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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Analysis: Apple's Search Ads now account for 58% of iPhone app downloads resulting from an ad click; Apple to earn $5B from its ads business this fiscal year — iPhone maker's share of mobile app advertising market has tripled in six months — Apple's advertising business has more than tripled …
Tweets: @patrickmcgee_, @psantloki, @saracamden, @patrickmcgee_, and @neiltwitz
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Valve quietly updates Steam's rules to ban games “built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs” — Your move, Epic Games Store — Games that use blockchain technology or let users exchange NFTs or cryptocurrencies won't be allowed on Steam …
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| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Some doctors in the US and other countries say TikTok videos about Tourette syndrome may be contributing to a rise in cases of teen girls with physical tics — When teens started turning up in doctors' offices with sudden, severe physical tics, specialists suspected social media …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Internal document: Netflix estimates Squid Game will create almost $900M in value for the company; 87M viewers have finished the series in the first 23 days — More than 130 million people have watched the Korean show — Netflix estimates that its latest megahit, “Squid Game,” … | New York Times: |
Internal docs: Instagram spent the majority of its global annual marketing budget since 2018 targeting teenagers, as it worries about losing its user “pipeline” — The app, hailed as Facebook's growth engine, has privately wrestled with retaining and engaging teenagers, according to internal documents.
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at YouTube's in-house creator partnerships team, which has over 1,000 employees across 45 countries offering advice and guidance to about 12,000 creators — The site has spent more than a decade building an in-house agency for digital superstars, drawing ad sales, sponsorships and other revenue| Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: median CEO pay of US tech startups that went public in 2020 was $21.9M; seven of the 10 best-paid CEOs of US public companies were from such startups — Startup creators once tended to take little or no remuneration as CEOs. Now, some are getting giant stock awards …
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Convex, which provides software for the commercial services industry, raises a $39M Series B, bringing its total raised to $60M — Convex, a San Francisco, CA-based software platform focused on digitizing the commercial services industry, raised $39m in Series B financing.| Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: |
A look at Raya, a secretive subscription-based social network with a rigorous user selection process and a rigid code of silence for accepted members — The app has created a space free of the problems that plague the rest of the Web, but only by leaving almost everybody out.
Tweets: @michaelluo, @newyorker, @newyorker, @kari_paul, @dlippman, @chaykak, @simonowens, @markwby, @chaykak, @hels, @samuelaadams, and @evelyndouek
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Jack Dorsey says Square is considering building an open source Bitcoin miner, using custom silicon, for individuals and businesses — Square Inc (SQ.N) Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said on Friday the fintech firm is looking to build a bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon …
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Bitcoin News, PCMag, The Block, Cointelegraph, The Independent, CNBC, Bloomberg, Decrypt, and Blockworks
Tweets: @jack and @novogratz
| Noah Smith / Washington Post: |
A look at US Cyber Games, jointly founded in April by the US government, academia, and the private sector to find and train candidates for cybersecurity careers — As the United States seeks to shore up its defenses against cyberattacks, the government is seeking to harness the skills …
Tweets: @jamrootz58 and @vildehaya
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
A joint advisory by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and EPA reveals three more ransomware attacks on water treatment plants this year in Nevada, Maine, and California — Ransomware gangs have silently hit three US water and wastewater treatment facilities this year, in 2021, the US government …
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