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Analysis: in 2022 through July, crypto transaction volumes are lagging behind 2021; illicit volumes are down 15% YoY and legitimate volumes are down 36% YoY — 2022 has been a tumultuous year for cryptocurrency markets, with significant price declines across all currencies in May and June.
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| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
TrendForce: DRAM bit growth, a key barometer for chip market demand that refers to the amount of memory produced, to rise 8.3% in 2023, the weakest on record — Mounting concern over semiconductor demand is sending shudders through North Asia's high-tech exporters, which historically serve … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Tweets: @pelstrom, @shiraovide, @pelstrom, @pelstrom, @jessefelder, @ru_unforgiven2, @iancutress, @pstasiatech, @tomtugendhat, @adam_tooze, and @andrewtghill
| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
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| Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times: |
Sources: ahead of a Fed meeting in January, Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky personally directed individual trades, overruling executives, leading to large losses — In January, Celsius Network boss Alex Mashinsky gathered his investment team to tell them he would be taking control … | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Pomelo, an international money transfer service which lets US senders offer credit cards to recipients in the Philippines, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed — Eric Velasquez Frenkiel had a seemingly simple thought when visiting his family in the Philippines, impressed by the cashless economy that had formed.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tells merchants using Fulfillment by Amazon to pay a fee of 35¢ per item sold in the US and Canada from October 15 to January 22, citing rising expenses — - Amazon is raising fulfillment fees during the holiday shopping period as the company contends with rising costs.
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PYMNTS.com, Neowin, Insider, Chain Store Age, Associated Press, Shacknews, EcommerceBytes, and Reuters
Tweets: @stevekovach, @ivanthek, @jordannovet, and @madscapital
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Oracle begins “regular vetting and validation” of TikTok's algorithms and content moderation models to ensure they aren't manipulated by Chinese authorities — Oracle has begun vetting TikTok's algorithms and content moderation models to ensure they aren't manipulated by Chinese authorities, Axios has learned.
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Tweets: @davidclinchnews, @basche42, @dlberes, @sarafischer, @evelyndouek, @niubi, @mattnavarra, @lmatsakis, @riegerreport, and @fryan
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: for years, the SEC and CFTC were hindered by banks' usage of messaging apps like WhatsApp to skirt archiving rules; ~10 banks may be fined ~$2B total — Record fines that the world's biggest investment banks are expected to pay in the coming months reflect years of frustration among US regulators …
Tweets: @cavandy, @business, and @civicfield
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based Pliops, which makes chips for data centers that boost the performance of databases and other apps that run on flash memory, raised a $100M Series D — Analyzing data generated within the enterprise — for example, sales and purchasing data — can lead to insights that improve operations.| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Top publicly-traded US bitcoin miners Core Scientific, Marathon Digital, and Riot Blockchain lost $862M, $192M, and $366M in Q2 respectively after impairments — The three-largest US publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies lost over $1 billion in the second quarter after taking a series … | Kate O'Keeffe / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: of the US exports to China that required a license in 2020, the Commerce Department approved 94%, or 2,652, applications for tech exports — Critics say the Commerce Department-led export-controls process needs an urgent overhaul, while others say the U.S. needs allies on board first
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| Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
AtoB, which offers a payment system specially designed for truckers, raised a $155M Series B led by Elad Gil and General Catalyst, valuing the company at $800M — For the nation's 3.4 million truck drivers, fuel costs are a huge deal. San Francisco-based startup AtoB aims to help lower …
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Business Wire and PYMNTS.com
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
SAIC Mobility Robotaxi, an arm of state-owned Chinese automaker SAIC that aims to launch an autonomous taxi service, raised a $148M Series B at a $1B+ valuation — SAIC Mobility Robotaxi, an arm of state-owned Chinese automaker SAIC aiming to launch a commercial robotaxi service, raised $148 million (RMB 1 billion).
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Caixin Global, TechNode, Reuters, DealStreetAsia, and Pandaily
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Signal says attackers accessed the phone numbers and SMS verification codes for around 1,900 users as part of the recent Twilio breach — End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal says attackers accessed the phone numbers and SMS verification codes for almost 2,000 users as part of the breach at communications giant Twilio last week.
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