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CoinDesk retains investment bankers at Lazard to help the outlet explore options including a partial or full sale after “numerous” indications of interest — Company has ‘received numerous inbound indications of interest,’ CEO Kevin Worth says — CoinDesk Inc. …
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Sources: Genesis creditors are negotiating a bankruptcy plan with the firm and weighing a one to two-year forbearance period in exchange for cash and DCG equity — - Genesis creditors are negotiating the terms of a possible Chapter 11 filing, according to sources close to the matter.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on an iPad-based smart display, with smart home controls, video, and FaceTime, and a new Apple TV with a faster processor for H1 2024 — Apple Inc. is working on a slate of devices aimed at challenging Amazon.com Inc. and Google in the smart-home market …
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Amazon plans to close AmazonSmile, launched in 2013 to let customers donate 0.5% of eligible items' purchase prices to a charity, on February 20, 2023 — Amazon will be closing its charity program, AmazonSmile, in the coming weeks in order to “focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact.”
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The US Treasury's FinCEN unit labels crypto exchange Bitzlato as a “money laundering concern” related to Russian illicit finance; French police seize Bitzlato — The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on Wednesday said it has identified virtual …
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Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund sold most of its crypto portfolio by the end of March 2022, before the crypto market crash, generating ~$1.8B in returns — Billionaire was early mainstream investor in the digital currency but VC fund no longer has significant exposure
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| James Eyers / Australian Financial Review: |
National Australia Bank creates the AUDN stablecoin, the second major Australian bank after ANZ's A$DC, letting customers settle transactions on the blockchain — National Australia Bank has become the second of the major banks to create a stablecoin, called the AUDN, to allow its business customers …
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Apple announces a second-generation HomePod with a similar design to the original from 2018, Matter support, S7 chip, and more, shipping on February 3 for $299 — It will be sold alongside the HomePod Mini, the smaller version of the speaker introduced in 2020, and features support …
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| Alexandra Wexler / Wall Street Journal: |
FTX posed as a haven from tumbling currencies and inflation in Africa, where the company recruited users via glitzy events, $5 sign-up bonuses, and giveaways — Cryptocurrency exchange's ambassadors recruited new customers through glitzy events, $5 sign-up bonuses and giveaways
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| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Analysis: Series B valuations fell 50% from a $250M median in Q1 2022 to a $125M median in Q4 2022; Q4 2022's VC activity by volume resembled that of Q2 2020 — Series B valuations were cut in half from the first quarter of 2022 to the last — Early-stage startups finally got the message …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mailchimp says a hacker accessed data on 133 accounts via a staff social engineering attack, first detected on January 11, its second breach in six months — Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers' data was exposed.
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Wikimedia launches an updated Wikipedia design, including improved search and accessibility, a refreshed table of contents, and easier language switching — Wikipedia, one of the world's top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade.
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Similarweb: Twitter referral traffic to 12 major news outlets fell 12% on average from November 2022 to December 2022; only traffic to NY Post and Fox News grew — Under the leadership of Elon Musk, Twitter's role as a traffic referral source to publishers' sites is largely declining.
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Nieman Lab. Tweets: @mattmcgee, @martyswant, @mehdirhasan, @timgatt, @dimensionmedia, @anthony, @mattnavarra, @martyswant, and @digiday
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Twitter's Q4 2022 revenue fell ~35% YoY to $1.025B, 72% of its Q4 goal; the company hopes to generate $732M in Q1 2023, which would be down 39% YoY — Twitter's fourth quarter revenue fell about 35% year over year to $1.025 billion, a top ad executive revealed at a staff meeting Wednesday … | Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Andrew Bosworth talks about Meta's decision to discontinue Portal and how the company nearly made a deal to license Portal's tech and platform to Amazon in 2020 — Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth told BuzzFeed News how a deal to keep the Portal software going almost happened.| Jennifer Gollan / ProPublica: |
An analysis of 11 online pharmacies selling abortion pills: at least nine use third-party trackers such as Google Analytics to collect and share sensitive data — Some sites selling abortion pills use technology that shares information with third parties like Google.
Tweets: @robinmarty, @jennifergollan, @cakitchener, @propublica, @joshchin, @williamcson, @privacydigest, and @katienotopoulos
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity firm Sophos lays off 10% of its global workforce and sources say ~450 employees were let go; Thoma Bravo acquired Sophos for $3.9B in March 2020 — Sophos is laying off about 10% of its global workforce, TechCrunch has learned. Sophos confirmed the layoffs in an email to TechCrunch.
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