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Elon Musk's investor pitch deck: grow Twitter revenue 5x to $26.4B, cut ad revenue reliance to <50% by 2028, grow Twitter Blue's users to 69M by 2025, and more — Here's what Mr. Musk is projecting for Twitter's finances over the next few years, according to a pitch deck he presented to investors.
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Sources: Allen Wu, who was replaced as CEO of Arm China by Liu Renchen, has refused to surrender control amid Shanghai's lockdown, where Arm China's HQ is based — Allen Wu refuses to surrender control in extraordinary corporate battle at UK chip designer — High in a Shenzhen office tower …
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The US sanctions cryptocurrency mixing service Blender.io for allegedly laundering $20.5M from the Axie Infinity hack, the first time the US sanctioned a mixer — The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned a cryptocurrency mixing service for the first time, citing evidence that it was used …
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| Zachary Boddy / Windows Central: |
A major Xbox Network outage is preventing some users from launching games and starting Cloud Gaming sessions; issues related to purchases have been resolved — Xbox consoles are temporarily a lot less useful for gaming. — Update, May 6, 2022, at 10:25 p.m. CT: Over seven hours …
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Some ex-TikTok US staff talk of long hours, tight deadlines, lack of work-life boundaries, sleep deprivation, weekend work, and secrecy uncommon in the industry — Former U.S. staffers tell of sleep deprivation, work on weekends and mandatory meetings with colleagues on the other side of the globe
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A California federal judge dismisses Donald Trump's lawsuit seeking to lift his ban from Twitter but may allow an amended complaint to be filed against Twitter — - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by former President Donald Trump seeking to lift his ban from Twitter.
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A report on publicly traded crypto mining companies finds Core Scientific leads with $545M in 2021 revenue, Riot Blockchain had $215M, and Hive Blockchain $195M — Mining firm Core Scientific's hash rate leads all public companies with 8.3 EH/s, and it mined 5,769 BTC in 2021. — 225 Total views| Anthony Faiola / Washington Post: |
A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten VPNs jumped from 15K before the war to 475K in March — A surge in virtual private network downloads is a challenge to Vladimir Putin and his version of the war| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Google forms a new blockchain group, led by former Citigroup executive James Tromans, to make the Google Cloud Platform the first choice for Web3 developers — - Former Citigroup executive James Tromans will lead the new Google group that will build services to help developers construct Web3 applications.
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| Vauhini Vara / Wired: |
How low prices and influencers helped Chinese online fast fashion retailer Shein become the world's third biggest private company, claiming a 28% US marketshare — The Chinese company has become a fast-fashion juggernaut by appealing to budget-conscious Gen Zers. But its ultralow prices are hiding unacceptable costs.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Inside Engineered Arts, a UK-based company making humanoid robots for entertainment and education that can emote and respond to passersby with preset banter — Will Jackson, CEO of robotics company Engineered Arts, says he isn't sure what's worse: the angry emails that accuse him of building machines …
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| Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals: |
Paris-based Rise Up, which provides employee learning software that currently serves 400+ customers and 1M learners in 60 countries, raises a €30M Series B — Paris-based Rise Up, a company that provides an employee learning software solution, announced on Tuesday that it has raised €30M in its Series B round of funding.
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