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NonFungible: NFT sales fell 92% to a ~19K daily average this week from a ~225K peak in September 2021; active wallets fell 88% to ~14K from a November 2021 high — Is this the beginning of the end of NFTs? — 1x — The NFT market is collapsing. — The sale of nonfungible tokens …
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Uber Q1: $6.85B revenue, up 136% YoY, net loss of $5.9B due to equity investments, gross bookings of $26.4B, up 35%, mobility revenues crossed delivery revenues — - Uber reported first-quarter earnings before the bell Wednesday. — Mobility revenues have finally surpassed delivery revenues, as travel rebounds.
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Sources: Elon Musk told potential investors in his Twitter deal he plans to stage an IPO of the company in as little as three years after taking it private — Tesla chief has been speaking to investors including private-equity firms about participating in deal| Matt Milano / Android Authority: |
Samsung unveils Universal Flash Storage 4.0, claiming double the speed of UFS 3.1, making it ideal for 5G phones, and sets mass production for Q3 2022 — 5G smartphones are about to get much faster. — TL;DR — Samsung's UFS 4.0 flash storage will offer twice the performance of 3.1.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Tailscale, which provides an enterprise mesh VPN service built on the open source WireGuard protocol, raises a $100M Series B at a $1B+ valuation — Zero trust security is an emerging paradigm in enterprise IT. It means that no one is trusted by default from inside or outside a network …
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Moysle, which provides a mobile device management system for Apple devices, raises a $196M Series B led by Insight Partners — Moysle, a mobile device management platform for Apple devices, today announced that it raised $196 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners …
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Sentry, an application performance monitoring service used by Microsoft, Slack, and others, raises a $90M Series E led by Bond and Accel at a $3B+ valuation — Sentry, an application performance monitoring (APM) platform used by some of the world's biggest companies, has raised $90 million in a series E round of funding.
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| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
Interview with Shopify's Alex Danco, who heads its blockchain team, on how Web3, crypto, and NFTs can reshape commerce, making Shopify “wallet-aware”, and more — Alex Danco Joins to Explain NFTs and How Shopify is Becoming Wallet-Aware … Today's Not Boring is brought to you by... Mighty Networks
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Twitter tests Twitter Circle, a feature for sharing tweets with up to 150 people, rather than publicly, similar to Instagram's Close Friends sharing option — Twitter today announced that it is testing a new Twitter Circle feature, which is designed to allow people to share their tweets with a smaller crowd.
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| Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: |
Publicis will acquire Profitero, which provides e-commerce software and analytics to over 4,000 brands, sources say for about $200M — Advertising holding companies are increasingly helping marketers reach and sell consumers directly online — French advertising holding company Publicis Groupe SA …
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SafeGraph says it will stop selling the location data of visitors to Planned Parenthood and other family planning centers “to curtail any potential misuse” — The move comes after Motherboard found it was possible to buy data showing how many people visited Planned Parenthood locations …
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| Kyle Alspach / Protocol: |
GitHub will require developers who contribute code to use two-factor authentication by the end of 2023; just 16.5% of active GitHub users currently use 2FA — GitHub announced that it will require developers who contribute code to the repository to use two-factor authentication by the end of 2023 …
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