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Investigation reveals the identities of two main founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection: Greg Solano, aka “Gargamel”, and Wylie Aronow — The buzzy NFT collection has raked in millions and the eager support of dozens of celebrities.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Peloton is drawing interest from potential buyers, including Amazon; Peloton's market value is now ~$8B, down from its ~$50B high around a year ago — The maker of stationary bikes faces pressure from activist investor as its share price sags — Peloton Interactive Inc …
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| Riana Pfefferkorn / The Center for Internet and Society: |
A close look at the EARN IT Act, which is modeled after FOSTA and was recently reintroduced in Congress, and why it risks exacerbating the online CSAM problem — This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act:
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Meta, which ignored creators for years, has only “shameless” creators and their awful content to fall back on in its pivot to video and eventual irrelevance — Read to the end for a tremendous meditation on February — Facebook Made Its Own World And Now It's Stuck In It
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Joe Rogan apologizes for past use of N-word after a compilation video of him using the slur went viral; Spotify seems to have quietly removed ~70 JRE episodes — His apology came as listeners said that as many as 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast had been quietly taken off Spotify …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to unveil a 5G iPhone SE and an iPad Air with a faster processor and 5G in an online presentation on or near March 8 — Apple Inc. is targeting a date on or near March 8 to unveil a new low-cost iPhone and an updated iPad, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
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| Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: |
Digital assets like NFTs give us a glimpse into a future where every aspect of human life that can be digitally recorded will be collateralized and securitized — Twitter has begun allowing its users to showcase NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, as profile pictures on their accounts.
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
A breakdown of Google Cloud's rivalry with AWS and Azure as analysts expect $26B in 2022 GCP revenue and IDC predicts ~30% YoY cloud market growth until 2025 — When Amazon's cloud computing network went down on Dec. 7, it hampered a broad swath of companies that rely on its servers, including Disney, Netflix, and Ticketmaster.
Tweets: @nicoagrant
| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Dog walking startup Wag will go public via a SPAC merger at a $350M valuation; SoftBank, which invested $300M, sold its stake back to Wag in 2019 at a loss — Wag Labs Inc., the developer of dog-walking app Wag!, has agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-check company.
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| Aluisio Alves / Reuters: |
Brazil-based Gupy, which uses AI to help around 1,500 companies select, hire, and train employees, raises ~$93M led by SoftBank Latin America Fund and Riverwood — Brazilian digital human resources startup Gupy said on Monday it has raised 500 million reais ($93.15 million) … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Torii, which lets businesses automate the management of SaaS tools, raises a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $65M — The explosion of software — many companies use at least 100 SaaS applications — has made the world of managing that software more decentralized and more complex than in the past.| Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta is rethinking its policy of banning new political ads in the final days before an election, as part of its preparation for the 2022 midterms — Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. is rethinking its policy of banning new political advertisements in the final days before an election … Sponsor Posts
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