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Adobe and Figma end their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, over “no clear path” to EU and UK antitrust approval; Adobe owes Figma a $1B termination fee — Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday shelved its $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma …
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
UK and EU regulators blocking Adobe's Figma acquisition changes the liquidity environment for startup founders and VCs, focusing dollars on likely IPO winners — The writing has been on the wall for sometime — the regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have been hemming and hawing …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to halt Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week, to “preemptively” comply with an ITC patent ruling under US review until December 25 — In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple has announced that it will soon halt sales of its flagship Apple Watch models in the United States.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into X, focusing on “illegal content and disinformation”, ad transparency, “deceptive design”, and data access — X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, may have broken the European Union's tough new Digital Service Act rules …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Flipboard plans to replace its entire social back end with ActivityPub and by April 2024 let any Flipboard user follow any fediverse account from within its app — Flipboard is taking its biggest step yet into the fediverse. The company announced on Monday that it is beginning to switch …
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| Andrew Solender / Axios: |
Coinbase, a16z, the Winklevoss twins, and others poured $78M into crypto super PACs in Q4 2023, an immense raise in three months, ahead of the 2024 US elections — Cryptocurrency industry leaders have poured $78 million into super PACs aimed at bolstering and growing the ranks …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper says hackers stole the personal data of 14.6M+ customers, like dates of birth, phone numbers, SSNs, and bank account numbers — Hackers stole the sensitive personal information of more than 14.6 million Mr. Cooper customers, the mortgage and loan giant has confirmed.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese chip design companies are increasingly using Malaysian companies to assemble a portion of their high-end GPUs; the move does not break US rules — A growing number of Chinese semiconductor design companies are tapping Malaysian firms to assemble a portion of their high-end chips …
More: Huawei Central, Tech in Asia, and DigiTimes
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Streaming TV appears to have entered its franchise era; Netflix plans spinoffs of the Addams Family, Peaky Blinders, and action movie Extraction, among others — Sequels and prequels have already taken over the movie business. Now they're coming for TV. — Good afternoon from Los Angeles …
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| The Guardian: |
Internal docs: TikTok gave a “protected list” to some moderators to prevent action being taken against accounts related to heavy advertisers, like Amazon — Exclusive: Internal communications suggest video platform working to protect its lucrative relationship with e-commerce firm| Erin Woo / The Information: |
After Dave Willner's July exit from OpenAI as the head of the trust and safety team, OpenAI has broken up the team, whose vetting process some devs called slow — OpenAI has overhauled how it handles the task of rooting out disinformation and offensive content from ChatGPT and its other products … | Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Data analytics company Alteryx says it has agreed to be acquired by PE firms Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners, in a deal valued at $4.4B including debt — Alteryx (AYX.N) said on Monday it has agreed to be acquired by private-equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners …
More: MarketWatch, PR Newswire, Constellation Research, and socaltech.com
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Inside Amazon's Mission Operations Center during Project Kuiper's first launch, part of a its $10B+ project to launch 3,000+ satellites and challenge Starlink — Project Kuiper could transform Amazon into a telecommunications giant, but first the company needs to loft more than 3,000 satellites into orbit.
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