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Sources: Nvidia is planning to abandon its Arm acquisition, as regulators scrutinize the deal; source says SoftBank is preparing an IPO for Arm — Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress in winning approval …
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Google shutters FLoC, its controversial replacement for cookies, and details Topics, which organizes browsing into 300+ topics — FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), Google's controversial project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising by instead grouping users into groups of users with comparable interests, is dead.
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Twitter code shows it is developing Flock, which lets users create tweets for up to 150 close friends, after teasing the feature in July 2021 — Twitter is developing a feature called Flock that will allow users to curate a list of people to send certain tweets out to, reminiscent of Instagram's Close Friends feature.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
In a YouTube creator update, Susan Wojcicki defends hiding dislikes, discusses adding NFT support, says creators making >$10K/year increased 40% YoY, and more — YouTube is touting the explosive popularity of its TikTok-style short-form Shorts video feature — and says it's going to test …
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| Financial Times: |
As Microsoft acquires Activision, a look at the state of the gaming industry, which generated $180B in 2021 revenue, double that of the movie industry — Microsoft's audacious $75bn move on games publisher Activision Blizzard has detonated a bomb under the games industry.
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Protocol. Tweets: @stephenkb, @7innovator, @scott_tobias, @jack_milroy, @a_reader_ft, @ryandelucavr, and @pickpricklypear
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Scratchpad, a Salesforce-based productivity workspace, raises a $33M Series B, following a $13M Series A in February 2021 — Scratchpad, a company that has built a modern productivity workspace on top of Salesforce, has raised $33 million in a series B round of funding.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta unveils AI Research SuperCluster, a supercomputer for ML training, claiming it will have 16K GPUs and be the world's fastest upon completion in mid-2022 — Designed to train the next-generation of machine learning systems — Social media conglomerate Meta is the latest tech company to build an …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
A look at Orange DAO, a crypto collective made up of 1,000+ YC founders that has closed an initial fund and invested in ~30 Web3 startups — A crypto collective backing web3 startups is seeking new members. The only condition for joining? Applicants must be alumni of the Y Combinator accelerator.
Tweets: @maxwellstrachan, @onchainmonkey, @thekenyeung, and @benhuh
| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
John Lennon's son Julian plans to auction off memorabilia as NFTs, including handwritten notes from Hey Jude; Lennon will retain the physical counterparts — “Lennon Connection: The NFT Collection” is presented by NFT marketplace YellowHeart and Julien's Auctions.
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Bloomberg, Decrypt, NME, Rolling Stone, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, The Guardian, BBC, yh.io, and Junghoon's Direct Media …
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The Ethereum Foundation renames Eth1 as “execution layer” and Eth2 as “consensus layer” to “save all future users from navigating this confusing mental model” — Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. Client teams are upgrading the protocol …
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Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, xuanling11's Free Newsletter, and Cryptonews
Tweets: @bullcryptopr and @barinov
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Indian smartphone shipments reached a record 162M in 2021, up 12% YoY, led by Xiaomi with 40.5M, Samsung with 30.1M, Vivo with 25.7M, and Realme with 24.2M — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Monday, 24 January 2022
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| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
London-based BCB Group, which offers financial services to Coinbase, Kraken, and others, including for payments and custody, raises a $60M Series A — BCB Group has announced a $60 million Series A investment co-led by Foundation Capital in what it claims is the largest Series A investment for a UK blockchain startup to date.
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Finextra, CoinDesk, and Yahoo Finance
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Union officials say nearly half of the 6,143 Amazon workers eligible to vote in Bessemer, Alabama are new; ballots are due on March 28 — Nearly half of the 6,143 Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers eligible to vote in a union re-do election in the coming weeks in Bessemer, Alabama …
Tweets: @basche42, @spencersoper, and @josheidelson
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US Commerce Department says the global chip shortage will stretch into at least H2 2022, based on information from 150+ companies in the supply chain — The Biden administration has concluded that a global semiconductor shortage will persist until at least the second half of this year …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies raises €50M from the European Investment Bank, following a $40M Series A in 2019 — Starship Technologies, one of the bigger names in the world of autonomous delivery robots — those little caboose-like … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Some developers who use Apple's CloudKit have complained about an iCloud syncing bug for months; some are resorting to adding iCloud status pages to their apps — A number of developers are upset with an increasingly problematic iCloud server issue that is causing some apps … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tencent fires 70 people and bans 13 companies for bribery and embezzlement, as China continues oversight of its technology sector — - Chinese internet giant Tencent fired 70 people and blacklisted 13 firms last year as part of anti-graft campaign. — The latest internal investigation comes …
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