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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
A roundup of Elon Musk's newly released text messages show the inner workings of Silicon Valley dealmaking and how Musk lost interest in his Twitter acquisition — Newly released text messages shine a light on how tech's most powerful do business — and perhaps why Musk lost interest in Twitter.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Court filing: in March 2022, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told Elon Musk that he tried to add Musk to the board but the other members were “super risk averse” — - Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wanted Elon Musk on the board of the social media company, but felt the rest …
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| The Verge: |
Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned — Google is shutting down Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple VP of Procurement Tony Blevins is leaving, sources say after joking in a viral, September 5 TikTok video that he fondles “big-breasted women” for a living — One of Apple Inc.'s most senior executives is leaving after he turned up in a viral video on TikTok making … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Mark Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and cut budgets across most teams, citing the economy — Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, said it will freeze hiring and restructure some teams in an effort to cut costs and shift priorities.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter plans to add a TikTok-like full-screen video scrolling UI for English-speaking users on iOS, and a video carousel to the Explore tab on iOS and Android — Twitter is joining the bandwagon of social media companies copying TikTok's everlasting scroll of videos.
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| Frederick Munawa / CoinDesk: |
Chainalysis: sub-Saharan Africa crypto usage is driven by everyday necessity; 80% of crypto payments in the region are under $1K, the world's highest proportion — The report shows strong crypto usage and adoption rates in the region. With highly educated young people and low job prospects …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says the Lazarus group is weaponizing open-source software like PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, and Sumatra PDF Reader to compromise “numerous” organizations — PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and muPDF/Subliminal Recording all targeted.
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| Omar Faridi / Crowdfund Insider: |
Berlin-based Grover, an online subscription platform for renting consumer electronics, raised €270M in debt from M&G; Grover had rented 1M+ devices by July 2022 — Grover, the consumer-tech subscription platform, has finalized a new €270 million debt financing facility with M&G, the international asset manager.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
VMware and Google's Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware's virtualization software on multiple targets' networks — For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice.
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Cybersecurity Dive and Protocol
| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
How angel investing became a pastime and a social currency in Silicon Valley, where the “post-economic” elite bet small amounts on their friends' startups — Maia Bittner is an angel investor, and she has a lot of friends who've founded startups. Sometimes they ask her if she wants to put money into their companies.
Tweets: @ellenhuet, @markmilian, @maiab, @ellenhuet, and @hunterwalk
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Micron reports Q4 revenue down 25% YoY to $6.64B, from $8.27B, plans to cut total capital spending by 30% YoY and wafer-fab equipment spending by nearly 50% YoY — Reporting its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings today,Micron Technology Inc. warned investors that it's planning to take drastic measures …
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