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Filing: Elon Musk raises $7.14B for his Twitter bid from Saudi Prince Alwaleed, Larry Ellison, Sequoia, VyCapital, Binance, a16z, and others; Ellison gives $1B — Elon Musk on Thursday disclosed a group of co-investors in his Twitter takeover. The names are impressive, but most of their check sizes aren't.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Sources: Elon Musk is expected to serve as the temporary CEO of Twitter for a few months after he completes his $44B takeover of the company — - Elon Musk is expected to serve as a temporary CEO of Twitter for a few months after he completes his $44 billion takeover of the social media company, according to CNBC's David Faber.
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| Edwin Chan / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Elon Musk's new $7.14B in equity financing for Twitter, which includes a $375M investment from Qatar, reduces his $12.5B margin loan to $6.25B — Elon Musk has secured about $7.1 billion of new financing commitments for his proposed $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc., the company said in a filing Thursday.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Apple, Google, and Microsoft plan to offer the FIDO Alliance's passwordless tech on websites and apps, using fingerprint readers, face scanners, and smartphones — Ian Sherr — Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world.
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Whistleblowers: Meta deliberately took down Pages for hospitals and other Australian institutions in 2021 as a negotiating tactic over the news bargaining law — When Facebook blocked news pages last year to pre-empt Australian legislation that would force it to pay for content … | Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Microsoft partners with Epic to offer Fortnite for free through Xbox Cloud Gaming, with or without a subscription, across Android, iOS, iPadOS, and Windows PCs — The tech giant is experimenting with offering free-to-play games through its streaming service. — Ian Sherr
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| New York Times: |
Elon Musk's hate for ads conflicts with Twitter's business model, as ad execs say they will move spending elsewhere if the company relaxes content moderation — Many marketers were already lukewarm on the service. Now, some may move their money elsewhere if the content moderation policies are relaxed.
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| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The White House instructs federal agencies to increase preparations in the next six months for quantum computers capable of breaking public-key cryptography — A memorandum issued Wednesday by President Joe Biden orders federal agencies to ramp up preparations for a day when quantum computers …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
At Wednesday's Senate hearing, CrowdTangle's Brandon Silverman and other researchers explained why the US needs laws requiring Big Tech companies to share data — Everyone wants answers about social networks. These experts know where to look — On Wednesday, Congress was treated …
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| Stefanie Marotta / Bloomberg: |
Shopify reports Q1 revenue rose 22% YoY to $1.2B, below expectations, as GMV grew 16% YoY to $43.2B; Shopify will acquire Deliverr for $2.1B; stock drops 10%+ — Shopify Inc. shares plunged to the lowest since April 2020 after it missed analysts' profit estimates and announced the largest acquisition …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Zora, which offers an open-source NFT marketplace protocol, raises a $50M seed at a $600M valuation led by Katie Haun's new fund — In December, the high-flying crypto investor Katie Haun roiled the crypto world by announcing she was leaving Andreessen Horowitz to launch her own $1.5 billion venture fund.| Luke Taylor / Rest of World: |
Survey of 1,800 households in El Salvador shows 61% have abandoned the Chivo bitcoin wallet after withdrawing a free $30 sign-up bonus — Those who stayed are not on the Chivo app for what was intended, using it to keep their dollars safe rather than for crypto. — • BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google acquires Raxium, which makes MicroLED displays well-suited for AR and VR; Raxium says its tech is 5x more energy efficient than the previous world record — Raxium claims its display tech is five times more efficient than the current world record holder
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Curebase, which provides software and hardware for clinical trials, raises a $40M Series B — The medical world has come a long way from the traditional, centralized way of conducting clinical trials, but there's still a lot of modernization left to do. Curebase provides the infrastructure … | Joshua Bote / SFGATE: |
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
IC3 says there were 241K+ reports of business email compromise scams globally from June 2016 to July 2019, totaling $43B+ in actual and attempted losses — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today that the amount of money lost to business email compromise (BEC) … | Kris Holt / Engadget: |
AMD launches several C-series Ryzen 5000 CPUs for Chromebooks, starting with the Acer Chromebook Spin 514, HP Elite c645 G2 Chromebook, and others — AMD has at last made chips with its Zen 3 architecture for higher-end Chromebooks. It created several C-series Ryzen 5000 processors that are designed for Chrome OS.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter's open source Bluesky unit releases early code for a decentralized social network protocol, dubbed Authenticated Data Experiment, for developers to test — It's called the Authenticated Data Experiment — Bluesky, Twitter's open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol.
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Luna Foundation Guard acquires $1.5B in bitcoin to bolster the reserves of US Terra, its most popular stablecoin, bringing its bitcoin holding to ~$3.5B — The Luna Foundation Guard has acquired $1.5 billion in bitcoin to bolster the reserves of its most popular stablecoin, known as U.S. Terra.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Sources: On Deck, which connects founders with capital and advice, laid off 25% of its staff, or ~72 people, after raising ~$40M of a planned $100M-$150M fund — On Deck, a tech company that connects founders to each other, capital and advice, has laid off 25% off its staff, per sources familiar with the company.
Tweets: @carnage4life, @nmasc_, @eriktorenberg, and @sarthakgh
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US-based MaxLinear, which makes chips for broadband systems, will buy Taiwan's Silicon Motion, which makes NAND flash controllers for SSD devices, for $3.8B — MaxLinear Inc., a maker of chips for broadband communications, agreed to acquire Silicon Motion Technology Corp. in a cash … Sponsor Posts
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