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Arm closes up 24.69% to $63.59 in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at $65.24B, after Arm priced shares at the upper end of its expected $47 to $51 range — - Arm Holdings has started trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker “ARM.” — The chip design company is valued at a steep premium relative … | Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: |
MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines — Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company
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Filing: Caesars confirms the casino operator was hacked via a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor; sources: Caesars paid a ~$15M ransom — Caesars is second major casino operator hit by hackers in recent weeks — paid roughly half of a $30 million ransom …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Unity cancels a town hall and closes two offices after receiving what the company says was a credible death threat, following its controversial install fee news — Management announced a controversial pricing decision two days ago — Unity Technologies Inc. canceled a planned town hall …
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| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
Sources: Unity offered a 100% Runtime Fee waiver to studios using its LevelPlay mediation platform and 80% to 100% waivers to developers switching from AppLovin — Unity is quietly offering developers a Runtime Fee waiver if they switch to its LevelPlay mediation platform, we're told.
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At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle” — Hi all, it's Tom Giles in San Francisco and Davey Alba in Washington.
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| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to offer Chromebook software updates for up to 10 years, starting in 2024, so no current device expires within the next two years, to help schools — With the change, no existing Chromebook will have to expire within the next two years — Google is working to push …
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| Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft and Oracle expand their cloud partnership with Oracle Database@Azure, letting customers run Oracle workloads natively in Azure data centers — The new level of collaboration reflects how technology and customer demand have fostered more cooperation among software companies| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people for sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023 — - New hires will be split among sales, engineering, data cloud — Many hires will be boomerang employees, CEO Benioff says
More: Reuters and MarketWatch
| Bloomberg: |
The US Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national security issues raised by Elon Musk's denial to extend Starlink to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russia — The Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national-security issues raised by Elon Musk's decision not to extend … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
HP unveils the $5,000+ Spectre Fold, an OLED foldable PC that can be used as a 17-inch tablet, a 17-inch laptop, or a 12.3-inch laptop and weighs less than 3lbs — Over the past few years, companies across the PC space have been engaged in a slow, but steady race to build a foldable laptop that people might actually want to buy.| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic releases ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress, letting fediverse users follow WordPress blogs on apps like Mastodon and receive replies as blog comments — In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature — Discussions are at an early stage and include possible subscription fee, say people familiar with the matter| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users' location for commercial gain even after they opted out — Google will pay California $93 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices.
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| Bloomberg: |
How Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son, Sam, and provided a halo effect for FTX before its implosion — Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son and provided a halo effect for his company.
More: New York Times, New York Post, Bitcoinist.com, and Decrypt
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
DoorDash plans to transfer its listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq and begin trading on September 27, 2023, under the same symbol DASH — - DoorDash will transfer its listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq, the food delivery company announced Thursday.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta expands Horizon Worlds, previously exclusive to its VR headsets, to the web and Android in early access, and rolling out to iOS “in the coming weeks” — Meta is finally bringing Horizon Worlds out of virtual reality. The 3D social platform has previously been exclusive to its VR headsets …
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