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Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to acquire all of Twitter's outstanding stock for $54.20/share in cash, 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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| 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 …
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| 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.
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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 …
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| 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 …
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Tweets: @katekayereports, @katbamkapow, @hypervisible, @iethics, and @wolven
| 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.
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Tweets: @nytimes, @nytimesbusiness, @joenbc, @cliffordlevy, @kylieatwood, and @dlepeska
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
PitchBook NVCA report: US investments in Q1 remained strong at $70.7B, but IPOs and exits slowed to $33.6B after three consecutive quarters over $192B — Venture capital dealmaking activity and exits slowed in the first quarter after a record-breaking 2021, according to the Q1 2022 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor.
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Ava Labs, the lead developer of the Avalanche blockchain, is raising $350M at a $5.25B valuation — Ava Labs Inc., the lead developer of the Avalanche blockchain, is in the process of raising a new round of funding, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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| 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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Geektime, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, DoControl, and SiliconANGLE
| Jasmine Hicks / The Verge: |
Reddit updates its search to index comments, available globally on the web but not its apps, and improves natural language searches — The new rollout also comes with a refined search experience for desktop users on the platform — Today, Reddit is updating its search feature to index comments.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Ukraine, its allies, and hactivists have made public hundreds of gigabytes of files and millions of emails on the Russian state, including doxing Russian troops — Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while' hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.
Tweets: @fabiochiusi, @findingveracity, @780thc, and @mattburgess1
| Callan Quinn / The Block: |
Context, an app that lets users follow and track other people's crypto wallets and transactions, raises a $19.5M seed led by Variant Fund and Sam Altman — Quick Take — The round was led by Variant Fund and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. — The firm's app lets users track on-chain activity from followed wallets.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sequoia India's Shailendra Singh leaves fashion marketplace Zilingo's board, amid a probe into its accounting methods and suspension of CEO Ankiti Bose — Sequoia Capital India's Shailendra Singh has stepped down from the board of troubled Zilingo Pte following questions …
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Tweets: @bloombergasia and @pelstrom
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple customers say delivery estimates for orders of some MacBook Pro models have been pushed back, in some cases as far as mid-June, amid China's lockdowns — Apple Inc. shoppers are facing longer wait times for the company's flagship MacBook Pro laptops, a sign that Covid-19 lockdowns in China may be contributing to delays.
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9to5Mac, iMore, The Mac Observer, Apple Must, iMore, and PhoneArena
Tweets: @mingchikuo and @mingchikuo
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok is testing a way for users to dislike comments to help users “feel more in control” of what they see; dislike counts will be hidden — TikTok is testing a way for users to “dislike” comments in an effort to help people “feel more in control” over what they are seeing.
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TikTok, PCMag, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, MSPoweruser, Pandaily, Pocket-lint, and Mashable
| Nicolle Liu / Wall Street Journal: |
After the pandemic forced employees to work from home, some neurodivergent people are thriving at remote cybersecurity jobs — The Covid-19 pandemic forced many employees to work from home, leveling the playing field for people with conditions such as autism, who might not fare as well in office settings
Tweets: @dnvolz, @amandalgorton, @neurovagrant, @wsj, and @newley
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Wikipedia editors vote 232 to 94 to request the Wikimedia Foundation stop accepting crypto donations; the foundation is not legally bound by the proposal — Critics argue the bitcoin and ethereum networks consume too much energy. — More than 200 long-time Wikipedia editors have requested …
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