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Filing: Elon Musk secures $7.14B for his Twitter bid from Larry Ellison, Binance, Sequoia, a16z, Saudi Prince Alwaleed, Fidelity, and others; Ellison gives $1B — Tesla chief raises $7bn from new investors for takeover of social media platform — Elon Musk has revealed that he has raised $7.14bn …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Sources: Elon Musk is expected to serve as the temporary CEO of Twitter after acquiring 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 investment from Qatar, reduces the margin loan from $12.5B 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 announce plans to adopt features from the FIDO Alliance, which is working on passwordless tech for websites and apps — 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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| 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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| 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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| 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
Tweets: @antoniocasilli, @cengizyar, @mikebutcher, and @steve_hanke
| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in a meeting, Twitter's VP of product appealed to a sense of community to persuade skeptical staff to stay under Musk; one slide asked: “Why Bother?” — At a Twitter Inc. staff meeting Wednesday morning, the first slide of a presentation asked a question on the minds of many employees: “Why Bother?”| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Meta plans to slow hiring amid record low revenue growth; source: Meta paused entry-level hiring and plans to stop or slow hiring for mid-level and senior roles — - Facebook's parent company sees challenges ahead because of Apple's privacy changes, the war in Ukraine and broad macroeconomic shifts.| 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) …
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| 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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| Nicole Sganga / CBS News: |
Cybereason: China-linked Winnti APT exfiltrated hundreds of GBs of IP in a cyber campaign targeting ~30 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia since 2019 — A yearslong malicious cyber operation spearheaded by the notorious Chinese state actor, APT 41, has siphoned off an estimated trillions …
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Tweets: @johnhemmings2, @cybereason, @cbsnews, @nicolesganga, @780thc, and @campuscodi
| 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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| 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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Tweets: @bluesky, @bluesky, @bluesky, @emresokullu, @jeanburgess, and @jeanburgess
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Cameo lays off 87 staff; source says CTO Rob Post, marketing exec Emily Boschwitz, CPO Nundu Janakiram, and Chief People Officer Melanie Steinbach have gone — Cameo, the celebrity video greetings startup, laid off 87 of staffers Wednesday, a move that CEO Steven Galanis described as “right-sizing.”
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Iceland-based Sidekick Health, which offers a gamified, digital-first care service, raises a $55M Series B led by Novator Ventures — Digital therapeutics plus pills? Iceland's Sidekick Health has developed a gamified digital care platform that's designed to support healthcare outcomes …
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FinSMEs, Tech.eu, Fierce Biotech, MobiHealthNews, Asabys, and ArcticStartup
| Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
Alan, which offers personalized mental health programs through its app, raises a €183M Series E led by Canadian Teachers Venture Growth at a €2.7B valuation — Alan, unlike many other big healthtech startups in Europe like Kry/Livi and Ada Health, has companies as its customers.| 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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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Canadian digital bank Neo Financial raises a CAD$185M Series C at a CAD$1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to CAD$299M, and says it has 1M+ customers — Canadian digital bank Neo Financial has raised $145.2 million (CAN$185 million) after surpassing the 1 million customer mark, the company announced today.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google will shut down YouTube Go, the lightweight Android app first launched in 2016, beginning in August 2022, citing improvements to the main YouTube app — YouTube Go is shutting down beginning this August, Google has announced this week. The lightweight Android app first launched …
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| Katie Hafner / New York Times: |
David Walden, who helped build the Interface Message Processor that switched data among computers using the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet, died at 79 — In 1969, he was part of a team of young engineers who built the first machine to switch data among computers using the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet.
Tweets: @philiped and @nytimestech
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