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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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| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Source: the FTC, not the DOJ, is reviewing Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition and will focus on potential harm to rivals — The U.S. antitrust review of Microsoft Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. will be handled by the Federal Trade Commission …
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| Maximiliano Firtman / firt.dev: |
iOS 15.4 beta code shows Apple is working on support for Safari push notifications for web-based apps — iOS 15.4 beta has finally added icon support in the manifest, Web Push, AR, and VR experiments. — Twitter @firt About Newsletter — About 8 min reading time
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India proposes a 30% tax on income from the transfer of crypto, NFTs, and other digital assets and will launch a digital rupee in the next financial year — India on Tuesday proposed launching digital rupee in within a year and a 30% tax on income from transfer of virtual digital assets …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
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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| 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 …
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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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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google begins rolling out iMessage reactions for Messages in beta, appearing next to message bubbles; some emoji reactions are not quite identical — As we spotted in November and following the latest push for RCS support on iPhone earlier this month, Google Messages is starting to roll …
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| Tom Krisher / Associated Press: |
Docs: Tesla will issue an OTA update to its FSD software that let vehicles roll through stop signs without coming to a halt, affecting around 54,000 vehicles — DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 54,000 cars and SUVs because their “Full Self-Driving” software lets them roll through stop signs without coming to a complete halt.
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apple donated at least $1.2M to four US foreign policy think tanks in 2019-2020, up from $625,000 in 2017-18 — Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple battle Washington's move towards stricter regulation using anti-China lobbying| Reuters: |
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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| IDC: |
Global tablet shipments grew 3.2% YoY to 168.8M in 2021; Apple had 34.2% market share, Samsung had 18.3%, Lenovo had 10.5%, Amazon had 9.5%, and Huawei had 5.7% — Worldwide tablet shipments reached 46 million units during the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21), posting a decline for the second time since the pandemic began in 2020.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Metronome, which helps SaaS companies charge on a usage basis using its APIs, raises a $30M Series A led by a16z — As more software companies shift to more flexible pricing models based on consumption, many are choosing to charge customers on a per-use, or usage, basis.
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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 … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Lunchbox, which offers restaurants tools for ordering, managing apps, and other tech, raises a $50M Series B led by Coatue after a $20M Series A in October 2020 — It's not a secret that the restaurant industry was a late adopter of technology, a move that unfortunately left many restaurants unprepared …
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| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
Chargebee, which helps businesses manage billing, subscriptions, revenue, and compliance, raises $250M at a $3.5B valuation led by Tiger Global and Sequoia — Enterprise software startup Chargebee has raised $250 million at a valuation of $3.5 billion, in a funding round lead by Tiger Global …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
European on-demand scooter service Dott adds a $70M extension to its $85M Series B from April 2021 led by abrdn and Sofina — Urban mobility startup Dott has raised an extension to its Series B round. Originally announced in the Spring of 2021, the company raised an $85 million Series B round …
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Silicon Republic, Silicon Canals, Tech.eu, and Reuters
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
As Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio quietly departs and the company merges with Automattic, a look at its future plans and enormous impact on the modern social web — The CEO of Tumblr—a social platform that was once worth more than $1 billion, and in its time was among the internet's most popular … | Wall Street Journal: |
Indian politician Rahul Gandhi writes to Twitter's CEO alleging it has been unwittingly complicit in a government campaign to limit new followers to his account — Politician writes to Twitter CEO to complain about curbs he blames on India's government, highlighting how New Delhi polices U.S. social media companies
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Business Standard, The Economic Times, The News International, ThePrint, and The Economic Times
Tweets: @rasmus_kleis, @zoo_bear, @amitmalviya, @zoo_bear, @zoo_bear, and @evelyndouek
| Ed Dixon / SportsPro: |
Report: crypto-based sports fan platform Iqoniq, which partnered with Spain's LaLiga and others, has entered liquidation; Iqoniq raised €100M in July 2020 — Fan engagement platform Iqoniq has gone into liquidation, leaving multiple sporting organisations potentially out of pocket.
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| 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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The Wrap, iThinkDifferent, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @jeffnolan, @benmullin, @benmullin, @christianism, @iansherr, @ballmatthew, and @kimmasters
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
A look at China's rapid adoption of AI in health care, driven in part by the availability of high-quality data, as concerns remain over privacy and security — Concerns remain over privacy and security of mountain of healthcare data — A live-stream video of a 76-year-old woman pottering about her kitchen plays on Li Hong's phone.
Tweets: @pstasiatech
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Solana Labs launches Solana Pay, a payments protocol to let merchants accept payments directly from customers in USDC, SOL, or other Solana-based tokens — Quick Take — Solana Labs has released a payments protocol for digital commerce. — The protocol, called Solana Pay …
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Protocol, CoinDesk, GitHub, Blockworks, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Briefing
| Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: |
CB Insights: in 2021, NYC-based crypto startups raised $6.5B, or 46% of all US funding for crypto-focused companies, followed by Silicon Valley with $3.9B — New York City is home to the most well-funded crypto startups in the U.S. — Last year, the city attracted $6.5 billion …
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