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May 6, 2022, 11:40 AM

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Dan Primack / Axios:
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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Bloomberg:
Sources: China has ordered government agencies and state-backed companies to replace foreign PCs with domestic ones running local OSes in two years  —  China has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within …
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
SEC says Nvidia has agreed to pay $5.5M to settle charges of “inadequate disclosures” concerning the impact of cryptomining on its gaming business in FY 2018  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it had settled charges against technology company Nvidia Corporation …
Aislinn Keely / The Block:
The CFTC orders BitMEX's three cofounders to pay $10M each for not registering with the agency, and failing to implement anti-money laundering and KYC checks  —  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has hit the founders of crypto exchange BitMEX with a total of $30 million in civil monetary penalties.
Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk:
Block Q1: revenue down 22% YoY to $3.96B, vs. $4.1B est., profit up 34% YoY to $1.29B, and Cash App bitcoin revenue down 51% YoY to $1.73B; stock is down 5%+  —  Fintech and digital payments giant Block Inc. (SQ) reported first-quarter earnings that missed analyst expectations on Thursday …
James Clayton / BBC:
The UK's DCMS plans to give the Digital Markets Unit powers to clamp down on Big Tech's “predatory practices”, following reports the UK shelved such plans  —  Large tech companies such as Google and Facebook will have to abide by new competition rules in the UK or risk facing huge fines, the government said.
Bloomberg:
Sources say the UK is delaying Revolut's banking license over concerns about its crypto trading service and whether it can tackle money laundering and fraud  —  Nikolay Storonsky, once a championship swimmer in his native Russia, doesn't like to hang around in the slow lane.

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