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Twitter sues Elon Musk, in Delaware's Court of Chancery, to force him to complete his $44B acquisition of the company, as he “refuses to honor his obligations” — The question of whether Elon Musk must buy Twitter, as he agreed to do in April, is headed to a court in Delaware.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Sources: Apple ends its consulting agreement with Jony Ive that made Apple his firm's primary client and limited Ive from taking on work Apple found competitive — Three years after promising to work “long into the future” with the man behind its candy-colored computers, Apple and Mr. Ive are through.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A critique of Ev Williams' 10-year tenure at Medium and how it got caught in the middle between Substack and well-funded publishers like BuzzFeed and Vice — How Medium got stuck in the middle. PLUS: Twitter sues Musk — Few tech CEOs can claim to have steered the course of online conversation more than Ev Williams.| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
Medium founder Ev Williams is stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by Coach.me CEO Tony Stubblebine; Williams plans to start a new holding company/research lab — Mr. Williams, the company's founder and a co-founder of Twitter and Blogger, said in a post that he planned to start a new holding company and research lab.
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| Shivani Tanna / Reuters: |
Vermont's Department of Financial Regulation joins a multistate investigation into Celsius and says it believes the cryptocurrency lender is “deeply insolvent” — July 12 (Reuters) - Vermont's Department Of Financial Regulation on Tuesday said troubled crypto lender Celsius is …
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Memo: Sundar Pichai told employees that Google will slow hiring in the rest of 2022 and will have to work with “greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger” — ‘Greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger’ — Google has told employees that it'll be …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says a phishing campaign targeted 10K+ organizations since September 2021 by hijacking Office 365's authentication process even on accounts using MFA — Campaign that steals email has targeted at least 10,000 organizations since October. — On Tuesday, Microsoft detailed …
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| Erron Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Twitter says roughly 1.5B tweets about gaming were made on its site in H1 2022, up 36% YoY; Genshin Impact and Wordle were the most tweeted-about games — Roughly 1.5 billion tweets about gaming were made on Twitter in the first half of 2022. That's ‘billion’ with a ‘b’.
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
The leaders of Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google, and 500+ business, education, and nonprofit companies urge US states to boost computer science education — More than 500 business, education and nonprofit leaders have teamed with Seattle-based computer education nonprofit Code.org …
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In Germany, South Korea, and other countries, BMW starts selling subscriptions or charging one-time fees to unlock heated seats, engine sound options, and more — The auto industry is racing towards a future full of microtransactions — BMW is now selling subscriptions for heated seats …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The Magic Leap 2 mixed reality headset is coming on September 30 with a lighter, smaller design and a wider FoV, starting at $3,299, ~$1K more than Magic Leap 1 — About $1,000 more than the original — The Magic Leap 2 headset is launching on September 30th for a starting price of $3,299.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Kontent, whose headless CMS powers over 2K websites, apps and e-commerce stores, has raised $40M from Expedition Growth Capital — Kontent, a platform designed to help companies manage business-related content in the cloud, today announced that it raised $40 million from Expedition Growth Capital as part of a growth capital infusion.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners raised $6.6B across three US funds and $500M for an India and Southeast Asia fund, and debuts a team to back blockchain founders — This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Match Group expands its partnership with Garbo to offer background checks to users on its Match and Stir dating apps, after offering it to Tinder users in March — - Match Group is expanding its partnership with background check service Garbo to roll out the safety feature to two more of its dating apps … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
SVP Prabhakar Raghavan says Google's studies show younger users often use apps like Instagram and TikTok instead of Google Search or Maps for discovery purposes — The TikTok threat to Google's business isn't just limited to YouTube, as it turns out. Core Google services, including Search and Maps …
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| Golan Hazani / CTech: |
Sources: Unity to merge with app monetization service Ironsource, valued at $5B in the merger after going public in 2021 via a SPAC merger at a $11.7B valuation — Both companies have seen their share price plummet this year and have decided to join forces, “Calcalist” … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Google says YouTube TV has 5M+ subscribers, including free trial users, making it the US' biggest internet pay TV provider and fifth-largest TV distributor — Google says YouTube TV has surpassed 5 million accounts — making it the U.S.'s biggest internet-based pay TV service.| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: Snap is exploring plans to let NFT artists showcase their designs as augmented reality filters on Snapchat; the test will start at the end of August — Social media platform is the latest to dabble in digital assets to attract influencers despite crypto crash
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| Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk, in replies to a Breitbart tweet about Trump calling him a “bullshit artist”, says Trump should “hang up his hat” and DeSantis would easily beat Biden — Former president had mocked the Tesla boss's attempt to take over Twitter| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
China approves publishing licenses for 67 more online game titles, its third batch in 2022, but Tencent and NetEase games again failed to make the list — China approved its third batch of new games this year, but Tencent Holdings Ltd. again failed to make the list, which traders watch … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok unveils Content Levels, a system to classify content, similar to age ratings in films, and plans to let users block videos with certain words or hashtags — Earlier this year, TikTok said it was developing a new system that would restrict certain types of mature content from being viewed by teen users.| Bloomberg: |
PE firm Madison Dearborn acquires a majority stake in Unison, a software provider to the US government, from Carlyle; sources: the deal values Unison at $1B+ — Madison Dearborn Partners is acquiring a majority stake in software company Unison Software Inc. from fellow private equity firm Carlyle Group Inc.
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Sources: UK payments company Zepz, formerly WorldRemit, delayed its IPO planned for Q2, 2022 due to issues with accounting and turnover in its senior ranks — UK financial technology startup Zepz, parent of WorldRemit, has struggled with its accounts and turnover in its senior ranks prior … | Zach Armstrong / Atlanta Business Journal: |
Atlanta-based SingleOps, which makes business management software for the green industry, has raised $74M led by FTV Management Company — Business management software company SingleOps has received a $74 million growth equity investment led by San Francisco-based FTV Management Company LP.
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