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Filing: Elon Musk has secured $46.5B to acquire Twitter, including $25.5B in debt financing via Morgan Stanley and other firms, and is exploring a tender offer — - Elon Musk is exploring whether to commence a tender offer for Twitter, according to a new securities filing.
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| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk's free speech promise for Twitter follows years of silencing or punishing criticism at Tesla and SpaceX, including attacking staff trying to unionize — If Elon Musk is able to take over Twitter Inc., his biggest promise is to transform it into a platform for free speech with few restrictions …
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Sources: Meta is reviewing whether COO Sheryl Sandberg pressured the Daily Mail in 2016 and 2019 into killing stories about her then-boyfriend Bobby Kotick — Social-media executive, who dated the Activision Blizzard CEO, was part of campaign to persuade the U.K. tabloid to shelve a potential article
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| New York Times: |
Warner Bros. Discovery will shut down CNN+ on April 30, after its March 29 debut; sources: CNN+ had ~150K subscribers and was on pace to hit first-year goals — The new corporate owners of CNN are moving to end the new streaming service after a splashy debut. — In the end, CNN+ lasted less than a month.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Andreessen Horowitz launches a16z Crypto Research, a lab focused on Web3 breakthroughs that can contribute to deployable code, led by academic Tim Roughgarden — Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is diving deeper into the crypto market with the launch of a new academic lab dedicated …
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| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Binance begins enforcing tougher KYC checks, including proof of address, on Russian users with crypto holdings exceeding €10,000, following further EU sanctions — Crypto exchange Binance is enforcing tougher Know Your Customer (KYC) checks for Russian users after the latest wave of European Union sanctions.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon announces a $1B Industrial Innovation Fund to back companies of all stages developing customer fulfillment, logistics, and supply chain technologies — Amazon on Thursday announced a new $1 billion venture fund that the tech giant will use to back companies of all stages developing …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify now lets all creators in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand upload video podcasts via Anchor, which Spotify acquired in February 2019 — After over a year of more limited tests — All creators in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand can now upload video podcasts …
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
After years of regulatory pressure, Google unveils “a full redesign” of its cookie consent banner in Europe, including a “reject all” button, starting in France — Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it's rolling out a new European-wide policy allowing users to more easily avoid …
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The Keyword, The Verge, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Register, and Protocol
Tweets: @trevorcroker, @bergmayer, @caseynewton, and @tariqkrim
| Cobie: |
Crypto staking evolved from rewards for collateralized coins validating blocks into a Ponzi scheme; Yuga Labs is effectively paying ApeCoin to hold ApeCoin — Recently, I was contacted by a member of the board of ApeCoin, which is the BAYC token's equivalent of a board of directors I guess.
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| MIT Technology Review: |
How AI data-labeling companies like Appen use cheap labor in crisis-ridden countries like Venezuela to manually tag videos, sort photos, and transcribe audio — It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed up for Appen …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q1 revenue of $1.06B, up 38% YoY, vs. $1.07B est., global DAUs up 18% YoY to 332M vs. 330M est., and net loss up 25% YoY to $360M — - Snap missed Wall Street expectations for profit and sales when it reported first-quarter results on Thursday after the bell.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon unveils Buy with Prime, which lets select third-party merchants use Amazon's shipping and logistics network to fulfill orders placed on their own sites — - Buy with Prime enables third party retailers to take advantage of Amazon's vast shipping and fulfillment network for orders placed on their own site.
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Tweets: @nima3rad, @laurabehrenswu, @mattmday, @eugenekim222, @delrey, @davehclark, @ericjhonsa, @co2n2r, @anthony, @tedkempcnbc, and @rsarver
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: on Friday, the EU will unveil the Digital Services Act, which bans targeting users based on religion, gender, or sexual preferences, among other rules — Digital Services Act lays out rules for technology groups to keep users safe online — The EU is poised to unveil a law …
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Tweets: @hillaryclinton, @johnnyryan, @javierespft, @javierespft, @muradahmed, @javierespft, and @javierespft
| Canalys: |
India's smartphone shipments hit 38M in Q1 2022, growing just 2% YoY; top vendor Xiaomi fell 24% to 8M, Samsung fell 2% to 6.9M, while Realme grew 40% to 6M — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Thursday, 21 April 2022| Marc Wojno / ZDNet: |
Live Bash, which lets artists livestream their performances and convert the shows into digital collectibles and NFTs, raises a $21M seed from unnamed investors — The entertainment tech startup will allow performers to rent one of its physical stages to livestream and mint their performances.
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| Catarina Moura / The Block: |
Crusoe Energy Systems, which uses excess natural gas from oil extraction to mine crypto in 86 data centers, raises a $505M Series C led by G2 Venture Partners — Bitcoin miner Crusoe Energy Systems raised $505 million in a Series C round to accelerate the growth of its mining operations powered …
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Business Wire and Bitcoin Magazine
| Bloomberg: |
Filings: Apple spent $2.5M on US lobbying in Q1 2022, up 34% from $1.86M in Q4 2021; Google spent $2.96M in Q1, up 34% QoQ but flat YoY; Microsoft spent $2.5M — Apple Inc. spent a record quarterly high of $2.5 million on lobbying in the first three months of 2022 amid increased pressure …
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