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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard will convert all its 1,100 temporary and contingent QA workers to full-time employees on July 1 and raise the minimum hourly rate to $20 — Nearly 1,100 temp game testers are getting full-time jobs with benefits — Activision Blizzard has just announced that all temporary …
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Bloomberg, GamesIndustry.biz, Engadget, Polygon, TheGamer, Destructoid, GameSpot, Protocol, Kotaku, VentureBeat, PC Gamer, TechSpot, Game Developer, Washington Post, and Reuters
Tweets: @adashtra and @jaypeters
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says it obtained a court order to take control of seven domains used by Russia-linked hacking group Strontium, disrupting its attacks on Ukraine — Microsoft has successfully disrupted attacks against Ukrainian targets coordinated by the Russian APT28 hacking group after taking …
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Microsoft On the Issues, The Hill, Reuters, and Neowin
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases a report it commissioned from Analysis Group, showing that the company's iOS apps “are rarely the most popular app of a particular type” — Apple today shared a new App Store study that it commissioned from economists at Analysis Group, with the report highlighting …
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Apple, CNET, The Information, PCMag, BGR, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, iThinkDifferent, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, and 9to5Mac
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Twitter CEO tells staff in an email that Elon Musk will hold an internal AMA, to address employee concerns that Musk will sabotage culture — Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees after a week of internal outcries over his appointment …
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Insider, New York Post, Menagerie, the Newsletter, and Input
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter tests Unmentioning with some users on the web, a feature that lets users select “leave this conversation” on a tweet to avoid notifications — Twitter might not have an edit button just yet, but it's still delivering at least one useful feature this week.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, PCMag, Social Media Today, Android Headlines, CNET, and Mashable
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases “multisearch” for Lens, letting users ask questions about photos and screenshots, in beta for US users in English on Android and iOS — One of the most interesting announcements at Google's Search-focused keynote in September was a big upgrade to Lens that lets you take a photo and ask questions about it.
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Tweets: @backlon, @searchliaison, @gethyper, and @glenngabe
| CoinDesk: |
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gives her first speech on digital assets, saying a CBDC “would require years of development, not months”, and more — The U.S. official addressed CBDCs, stablecoins and regulations. — A digital dollar could become a “trusted money comparable …
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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
One-click checkout service Bolt acquires crypto payments startup Wyre, sources say for around $1.5B, which would make it the largest non-SPAC crypto merger yet — Deal extends crypto's hot M&A market following record deal activity in 2021 — Bolt Financial Inc., a payments-focused financial …
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PR Newswire, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Crunchbase News, SiliconANGLE, Decrypt, Competition Policy …, Blockworks, Coinspeaker, Crypto Executive Guide, Reuters, Finextra, The Block, and Bloomberg
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| TechCrunch: |
Leaked recording: after laying off Better.com staff in December 2021, CEO Vishal Garg said the company “made $250M last year” but “probably pissed away $200M” — Vishal Garg admits he ‘failed’ in leaked recording addressing significant staff cuts
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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @nmasc_, and @zackwhittaker
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Singapore-based Luna Foundation Guard, a non-profit building reserves for the Terra (UST) stablecoin, plans to buy $100M worth of Avalanche tokens — The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a Singapore-based nonprofit building reserves for the stablecoin Terra (UST), announced Thursday … | Alyse Stanley / Washington Post: |
Epic Games and Lego partner to “shape the future of the metaverse” by building a digital experience where children can play safely online, but offer few details — Epic Games has already outlined ambitious plans for the metaverse and Thursday the “Fortnite” maker announced it intends to build part of it with Legos.
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Tweets: @epicnewsroom, @lego_group, @ldignan, @raffers, and @thedextriarchy
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's payments body refuses to acknowledge Coinbase's India launch, saying it is not aware of any cryptocurrency exchange using the UPI payments instrument — The National Payments Corporation of India, the governing body that oversees UPI in the country, said in a statement on Thursday evening … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
| Anushree Dave / The Block: |
Robinhood expands its crypto wallet to 2M+ users on a waitlist and says it will support transacting on the Bitcoin Lightning Network in the coming months — Quick Take — Eligible Robinhood customers can now send and receive crypto, the company announced Thursday at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami.
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Under the Hood, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Slashdot, Blockworks, Bitcoin Magazine, and Cointelegraph
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Crypto payments company Strike announces Shopify integration for bitcoin's Lightning payments network, rolling out to Shopify merchants in the US — The bitcoiner instrumental to El Salvador's announcement at last year's conference waxed philosophical on Bitcoin's role as a payments network.
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Blockworks, Business Wire, The Block, Forbes, Forbes, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Magazine, and CryptoSlate
| Bloomberg: |
Toucan, a crypto platform offering carbon offset credits, a market estimated to reach $190B in sales by 2030, is backfiring by incentivizing zombie projects — Users of a little-known crypto platform called Toucan now account for purchases of more than a quarter of all carbon credits by the world's largest verifier of offsets.
Tweets: @willoremus, @aaschapiro, @akshatrathi, and @climate
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
China's Zhiyi Tech, which provides AI tools to help fashion brands better predict bestsellers for e-commerce livestreaming, has raised ~$100M over three rounds — In China, live streaming promotion is emerging as a popular way for brands and influencers to reach consumers …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Gwyneth Paltrow, Mila Kunis, and other celebrities are pushing women to invest in NFTs, which critics say is a self-serving feminism centered on white women — Gwyneth Paltrow and Mila Kunis joined a Zoom in January to encourage 5,000 women in the audience to break into the male-dominated world of crypto.
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Side Chat With Stephanie. Tweets: @randizuckerberg, @heatherkelly, @cryptostacys, @sm, @laurawags, @adriyoung, @sarahnemerson, @laurawags, @helenbrosnan, @nitashatiku, and @katienotopoulos
| Reuters: |
Automotive retail software provider CDK Global agrees to be acquired and taken private by Brookfield Business Partners for $6.41B in cash — Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.N) is buying CDK Global Inc (CDK.O) for $6.41 billion in cash, taking private the last major publicly traded provider …
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Chicago Business, Daily Herald, MarketWatch, CDK Global Inc., and Bloomberg. Tweets: @quinnypig
| Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: |
Sensor Tower: Tencent's Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile are the world's most lucrative mobile games, respectively earning $735.4M and $643M in revenue in Q1 2022 — Honour of Kings, PUBG Mobile and Genshin Impact remained the most lucrative mobile games in the world in the first quarter … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Viz.ai, which uses AI to quickly detect signs of stroke and other diseases, raises a $100M Series D led by Tiger Global and Insight at a $1.2B valuation — The Israeli startup develops an AI-powered disease detection and care coordination platform which is already in use in over 1,000 hospitals, serving millions of patients| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Meta disrupts covert influence operations by Belarus- and Russia-linked actors targeting Ukrainians, like hacking Ukrainian military staff's Facebook accounts — Facebook said Thursday it disrupted several covert influence operations targeting Ukrainians, as the company has intensified …
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CNN, Meta, Reuters, PCMag, Engadget, Meta, New York Times, The Register, SecurityWeek, The Hill, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, CBS News, CNET, and The Verge
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