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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the company signed a non-binding LOI to fully acquire FTX.com and help cover its liquidity crunch, pending due diligence — This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire https://t.co/BGtFlCmLXB and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days.
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
FTX's FTT token drops below $7, down ~70% in the past 24 hours, as crypto investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda Research — The FTT price has declined nearly 14% over the past 24 hours, with Solana's SOL and Serum's SRM taking losses along with bigger cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether.
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| Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
In a message to staff, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says withdrawals on FTX.com are “effectively paused” after FTX saw $6B in net withdrawals in 72 hours — Crypto exchange FTX saw around $6 billion of withdrawals in the 72 hours before Tuesday morning, according to a message …
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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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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission opens an in-depth investigation into Microsoft's proposed $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets a March 23 decision deadline — Microsoft Corp.'s proposed $69 billion takeover of games developer Activision Blizzard Inc. faces an in-depth European Union probe …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: turnover has hindered Apple's search for a new head of product design, leaving few obvious candidates for a department still in Jony Ive's shadow — Turnover at Apple Inc. has hindered efforts to replace the head of product design, leaving a gaping hole at the helm of a prominent team that's …
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: Apple's corporate diplomacy in Beijing helped it evade crackdowns and kept its profits above China's tech giants but exposes it to supply chain shocks — 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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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo reports Q2 operating profit of ~$809M, up from ~$685M YoY, thanks to a weakened yen, and cuts its fiscal year Switch sales forecast by 10% to 19M — Nintendo Co. cut its fiscal-year forecast for Switch console sales by 10% to 19 million after reporting earnings in line with expectations.
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| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
As Twitter's problems mount, Elon Musk is tweeting 25+ times per day in November, up from ~13 times per day in April 2022 — 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, writes about accountability in the technology industry.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Meta's Oversight Board after two years and nearly 2M appeals: $150M in funding through 2025, 28 rulings, and 119 recommendations, as it wins over some critics — Mark Zuckerberg set up the panel to investigate how his company handles controversial posts. Now its members want to transform how social platforms work.
Tweets: @stevenlevy and @codycombsnews
| Jon Keegan / The Markup: |
A look at data brokers selling campaigns “comprehensive” profiles on potential voters, including phone geolocation data gleaned from real-time ad auctions — Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google and Renault announce plans to build a “software-defined vehicle” on Android Automotive; Renault picks Google Cloud as its “preferred cloud provider” — This “software-defined vehicle” will be built on Google's Android Automotive operating system and send data …
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| 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 …
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
An investigation shows TrustCor Systems, used by Chrome, Safari, and Firefox as a root certificate authority, has ties to US intelligence and law enforcement — TrustCor Systems vouches for the legitimacy of websites. But its physical address is a UPS Store in Toronto.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
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