|
February 13, 2023, 1:15 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Wall Street Journal: |
Binance says the NYDFS ordered Paxos to stop issuing more of its BUSD stablecoin, which has 6.2M holders; Paxos will continue redemptions and cut Binance ties — Firm will continue to manage redemptions of the product — New York regulators directed a crypto company to stop issuing …
More:
Paxos, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, The Verge, CoinJournal, Gizmodo, The Block, MarketWatch, Unchained, Crowdfund Insider, CoinGape, Tech Startups, Blockworks, CoinDesk, CNBC, Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, Watcher Guru, Ethereum World News, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, The Block, Reuters, Bitcoin News, Cryptopolitan, CryptoPotato, Micky, and Forkast
Tweets: @cz_binance, @cz_binance, @cz_binance, @cz_binance, @whale_alert, @cz_binance, @gaborgurbacs, @asvanevik, @paxosglobal, @fintechfrank, @cwpaulm, @tree_of_alpha, @eleanorterrett, @nic__carter, @nic__carter, @mikeburgersburg, @ashcryptoreal, @frances_coppola, @matthew_d_green, @cz_binance, @whale_alert, @cz_binance, @stackersatoshi, @noelleinmadrid, @mhonkasalo, @jamyies, @wublockchain, @chainlinkgod, @shvandrew, @cryptoworldjosh, @defiignas, @schuldensuehner, @dfauchier, @mdudas, @clara_medalie, @wublockchain, @paxosglobal, @adamscochran, @kaikodata, @ctolarsson, @dfauchier, @chainlinkgod, @adamscochran, @lawmaster, @tier10k, @tranjanofficial, @cz_binance, @tree_of_alpha, @coinmamba, @silvermanjacob, @emilyjnicolle, @mdudas, @3pointo_cap, @peckshieldalert, @ashcryptoreal, @nachotrades, @paxosglobal, @peckshieldalert, @0xfoobar, @du09btc, @ninjascalp, @arturo_p_a, @statelayer, @jamyies, @tree_of_alpha, @tier10k, @du09btc, @loopifyyy, @adamscochran, @noelleinmadrid, @austin_federa, @bitfinexed, @fintechfrank, @muyaoshen, @yueqi_yang, @chadcaff, @vegetacrypto1, @binance, @emilyjnicolle, @noelleinmadrid, @satoshiflipper, @news_of_alpha, @emilyjnicolle, @emilyjnicolle, @criptopaul, @paxosglobal, and @tree_of_alpha
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the SEC told Paxos the agency plans to sue the crypto firm, alleging the Paxos-issued and listed Binance USD stablecoin is an unregistered security — The agency has been intensifying its enforcement of major crypto players — The Securities and Exchange Commission …
More:
Protos, Decrypt, The Information, CoinGape, NewsBTC, Blockchain News …, Cointelegraph, Trustnodes, Fortune, Bitcoinist.com, The Block, ZyCrypto, CoinDesk, Finbold, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, Inside Bitcoins, CryptoPotato, Crypto is Macro Now, crypto.news, CoinJournal, DL News, CoinGeek, Coinspeaker, Coinpedia Fintech News, Watcher Guru, Blockworks, Bitcoin News, Forkast, and CryptoSlate
Mastodon: @davidgerard@circumstances.run. Tweets: @wsjmarkets, @milesdeutscher, @cz_binance, @thulynnn, @fintechfrank, @johnreedstark, @twobitidiot, @rohangrey, @ramahluwalia, @eleanorterrett, @lex_node, @adamscochran, @ryansadams, @milesdeutscher, @wublockchain, @smtuffy, @carnage4life, @it_airmass, @byzgeneral, @adam3us, @illneil, @mdudas, @adam3us, @twobitidiot, @bambroughkevin, @cryptodefilord, @starokg, @safetyth1rd, @jesse_hynes, @twobitidiot, @peckshieldalert, @jebus911, @pt, and @northrocklp
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Twilio plans to cut around 17% of its workforce, or roughly 1,500 jobs, after laying off 11% in September 2022 and will form two units to aide efficiency — - Twilio on Monday announced plans to cut about 1,500 employees, or around 17% of its workforce, according to a blog post shared on the company's website.| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A study finds 11 data brokers selling data on Americans' mental health information, including on antidepressants and insomnia, likely acquired from app makers — Capitalizing on the pandemic explosion in telehealth and therapy apps that collect details of your mental health needs …
More:
Tech Policy, Gizmodo, and NBC News
| Shenghao Bai / Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: the blended bill of materials for the iPhone 14 Pro Max 128GB is $464 total, up 3.7% on the 13 Pro Max, with 22% down to Apple's A16 and other chips — - The blended bill of materials (BoM) cost for the iPhone 14 Pro Max with 128GB Nand flash is about $464, a 3.7% increase from that of the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
More:
9to5Mac, Android Authority, TechSpot, AppleInsider, Appuals.com, Apple Must, Gizchina, BGR, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, and GSMArena.com
| Financial Times: |
A look at Andy Jassy's challenges running Amazon, down by $1T in market cap since he took over: cutting costs, layoffs, boosting Prime subscribers, and more — Investors joining Amazon's earning call earlier this month were greeted with a surprise guest: the group's chief executive, Andy Jassy.| Max Tani / Semafor: |
A look back at Spotify betting hundreds of millions of dollars on podcasts, which CFO Paul Vogel says were a “big drag on our business in 2022” — By 2021, Spotify had paid to sign some of the biggest names in podcasting, and it was ready to start squeezing its competitors.| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Bakkt plans to shut down its consumer crypto app on March 16, two years after debuting Bakkt App with partners including Starbucks, Best Buy, and Choice Hotels — Users will be able to manage their assets over the web after March 16. — Digital asset platform Bakkt (BKKT) …
More:
Bakkt, PYMNTS.com, Blockworks, The Block, Finextra, Bitcoin News, Cryptonews, and CoinJournal
| Ed Garsten / Forbes: |
Ouster and Velodyne announce the “completion of their merger of equals”, further consolidating the lidar industry, which is key to Level 4 autonomous vehicles — Lidar companies Ouster and Velodyne announced they have combined in a “merger of equals,” further evidence of a consolidation in the high-tech sensor industry.| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
Sex educators, adult stars, and sex workers complain about Instagram, saying Meta's moderation has gotten more punitive and less predictable since SESTA-FOSTA — Cherie DeVille lives in perpetual fear of losing her 3.7 million Instagram followers. — DeVille is a well-known porn star who also has an OnlyFans account.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Marketplace Pulse: Amazon's average cut of each sale passed 50% for the first time, reaching 51.8% in 2022, vs. 48% in 2021, 40% in 2017, and 35.2% in 2016 — Grappling with slowing sales growth and rising costs, Amazon.com Inc. is squeezing more money from the nearly 2 million small businesses …
Tweets: @tomgara, @carnage4life, and @astaniscia86
| Financial Times: |
US-based fintech FIS says it will spin off Worldpay, which it acquired for ~$43B in July 2019; FIS stock has dropped around 45% since the acquisition — Planned split calls time on merchant solutions arm 4 years after being acquired in $43bn deal — US-based financial technology group FIS …
More:
PYMNTS.com, Payments Dive, Bloomberg, and Finextra
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
From MCP to billing: Updates that accelerate hiring — TL;DRConnect your favorite AI tools to Zoho Recruit with Zoho Recruit MCP.Catch up on conversations faster with Zia email summaries.Review candidate context instantly …
From MCP to billing: Updates that accelerate hiring — TL;DRConnect your favorite AI tools to Zoho Recruit with Zoho Recruit MCP.Catch up on conversations faster with Zia email summaries.Review candidate context instantly …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Training Data:
Inside Zipline's Autonomous System: 140M Miles, Zero Incidents
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Invest Like the Best:
Jeremy Giffon - The Billion Dollar PDF
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Big Technology Podcast:
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple's Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Blitzy's Brian Elliott: Cursor And Claude Code Are Looking At Your Enterprise Code 'Through A Straw'
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:15 PM ET, February 13, 2023.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Financial Times:Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
More:
OnMSFT.com, Forbes, MSPoweruser, Yaro on Web3 …, and Slashdot
Tweets: @noahsussman, @harrymccracken, and @joernchen
| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
More:
New York Times. Tweets: @carnage4life, @btshapir, @eric_seufert, @eric_seufert, @samueljscott, @deaneckles, @sandeepramesh, @kantrowitz, @swodinsky, @pkafka, @nytimesbusiness, @deaneckles, @stevielark, @matthewherper, @annehummert, @chrisyandle, @deaneckles, @wexler, @pevans_c, @logorific2, @brianstelter, and @mattgreenfield