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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Elon Musk pitched charging most or all Twitter users for a subscription; internal estimates show Blue could lose the company ~$6/user/month in the US — Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Twitter tells advertisers the service added 15M+ mDAUs since the end of Q2, “crossing the quarter billion mark”; Musk also tweeted user numbers are up — Twitter's daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Early Twitter investor Chris Sacca says Elon Musk is “alone right now and winging this” and needs people around him willing to “speak some truth to power” — - Venture capitalist Chris Sacca was one of Twitter's first investors and an early user.
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
FTX's FTT drops 19%+ to ~$18 as investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda; Nansen shows FTX outflows reached $450M+ — FTT has declined nearly 20% over the course of an hour, with Solana's SOL down 17% and Serum's SRM off 10%.
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| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says “FTX is fine” as Binance begins selling FTX's FTT token; an Alameda balance sheet leaked on November 2 showed $8B in liabilities — - FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried insisted his crypto exchange is “fine” after rival Binance announced it would start selling its holdings of FTX's FTT token.
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Tweets: @cz_binance, @sbf_ftx, @carolinecapital, @ftx_official, @cz_binance, @starokg, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @milesdeutscher, @hsakatrades, @ki_young_ju, @sbf_ftx, @raoulgmi, @autismcapital, @heyibinance, @asvanevik, @coinmamba, @asvanevik, @timccopeland, @cz_binance, @samuelalpha77, @asvanevik, @johnreedstark, @dystopiabreaker, @jimcramer, @cz_binance, and @emilyjnicolle
| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Nvidia offers Chinese customers the A800 GPU, which the company says meets US export control rules, as an alternative to the A100 that the US banned for export — U.S. chip maker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Monday it is offering a new advanced chip in China that meets recent export control rules aimed … | Financial Times: |
Apple is now more profitable than Chinese tech giants as its bargain with Beijing lets the company evade the tech crackdown while gaining from US chip sanctions — The most profitable tech company operating in China is not a homegrown internet giant such as Alibaba or Tencent, but California-based Apple.
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New York Times, 9to5Mac, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
As Twitter's problems mount, Elon Musk is on pace to tweet over 750 times in November, or more than 25 times a day, up from around 13 per day in April — The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify his actions. — Ryan Mac, who is based in Los Angeles … | Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Some NFT marketplaces stop honoring NFT royalties, usually a 5%-10% fee set by the creator and paid by sellers on secondary market sales, rocking the community — Creators sound the alarm after the marketplace reveals its plans, which include blacklisting rivals and potentially optional royalties.
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Web3 for the Culture, Pandaily, and Cryptopolitan
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Activision Blizzard reports Q3 net bookings down 3% YoY to $1.83B vs. $1.7B est., and MAUs down 6% YoY to 368M; Modern Warfare II made $1B+ in its first 10 days — Activision Blizzard reported that its bookings for the third quarter ended September 30 fell 3% to $1.83 billion compared to a year ago.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reports Q2 bookings up 53% YoY to $1.5B, below $1.55B estimates, and revises FY 2023 bookings down to $5.5B; stock drops 17%+ — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. reduced its annual forecast for net bookings in the wake of an industrywide spending slowdown, particularly in mobile gaming.
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Video Games Chronicle, Business Wire, Gameranx, Game Rant, GamesIndustry.biz, and PC Gamer
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Signal launches its Stories feature out of beta on Android and iOS, letting users share Stories that expire after 24 hours — End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a new Stories feature to all users on Android and iOS, the company announced on Monday.
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Signal Blog, Engadget, MUO, and SamMobile
Tweets: @signalapp, @signalapp, @navalang, @chronotope, @kaepora, @popey, @mer__edith, @tante, @cubicleapril, @tehabe, and @caseyho
| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
Intel, Samsung, TSMC, and 62 other companies form the Semiconductor Climate Consortium to cut greenhouse gas emissions “throughout the electronics value chain” — At this week's COP27 climate conference in Egypt, attendees will have a new group to contend with … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
An interview with YouTube Shorts Director of Product Management Todd Sherman on UI challenges as YouTube rolls out the TikTok competitor to its TV apps — YouTube Shorts is working. That much Todd Sherman knows for sure. Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube's endless-scrolling …
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