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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
NYC mayor-elect Eric Adams says he plans to take his first three paychecks in bitcoin and the city is going to be the “center of the cryptocurrency industry” — - New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams plans to take his first three paychecks in bitcoin.
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Google says it will let Android app developers use alternative billing systems in the Google Play store in South Korea, complying with a new law — Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it will add the option for developers to offer alternative billing systems on its Android app store in South Korea …
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber reports its first-ever adjusted profit at $8M but net loss grew to $2.42B, from $1.09B YoY, due to a $2B loss from equity investments, particularly in Didi — The ride-hailing company recorded its first-ever adjusted profit last quarter — Uber Technologies Inc. achieved …
Tweets: @gregbensinger
| AnandTech: |
Review of Intel's ~$650 flagship i9-12900K Alder Lake CPU, which performs close to AMD's 5950X and 5900X depending on workloads, while adding DDR5 support — Today marks the official retail availability of Intel's 12th Generation Core processors, starting with the overclockable versions this side of the New Year, and the rest in 2022.| Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T and Verizon postpone the December 5 launch of C-band 5G spectrum to address the FAA's concerns of potential interference with cockpit safety systems — Wireless carriers postpone planned Dec. 5 launch of new spectrum to address concerns about potential interference with cockpit safety systems
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo president says he doesn't “see a sign of the component shortages recovering” as the company cuts Switch sales target for FY 2021 from 25.5M to 24M — - Company upgrades operating profit outlook citing FX rates — Sustaining sales momentum will depend heavily on OLED model
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| Bloomberg: |
HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, files for a US IPO; source say it could seek to raise $1B+ and is aiming for a $10B+ valuation — Software provider HashiCorp Inc. filed to go public in the U.S. via an initial public offering. — The San Francisco-based company … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft warns Windows 11 users that features, including the Snipping Tool, touch keyboard, and emoji panel, aren't loading due to an expired certificate — Snipping Tool, the emoji picker, and other parts of Windows 11 are breaking — Microsoft has started warning Windows 11 users …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Mythical Games, which is developing a game platform with “playable NFTs”, raises $150M led by a16z at a $1.25B valuation, four months after raising $75M — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Game studio Faraway raises a $21M Series A led by Lightspeed and FTX, plans to use the Solana blockchain in its most popular title Mini Royale — FTX and Lightspeed Venture Partners have led a $21 million Series A funding round for gaming studio Faraway. — Faraway said in a press release Thursday … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta announces new tools for Facebook Group admins, including paid subgroups, the ability to create community fundraisers and shops, and more — At its Facebook Communities Summit today, the social networking giant announced a series of updates and new tools for managing Facebook Groups …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Square reports Q3 revenue of $3.84B, up 11% YoY but missing $4.39B estimates, bitcoin revenue of $1.81B, up 11% YoY, and gross payment volume of $1.13B, up 43% — Square's revenue from Bitcoin grew at a more modest rate of 11%, versus the 200% appreciation in Q2.| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
US-based game publisher Devolver Digital raises around $261M in a London IPO, at a valuation of about $950M — Fall Guys publisher is biggest US firm to trade on AIM, Sony Interactive Entertainment makes 5% investment in Devolver — Devolver Digital has begun trading on AIM …
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Tweets: @shinobi602, @toadsanime, @james_batchelor, @gibiz, and @jasonschreier
| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
Alphabet launches Isomorphic Laboratories, a company that uses AI for drug discovery; DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will also serve as Isomorphic CEO — It builds on DeepMind's work on protein folding — A new Alphabet company will use artificial intelligence methods for drug discovery, Google's parent company announced Thursday.
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Engadget, New York Times, CNET, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Financial Times. Tweets: @slpng_giants
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Pinterest reports Q3 revenue of $633M, up 43% and beating estimates of $630.9M, and 444M global MAUs, up 1% YoY and below estimates of 460M; stock up 6%+ — - Pinterest beat on earnings and revenue for the third quarter — The company reported a decline in monthly active users.| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Internal documents shed light on Facebook's “holdout” experiments, where it withholds certain protections from a subset of users to see how they will react — In her testimony before Congress last month, whistleblower Frances Haugen told lawmakers Facebook has conducted experiments …
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
PitchBook: female-founded startups raised a record $40.4B across 2,661 VC deals in the first three quarters of 2021 with a $59 billion all-time high in exits — The pandemic took a toll on female founders in 2020: Funding to their companies fell 3% even in a bullish startup climate that saw overall venture funding rise by 16%.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram brings back support for Twitter Card previews after removing the feature in 2012 — Instagram is bringing back support for Twitter Card previews starting today. Now when users share an Instagram link on Twitter, a preview of the post will be shown in the tweet.
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Pocketnow, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Overspill, Livemint, TechRadar, Android Police, iMore, Digital Trends, and Observer
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A look at Match Group's plans for Tinder and Explore, including an expansion of virtual goods that incentivize engagement and a metaverse-like dating platform — Tinder has already undergone a big revamp with its recent launch of “Explore,” a new section inside the app that will enable …
Tweets: @ballmatthew, @drewharwell, @tmfotter, and @katie_roof
| Kolawole Samuel Adebayo / VentureBeat: |
Treasure Data, which offers an enterprise customer data platform, raises $234M led by SoftBank — Mountain View-based enterprise customer data platform (CDP) Treasure Data has just received a $234 million funding in what the company calls the largest-ever single round for a CDP.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources say Masayoshi Son's profit-sharing plan for Vision Fund employees is contributing to a stream of defections, because it is based primarily on seniority — Ever since billionaire investor Masayoshi Son set up the giant Vision Fund in 2017 to provide backing for technology startups …
Tweets: @pelstrom and @gilliantan
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
FCC approves Boeing's application to deploy and operate satellites providing broadband internet to US consumers and business; application was filed in 2017 — According to the FCC, Boeing plans on using the satellite internet system to supply broadband to residential, commercial, and government customers.
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| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Google strikes a cloud deal with CME and invests $1B in the futures exchange — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has invested $1 billion in futures-exchange giant CME Group Inc. and struck a deal to move the company's core trading systems to the cloud. — Under the deal, the technology giant's Google Cloud unit …
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