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Sources: Snap plans to start laying off ~20% of its 6,400+ employees on August 31, 2022; Chief Business Officer Jeremi Gorman is leaving to run ads for Netflix — Snap's stock price has declined nearly 80 percent this year — Snap is planning to lay off approximately 20 percent …
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Sources: Twitter was working to monetize its adult content with OnlyFans-style subscriptions until a “red team” noted the prevalence of CSAM on the platform — Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven't listened
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Google says it has not yet approved Truth Social's Play Store app due to insufficient content moderation; CEO Devin Nunes said the decision “is up to Google” — Google hasn't yet approved Truth Social's Android app for distribution via its Play Store because of insufficient content moderation …
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
In a first, Comcast and Charter both failed to grow internet subscribers in Q2 2022, as T-Mobile and Verizon roll out cheaper home internet powered by 5G — For years, Comcast and other cable companies have leaned on a simple strategy to offset the effects of cord-cutting …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter releases its Circle feature out of beta on iOS, Android, and the web, letting users tweet to smaller, selected groups of up to 150 people — Twitter is launching its Circle feature — which lets you post a tweet to a select set of people — globally.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple debuts Xcode Cloud subscriptions for developers for up to $400/month; 25 compute hours per month is free until the end of 2023 and $15/month afterward — Apple today announced that developers can purchase subscriptions to Xcode Cloud, a continuous integration and delivery service that's built into the Xcode app.
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Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof announces a $50M Series A led by a16z, upcoming NFT project Moonbirds Mythics, and a DAO to handle licensing of Moonbirds' name — - Additional participants in the round include Collab+Currency, Flamingo DAO, SV Angel, VaynerFund and Seven Seven Six.
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Jon Peddie Research: sales of discrete and integrated GPUs fell 14.9% QoQ in Q2 2022; Nvidia's GPU sales fell 25.7% QoQ, AMD's fell 7.6%, and Intel's fell 9.8% — Shipments of discrete desktop graphics cards down to two-year low. — Sales of graphics processing units — discrete and integrated … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Netflix hires two Snap executives to lead its ad-supported tier plan: Snap's Chief Business Officer Jeremi Gorman and VP of Sales for the Americas Peter Naylor — Snap's VP of ad sales is also leaving for Netflix — Netflix has found an executive to lead its plan for an ad-supported tier …
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Sources: Philadelphia-based delivery startup Gopuff seeks to borrow up to $300M after burning ~$400M in Q1 2022; Gopuff raised $2B+ at a $15B valuation in 2021 — Instant-delivery startup is negotiating a credit line of up to $300 million after delayed IPO
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| Aditya Hadi Pratama / Tech in Asia: |
Indonesia-based ESB, which provides restaurant management tools including a POS system and kitchen operations software, has raised a $29M Series B — ESB, an Indonesian restaurant management platform, has raised US$29 million in its series B funding round led by Northstar Group and Alpha JWC Ventures.
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| Jack Stebbins / CNBC: |
Royal Caribbean Cruises partners with SpaceX's Starlink to offer onboard internet across all its ships, with installation scheduled to be completed early 2023 — - Royal Caribbean Cruises will begin offering onboard internet via SpaceX's Starlink satellite network.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 13 review: a small update, but 2022's second after March's tablet-focused 12L update, finally brings a task manager, notification permissions, and more — Android 13 is a very small update, but it's also the second one this year. — The Android update treadmill continues with the release of Android 13.| Jeffrey T. Lewis / MarketWatch: |
CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $535.2M, subscription revenue up 60% YoY to $506.2M, and subscription customers up 51% YoY to 19,686 — CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.'s loss narrowed in its second quarter from a year earlier after subscription revenue jumped higher.
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| Arno Maierbrugger / Investvine: |
Indonesia's largest tech company GoTo posted a ~$955M net loss for H1 2022 and announces the acquisition of local crypto exchange Kripto Maksima Koin for $8.4M — Indonesia's biggest e-commerce company GoTo on August 30 posted a half-year net loss of 14.17 trillion rupiah ($955 million) …
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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number or 8.5% originated from Pinterest — One of the biggest frustrations of text-to-image generation AI models is that they feel like a black box.
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Semiconductor shipments from South Korean chipmakers fell 22.7% YoY in July, the first drop in almost three years according to the national statistics office — South Korean chipmakers recorded their first fall in factory shipments in almost three years in July, highlighting weakening demand … | Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
In an SEC filing, Elon Musk adds Peiter Zatko's allegations as a reason to terminate the $44B takeover bid, saying Twitter is in “material noncompliance” — Elon Musk has cited the recent accusations from a Twitter Inc. whistle-blower as a new reason to terminate the $44 billion takeover of the social media platform.
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