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Amazon plans to acquire primary health care provider One Medical, which offers in-person, digital, and virtual services, for about $3.9B in an all-cash deal — Amazon's interest in healthcare and being a major player in that industry is taking one big step forward today.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Facebook splits the Feed on iOS and Android into Home, a TikTok-style tab with recommended content, and Feeds, a chronological tab of followed pages and people — While new Feeds tab will show chronological content from pages you actually follow — Facebook's almighty News Feed is getting split in two... kind of.
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| Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ arrests a former Coinbase product manager for allegedly leaking insider info about tokens before they were listed; Coinbase won't face charges — US authorities arrested a former Coinbase Global Inc. product manager for allegedly leaking insider information to help his brother …
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| Ben Horowitz / Andreessen Horowitz: |
a16z moves its HQ to be “in the cloud” and plans to open offices in Miami Beach, New York, and Santa Monica “to be able to physically assemble anywhere” — Since our inception in 2009, Andreessen Horowitz has been a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Blockchain.com plans to cut 25% of its workforce, or ~150 people, close its Argentina offices, and cancel team expansion in several countries, citing the market — The digital assets trading firm said it will shutter its Argentina-based offices and halt its expansion plans in several countries.
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon spent a record $4.98M on lobbying in Q2 2022, up 2.5% YoY, Google spent $2.77M, up 32% YoY, Microsoft spent $2.41M, down 2.4% YoY, and Apple spent $1.9M — Amazon.com Inc. spent a record $4.98 million on lobbying during the second quarter of this year as momentum intensified in Congress …
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Ofcom: TikTok is the fastest growing news source for UK adults, used by 7%, up from 1% in 2020; 32% use Facebook, 24% the BBC, 17% Twitter, and 16% Instagram — App is used by 7% of adults for news with nearly half turning to TikTokers rather than conventional outlets for updates
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
TextExpander, which lets users create customized shortcuts to trigger longer text-based actions, has raised $41.4M, its first-ever funding since its 2007 launch — RPA, and companies like UiPath, swooped into on the world of work a few years ago as a catchy way for organizations … | Bloomberg: |
Jason Calacanis says litigation, and possibly criminal charges, await the companies and “grifting” VCs that knowingly flipped crypto tokens to retail investors — Watch out venture capital, the regulators are coming. — That's the warning from long-time angel investor Jason Calacanis …
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| Dylan Smith / Digital Music News: |
Warner Music Group becomes the first major label to adopt SoundCloud's user-centric payouts based upon listening instead of Spotify and others' pro rata model — About three months after celebrating the anniversary of its fan-powered royalty model, SoundCloud has officially inked a global licensing deal with Warner Music Group.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google Pixel 6a review: good camera and flagship-class performance with Tensor chip, but slow fingerprint sensor and the 6.1" screen has only 60Hz refresh rate — The 6A's Tensor chipset makes all the difference in this midrange phone — For a few years running, the Pixel A-series phone was a no-brainer …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and others register for a license in Indonesia under which they might have to censor content and hand over users' data — Meta, TikTok and Twitter among groups to register for licences under which authorities can censor platforms| Austin American-Statesman: |
Filings: Samsung seeks tax breaks to build 11 chipmaking facilities in the Austin area for $192.1B over two decades; Samsung has made no investment guarantees — Bob Sechler Kara CarlsonAustin American-Statesman — In what could be the biggest economic investment in Central Texas history …
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
YouTube will no longer allow misinformation about the safety of an abortion procedure or unsafe instructions about how to self-induce an abortion — New York (CNN Business)YouTube on Thursday said it will no longer allow misinformation related to abortion on its platform … | Reuters: |
Meta's research, published internally in February, reveals Facebook's challenges in India, including that women are shunning it due to safety concerns and more — Meta's internal research reveals challenges in India Many women steered clear of male-dominated Facebook Their concerns included safety … | Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
A look at GPT-3-powered fiction writing tools like Sudowrite, which proposes plot twists, rewrites in specific tones, suggests metaphors, and more — On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series …
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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Sources: US is probing Huawei over concerns that gear in cell towers could capture sensitive info from military bases and missile silos and transmit it to China — The Biden administration is investigating Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei over concerns that U.S. cell towers fitted … | Jack Stebbins / CNBC: |
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia is stepping down from his role at the company, the first of the three original founders to step down, but will remain on its board — - Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia announced Thursday he is stepping down from his role at the company.
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| Stacy Elliott / Decrypt: |
Tesla says a “bitcoin impairment” negatively impacted its Q2 profitability and that it sold 75% of its bitcoin, worth approximately $936M, in the quarter — “Bitcoin impairment” prompted the sale, the company said. — Tesla sold 75% of its Bitcoin, worth approximately $936 million, according to its Q2 earnings report.| Andrew Myrick / Android Central: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and W5+ Gen 1 chips for wearables, based on 4nm process and debuting in watches from Oppo and Mobvoi — The upgrade we've been waiting for is here. — What you need to know — Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon W5 platform for wearables.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung says it sold nearly 10M Fold3 and Flip3 devices combined over the past year, up 300%+ from 2020; ~70% of foldable customers bought the Flip3 — Yesterday Samsung officially confirmed an August 10 event to launch its next batch of foldable smartphones.
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| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
A chip teardown shows that China's SMIC is quietly shipping 7nm chips; SMIC is rapidly becoming the world's third largest foundry, behind TSMC and Samsung — The Most Advanced Foundry In The World After TSMC And Samsung — SMIC, China's largest foundry has slowly been catching up to TSMC …
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Dublin-based Fonoa, which makes an automated tax compliance service used by companies like Uber and Zoom, has raised a $60M Series B led by Coatue — Fonoa, a tax automation platform used by companies such as Uber and Zoom, has raised $60 million in a series B round of funding.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
15Five, which builds HR software used at Spotify, Credit Karma, and other companies, has raised a $52M Series C led by Quad Partners — 15Five — an early mover in the world of building technology to help motivate teams, and to improve performance management for execs overseeing those teams …
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