU, virtual memory, storage, and RAM for a seamless experience — SVP Craig Federighi on stretching Apple's iPad to fit new ways of working — Though the iPad was a huge hit from the beginning based …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk will address Twitter employees and take questions at a company-wide virtual meeting on Thursday morning — Elon Musk will address Twitter Inc. employees at a company-wide meeting this week, the first time the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer will meet with employees since agreeing …
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| Bloomberg: |
Major cryptocurrencies crash as the crypto market cap falls below $1T: bitcoin drops 15%+ to ~$22K, ether drops 16%+ to ~$1.2K, and Solana drops 7%+ to ~$28 — Bitcoin plunged to the lowest in about 18 months in Asia trading Monday as the impact of Friday's shock US inflation data continued to reverberate through global risk assets.
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
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| Daniel Roberts / Decrypt: |
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia launches two funds: a $2B early-stage, venture, and growth fund for India and an $850M dedicated fund for Southeast Asia, the largest in the regions — Sequoia India and Southeast Asia has launched two new funds, a $2 billion early-stage, venture and growth fund for India …
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters: |
Spotify announces a Safety Advisory Council to provide non-binding third-party input on issues such as hate speech, disinformation, and extremism — Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) on Monday announced it has formed a Safety Advisory Council to provide third-party input on issues such as hate speech … | Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Meta announces a Voice Mode setting for Horizon Worlds, letting users garble voices from strangers, rolling out in the coming weeks, and launches in the UK — Meta might soon want everyone to hop into its playful virtual realms, but some users are set up for a shock.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Germany's Bundeskartellamt regulator launches an antitrust investigation into Apple's ATT tracking rules and anti-tracking tech — Germany's Federal Cartel Office, the Bundeskartellamt, has initiated proceedings against Apple to investigate whether its tracking rules and anti-tracking technology …
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| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
A Chinese regulator says automaker Geely plans to acquire a 79% stake in smartphone maker Meizu for an undisclosed amount and release a smartphone by 2023 — A venture run by the founder of Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding (GEELY.UL) plans to acquire an 79% stake in Chinese smartphone maker Meizu … | Financial Times: |
Alibaba and Tencent are struggling to grow their cloud businesses after Beijing's tech crackdown and competition from politically favored Huawei and others — Chinese tech giants are struggling to grow their cloud businesses as Beijing favours state vendors| Bloomberg: |
Data shows Chinese orders for chipmaking equipment rose 58% YoY in 2021, as some US chipmakers claim Chinese companies are paying above-market prices — China's semiconductor industry is showing signs of flourishing even in the face of Biden administration efforts to counter its growth, raising alarm bells in Washington.
Tweets: @briantycangco, @jendeben, @pelstrom, and @repmccaul
| Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
NYU report details how influencers backing India's BJP have used YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and hateful content targeting Muslims and women in India — Influencers backing India's ruling Hindu nationalist party have used YouTube videos to spread conspiracy theories … | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Qualcomm acquires Cellwize, a software service that helps carriers operate their networks more efficiently, reportedly for $350M; Cellwize has raised $56.5M — Qualcomm Inc. has acquired Cellwize Wireless Technologies Pte. Ltd., a startup with a software platform that helps carriers operate their networks more efficiently.
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| Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: |
Pakistan-based Dastgyr, which is building an e-commerce service, raised a $37M Series A, the country's largest-ever, led by telecom Veon's venture arm — Pakistan's Dastgyr Technologies Pvt., which aims to create an e-commerce platform similar to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for emerging markets …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based TestGorilla, which offers skills-based tests in place of CVs to help eliminate hiring bias, raised a $70M Series A led by Atomico and Balderton — Sending in a resume is the main way a person hope to get noticed for a job. But a startup out of Amsterdam called TestGorilla … | Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based CoachHub, which uses AI to match people with over 3,500 business and well-being coaches, raised a $200M Series C led by Sofina and Vision Fund 2 — Berlin-based digital coaching platform CoachHub has raised $200 million in a Series C funding round.
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Indonesia-based consumer payment service Flip announces a $55M Series B extension led by Tencent, bringing the round to $103M and its total raised to $120M — Flip, an Indonesia-based consumer payment platform, has closed a $55 million Series B extension round led by Tencent with participation from Block … Sponsor Posts
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