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Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to acquire all of Twitter's outstanding stock for $54.20 per share, in a deal worth ~$43B  —  Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, according to an updated 13D filing, Bloomberg News reports.
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Jon Swartz / MarketWatch:
Apple says Meta's plan to take a 47.5% cut of virtual sales on Horizon Worlds “lays bare Meta's hypocrisy” for criticizing Apple's 30% cut on the App Store  —  Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.'s intent to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales within its emerging metaverse …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp announces Communities with expanded admin tools and other features, letting schools and other organizations host group chats with thousands of users  —  Meta is throwing billions of dollars into building out the metaverse as the future of social networking but in the near term …
Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk:
The auction for an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, ended with a maximum bid of 2 ETH, worth around $6.2K  —  Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year.
New York Times:
Since the Ukraine invasion, thousands of Russian tech workers have left the country, an exodus that will fundamentally change the Russian tech industry  —  Since their country invaded Ukraine, Russian tech workers have left by the thousands.  They appear intent on rebuilding their lives and businesses in other countries.
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
US government agencies warn of new custom tools, created by several APT actors, that are capable of compromising IT equipment used in critical infrastructure  —  Several advanced persistent threat (APT) actors have created custom-made tools designed to breach IT equipment used …
Kate Kaye / Protocol:
A look at AI tools built by sales and customer service software companies like Uniphore and Sybill to detect human emotions, as Zoom unveils Zoom IQ for Sales  —  Virtual sales meetings have made it tougher than ever for salespeople to read the room.  So, some well funded tech providers …
Vishal Chawla / The Block:
Terraform Labs, which runs the Terra blockchain and UST stablecoin, gifts 10M LUNA tokens, worth ~$880M, to the Luna Foundation Guard, likely to underpin UST  —  Quick Take  — Terraform Labs said it ‘gifted’ 10 million ($880 million) worth of LUNA tokens to Luna Foundation Guard.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
DoControl, which develops no-code tools for cloud app log-ins, raises a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners  —  Cloud security is one of the big drivers among enterprises making IT investments this year, according to a recent report from Gartner, which estimated that some $4.4 trillion in IT spend overall in 2022.

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