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Hackers drain nearly the entire $190.7M in crypto from the Nomad token bridge, which raised an April 2022 seed from Coinbase, OpenSea, and five other companies — Hundreds of potential exploiters appear to have drained all of the bridge's $190 million in TVL in just a matter of hours. — 57 Total views
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| Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: |
New York's State Department of Financial Services fines Robinhood's crypto unit $30M for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and cybersecurity regulations — The New York State Department of Financial Services alleges that Robinhood violated anti-money-laundering and cybersecurity regulations
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Samsung launches its iFixit repair program, covering Galaxy S20, S21, and Tab S7+ devices; S22 flagships are not supported and the number of repairs are limited — But not its latest phones and tablets — Samsung and Fixit have launched their repair program that lets Galaxy S20, S21 …
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| Sofia Pitt / CNBC: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 105% YoY to $8.1B, above $7.39B estimates, a $2.6B net loss, and mobility gross bookings up 55% YoY to $13.4B; stock closes up 18.9% — - Uber reported a net loss of $2.6 billion for the second quarter, $1.7 billion of which was attributed to investments …
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| Washington Post: |
Legal docs: in its Elon Musk lawsuit, Twitter subpoenaed info about Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, Steve Jurvetson, Marc Andreessen, Jason Calacanis, others — Twitter has subpoenaed information about elite Silicon Valley investors Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, and Steve Jurvetson
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| Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood plans to cut its headcount by ~23% over “additional deterioration of the macro environment”, after laying off ~9% of full-time employees in April 2022 — The job cuts mark the second round of layoffs for the online brokerage, which exploded in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic
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| Bloomberg: |
The Chips and Science Act bars companies that get US federal funding from adding production of advanced chips in China, impacting Intel, TSMC, and others — As the US Congress passed an historic $52 billion federal program to boost domestic chipmaking capabilities, it included one significant caveat …
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| Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: |
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor steps down and takes executive chairman role “to focus more on our bitcoin acquisition strategy”; president Phong Le named CEO — - Michael Saylor is set to step down from his role as CEO and become an executive chairman.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: e-commerce marketing automation service Klaviyo raised $100M from Shopify; Klaviyo has raised ~$775M to date and was valued at $9.5B in May 2021 — Ecommerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has received a $100 million strategic investment from Shopify … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Adam Mosseri plans to temporarily relocate to London and build out Instagram's presence over the coming months at Meta's King's Cross offices — UK capital will effectively become social media app's base as parent Meta battles TikTok — Instagram head Adam Mosseri is moving to London …
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| Insider: |
As TikTok grows in the Middle East and North Africa, its regional content moderators complain of psychological distress and pay of around $2 to $3 per hour — - As TikTok gains in popularity in the Middle East and North Africa, it's ramping up its content moderation operation in the region.
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| Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: despite a November 2019 pledge to slow down, Masayoshi Son pushed SoftBank staff into investing $38B out of Vision Fund 2 across 180+ companies in 2021 — CEO Masayoshi Son pledged to curb his aggressive investment bets yet plunged into startups last year at the market top
Tweets: @eliotwb, @mattzeitlin, @alexfrangos, and @wsj
| CNBC: |
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 70% YoY to $6.6B, vs $6.53B est., including Data Center segment sales up 83% YoY to $1.5B and Client segment sales up 25% YoY to $2.2B — - AMD reported earnings for the quarter ending in June that beat estimates. — The company gave a forecast for the current quarter …
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Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $2.1B, vs $2.11B est., $379M net income, up from a loss of $68M YoY, and a $2B stock buyback program — - Revenue jumped 58% year-over-year to $2.1 billion helping to drive the company's most profitable second quarter to date.Sponsor Posts
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