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The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures” — Wordle, Josh Wardle's stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times's portfolio of original …
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| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment announces it is buying Bungie, which makes Destiny and other games, for $3.6B; Bungie will become an independent subsidiary — Destiny studio will remain multiplatform, able “to self-publish and reach players wherever they choose to play”
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Ryan Breslow, co-founder of one-click checkout startup Bolt, steps down as CEO and becomes executive chairman, after his tweets bashing YC and Stripe went viral — Ryan Breslow, who founded the “one-click” checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it …
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| Taylor Lyles / IGN: |
Discord starts letting US PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 users link their PSN accounts and display game activity; support for more countries is coming soon — Support will roll out first to US users, though. — PlayStation owners will able to connect their accounts to Discord starting today … | Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out updated 3D avatars across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Stories in the US, Canada, and Mexico — It's a step toward the company's concept of the metaverse — Facebook parent company Meta is introducing 3D avatars to Instagram Stories and direct messages and updating …
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| John Hendel / Politico: |
Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data — The nonprofit mental-health hotline Crisis Text Line ended its data-sharing relationship with a for-profit spinoff Monday …
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Silvergate Bank confirms it is purchasing the Diem Association's tech and other assets by issuing $132M in stock and paying $50M in cash; Diem is shutting down — The Diem Association is shutting down. — Silvergate Bank confirmed Monday that it's purchasing the technology and other assets from Diem …
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| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Pinterest adds an augmented reality tool for furniture to its mobile app, letting users see how 20K products from retail partners would look in their homes — The new tool expands on its existing technology used for beauty products — Pinterest Inc. is introducing a new augmented reality tool … | Wall Street Journal: |
Antenna: Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, and others struggle to retain US subscribers who joined to watch a hit show; some subscribers only stay for a few months — Roughly half of U.S. viewers who joined right after ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ were gone in six months, data show
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Byju's is talking to at least three SPACs, aims to unveil IPO plans with one of them in three to four weeks, and is exploring a $750M-$1B pre-IPO round — India's most valuable startup, the online education provider Byju's, is in negotiations with at least three special-purpose acquisition companies …
Tweets: @ranjanxroy
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Taiwan-based GlobalWafers' proposed €4.35B takeover of German chip supplier Siltronic falls apart as Germany's government misses the approval deadline — Germany's economy ministry said it could not complete its review of a planned sale of chip supplier Siltronic to Taiwanese rival GlobalWafers …
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BlackBerry agrees to sell mobile, messaging, and wireless patents to Catapult IP Innovations for $600M, after ending support for its phones earlier in January — BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO), said on Monday it will sell its legacy patents primarily related to mobile devices …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Phantom, a Solana wallet similar to Ethereum's MetaMask, raises a $109M Series B at a $1.2B valuation, debuts an iOS app, and promises Ethereum support in 2022 — Quick Take — Phantom has raised $109 million in Series B funding and is now a unicorn. — The Solana wallet is looking …
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| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Education publisher Pearson acquires Credly, which helps businesses issue digital credentials to certify workers' skills, for $140M; Credly has 2,000+ customers — Pearson already owned a 20% stake in the digital workforce credentialing platform worth about $40 million but is now buying the entire company.| Reuters: |
Sources: Cybereason, which offers endpoint detection and response services, has confidentially filed for a US IPO that could value it at more than $5B — Cybereason, a security startup backed by SoftBank's (9984.T) Vision Fund 2 and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud unit …
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Deepnote, which offers a collaborative data science platform on top of Jupyter-based notebooks, raises a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures and Accel — Deepnote, a startup that is building a data science platform on top of Jupyter-compatible notebooks, today announced that it has raised … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Joe Rogan posts a video to Instagram defending booking contentious guests, apologizes to Spotify for the backlash, and says he may book more “experts” — 'I'm very sorry that this is happening to them.' — Joe Rogan has issued a response to the ongoing controversy …
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| Samuel Stolton / Politico: |
Doc: the US is pressing EU officials to revise the Digital Markets Act to focus less on US tech giants and ensure it covers tech companies from outside the US — The United States is pressing the EU to revise rules targeting digital giants to make them focus less on American companies …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Edtech startup Scaler, which offers upskilling courses like data science and ML to working professionals in India, raises a $55M Series B at a $710M valuation — Scaler, an edtech startup that offers upskilling courses to working professionals in India, has raised $55 million in a new financing round …
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