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Twitter's board says it intends to “close the transaction” at the agreed price and “enforce the merger agreement” — New York CNN Business — … Who wants to own Twitter? Maybe Elon Musk doesn't. Sure, maybe he is causing chaos to extract a lower price from the Twitter board …
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Twitter loses more execs amid Musk's takeover bid: Twitter Service VP Katrina Lane, head of data science Max Schmeiser, and VP of product management Ilya Brown — Twitter Inc. is losing three more senior employees, including two vice presidents, a reflection of the uncertainty inside …
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk, who wanted to “defeat the spam bots”, is lying when he says bots are why he's backing away from buying Twitter at $54.20/share, amid stocks' downturn — Oh Elon — Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and an active Twitter user.
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| Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: |
Netflix cuts 150 jobs out of 11K across departments in a new round of layoffs, mostly in the US, as the company reins in costs amid slowing revenue growth — EXCLUSIVE: Layoffs are underway at Netflix today. About 150 positions out of the streamer's workforce of 11,000 are being eliminated amid …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Apple delays its three-day-a-week return to the office indefinitely, citing rising COVID-19 cases; the company still expects attendance two days per week — Apple Inc. delayed a plan to require workers to come back to the office three days a week, citing a resurgence in Covid-19 cases …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud launches new software supply chain and zero trust tools, including one that gives governments and enterprises access to vetted open-source packages — Google Cloud is holding its annual Security Summit this week and unsurprisingly, the company used the event to launch a few new security features.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
A report details the challenges that delayed Apple's mixed reality headset launch by years and the initial pushback from Jony Ive's team on a VR headset concept — Since beginning its efforts in 2015, Apple's work on a mixed reality headset has been hit with a range of challenges that have pushed …
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| Bloomberg: |
Research: despite China's crypto mining ban, its global bitcoin hashrate share grew to 21.1% from Sept. 2021 to Jan. 2022, suggesting a rise in covert mining — While the US extended its leading position as the dominant location for Bitcoin mining, China has reemerged as the second-largest locale despite …
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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
As startups face potential drops in valuation and VCs demand lower spending and higher margins, some companies turn to cutting staff, marketing, and projects — Funding is suddenly scarce as venture capital firms grow stingy, forcing young companies to get frugal and focus on breaking even| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Thought Machine, a cloud-based infrastructure provider for 35+ banks globally, raises a $160M Series D at a $2.7B valuation, up from $1B+ in November 2021 — Unicorn brings Morgan Stanley on board as client and investor — London-based fintech Thought Machine has doubled its valuation …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Meta's Q1 2022 enforcement report: Facebook's automated content moderation systems improved YoY; the number of wrongly removed, and restored posts, also grew — What the company's latest enforcement report tells us about the free-speech debate — Today, let's talk about Facebook's latest effort …
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| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Celebrities have been criticized for hyping crypto without highlighting the risks after this month's sell-off, as Crypto.com and FTX scale back on ad spending — Crypto boosters such as Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow have been criticized for hyping virtual currency without highlighting the risks.
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