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a16z invests in Adam Neumann's residential real estate management startup Flow, sources say ~$350M at a $1B+ valuation, the firm's largest-ever individual check — WeWork's founder is back with a billion-dollar venture. — WeWork's founder is going residential
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple ads team lead Todd Teresi now reports directly to Eddy Cue and wants to increase the group's ad revenues from $4B per year to double digits — Apple is set to expand ads to new areas of your iPhone and iPad in search of its next big revenue driver.
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| Lucy Harley-McKeown / The Block: |
Galaxy Digital terminates its $1.2B acquisition of crypto custodian BitGo, announced in May 2021, after the service failed to provide audited statements — - Galaxy Digital announced on Monday that it would terminate its deal with crypto custodian BitGo, which had been announced in May 2021.
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Silicon Valley Business …, Blockworks, Decrypt, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, Barron's Online, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, Coinspeaker, MarketWatch, and CryptoPotato
Tweets: @lopp and @arrington
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A “jailbreak” for John Deere tractors, helping farmers modify and repair them, highlights issues with securing farm equipment and the right-to-repair debate — A hacker has formulated an exploit that provides root access to two popular models of the company's farm equipment.
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Slashdot
Tweets: @andrewcouts, @dcuthbert, @banditelli, @datnofact, @sickcodes, @lukolejnik, and @bnox
| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Ahead of the US midterms, a look at TikTok's ongoing struggles to contain misinformation during elections, such as in Australia, France, and Kenya this year — The fast-growing platform's poor track record during recent voting abroad does not bode well for elections in the U.S., researchers said.
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Mozilla Foundation. Tweets: @nytimes, @will_doran, @vmramos, @guingonabart, @terri_rupar, @lolnevertweet, @mattyglesias, and @carnage4life
| David McCabe / New York Times: |
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CSO. Tweets: @nytimes, @julianku, @fryan, @pkafka, @riegerreport, @danharris, @profcarroll, and @amanbatheja
| Bobby Kent / GameLuster: |
Court docs in Brazil show Microsoft sold approximately 58.5M Xbox One units in total, or half of the PS4's 117.2M sales; Microsoft has long hidden sales figures — A high-profile case is ongoing in Brazil, as Microsoft attempts to defend its Activision Blizzard acquisition from CADE, the Brazilian competition authority.
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The Verge, Eurogamer.net, PCMag, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, GameSpot, Pure Xbox, Gizchina, Gameranx, Stevivor, Game Rant, TrueAchievements, GamingBolt, Thurrott, Appuals.com, and TheGamer
Tweets: @tomwarren, @toadsanime, @nextgenplayer, and @gossithedog
| Margaret O'Mara / MIT Technology Review: |
An in-depth look at Silicon Valley's historical corporate culture, how straight white men benefitted, and efforts by women and minorities to push for change — A new generation of tech activists, organizers, and whistleblowers, most of whom are female, non-white, gender-diverse, or queer, may finally bring change.
Tweets: @patrickmcgee_, @adrianafreitas, @amydiehl, @margaretomara, @aarieff, @sub8u, @aarieff, @girlswhocode, @rcourt, and @charlottejee
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Snap says its Snapchat+ subscription, launched in June, now has 1M+ users globally and adds features, including priority Story replies to celebs — It's not going to make much of a dent to offset Snap's stalling ad business, but the company is touting that it has signed up more than 1 million subscribers …
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TechCrunch, Reuters, Adweek, and Snap Newsroom
| Reuters: |
Unity Software rejects AppLovin's $17.54B all-stock takeover offer, saying it would proceed with its deal to acquire ironSource for $4.4B in stock — Gaming software maker Unity Software Inc (U.N) on Monday rejected AppLovin Corp's (APP.O) $17.54 billion takeover offer and said it would go ahead …
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Around two years ago, Apple updated its employee conduct policy to prohibit discrimination on the basis of caste, making it a leader on the issue alongside IBM — America's tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India's ancient caste system, with Apple (AAPL.O) … | Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Google Maps in the US regularly misleads people looking for abortion providers, instead pointing them towards non-medical crisis pregnancy centers — Chey was a 19-year-old college sophomore living near Orlando, Florida, when she discovered she was pregnant and decided to have an abortion.
Tweets: @daveyalba, @daveyalba, @jackgillum, @parmy, @parmy, @parmy, @davidjoachim, @wexler, and @annmarie
| Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine: |
An in-depth look at the fall of Three Arrows Capital, led by Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, which built a solid reputation only to vaporize billions of dollars — Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital. They knew what they were doing — right? — The boat was a beauty of a thing …
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