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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Cameron Winklevoss demands that DCG's board remove CEO Barry Silbert and alleges he and Genesis lied publicly, after his January 8 resolution deadline passed — Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Coinbase plans to cut ~950 jobs, or ~20% of its workforce, aiming to reduce its operating expenses by 25% QoQ in Q1 2023, after laying off 18% in June 2022 — - Coinbase is cutting a fifth of its workforce following an 18% staff reduction in June. — CEO Brian Armstrong pointed …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft ditched a dual-screen design for the Surface Duo 3, opting for an internal foldable screen, an external cover display, and a 180-degree hinge — Microsoft's next foldable phone will have an internal foldable display. — What you need to know
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung announces it will hold its next Galaxy Unpacked event in-person, in San Francisco on February 1 at 10am PT, where it's expected to unveil the Galaxy S23 — Mark your calendar: Samsung is hosting its next Galaxy Unpacked on February 1st. The company is officially confirming a date …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple SVP of Services Eddy Cue says App Store developers have made $320B+ since 2008 and lists 900M paid subscriptions, 200+ Arcade games, 70B Shazams, and more — Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services, has penned an open letter celebrating what he calls a “groundbreaking year for entertainment.”
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Sources: Microsoft is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $29B valuation, taking 75% of OpenAI's profits until the investment is recouped and then owning 49% — Microsoft has been in talks to invest $10 billion into the owner of ChatGPT, the wildly popular app that has thrilled casual users …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
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| Javier Paz / Forbes: |
A breakdown of Binance's known assets, according to Nansen, Glassnode, Defillama, and others, estimates the exchange has ~$50B left, down 24% from November 2022 — The outflow of cash from Binance is worse than the CEO Changpeng Zhao indicated last month, and it's become considerably more severe since then, a Forbes analysis shows.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon plans to open Buy with Prime to all US merchants on January 31, letting them offer Prime benefits like free shipping and returns on their own apps — Amazon announced this morning it's expanding its Buy with Prime service to U.S.-based merchants by the end of the month.
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Tweets: @ldignan, @astaniscia86, @_inpractise, @rihardjarc, @modestproposal1, @modestproposal1, and @juokaz
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Developers flood Apple's App Store and Google Play with apps listing “ChatGPT” in titles and descriptions; OpenAI doesn't offer a public ChatGPT API or an app — ChatGPT is the hottest topic of discussion in the tech industry. OpenAI's chatbot that answers questions …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Sources: Parler's parent company laid off most of its staff and chief executives over the last few weeks, leaving the company with approximately 20 employees — Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff … | Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to further limit ad targeting users under 18 in February 2023, including removing the options to target teens based on gender and in-app activity — Meta is making some changes to how its apps handle advertising and young users. Under the new rules, advertisers on Instagram …
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| Don Clark / New York Times: |
A look at Intel's struggles with launching Sapphire Rapids, originally slated for mid-2022, which Intel says has led to changes in product design and testing — The company grappled with missteps for years while developing a microprocessor code-named Sapphire Rapids. It comes out on Tuesday.| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Nothing Phone (1) rolls out in the US via a $299 “beta membership” offered through June 2023, but the company says the phone “may not work with all US carriers” — After a previous teaser, the Nothing Phone (1) is now officially on its way to the United States … | Wade Tyler Millward / CRN: |
Sources: Cloud Software Group, the parent company of Citrix and Tibco, begins widespread layoffs impacting thousands of employees — 'It's a sad day for a company that pioneered the VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) market. It's a terrible day, with a lot of good Citrix employees …
Tweets: @jordannovet and @gabeknuth
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Scale AI, which labels data for ML algorithms and was valued at $7.3B in April 2021, lays off 20% of its staff; the startup had ~450 employees in February 2022 — Scale AI, the San Francisco-based company that uses software and people to label image, text, voice and video data …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oxbotica, an Oxford-based autonomous vehicle software developer for enterprise customers, raised a $140M Series C, bringing its total funding to $225M — Activity in the self-driving car industry, frenetic for years, has somewhat stalled in more recent times; but a handful of the most promising companies …
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| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com plans to delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario's regulator and will stop facilitating transaction associated with USDT by the end of January — The exchange said it will no longer facilitate transactions associated with the stablecoin at the end of the month.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh, who has not been accused of wrongdoing, met with US federal prosecutors last week to seek a cooperation deal — Former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh met with federal prosecutors in a bid to become the third member of Sam Bankman-Fried's inner circle …
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Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin News, Metaverse Post, CryptoPotato, Ethereum World News, New York Post, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @avabmorrison, @unusual_whales, @smtuffy, and @poordart
| Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
A US bankruptcy judge approves Voyager's request to sell its crypto platform to Binance.US for $20M, overruling objections by federal regulators and some states — Voyager Digital Ltd. won court approval to sell its crypto platform to Binance.US for $20 million as part of Voyager's plan to liquidate in bankruptcy.| Financial Times: |
Meta contractor Sama plans to cut ~200 staff and close its east African content moderation hub in March 2023; Meta plans to keep 1,500 Sama staff to label data — Staff at Nairobi office were moderating graphic and harmful material — Meta's east African content moderation hub is shutting …
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