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A look at efforts by 50+ countries to control the data produced by their citizens, governments, and businesses, driven by privacy concerns, economics, and more — Nations are accelerating efforts to control data produced within their perimeters, disrupting the flow of what has become a kind of digital currency.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
As GDPR turns four, despite some positives, regulators struggle to keep up with complaints, the ad industry remains littered with potential abuses, and more — The world-leading data law changed how companies work. But four years on, there's a lag on cleaning up Big Tech.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Broadcom is in talks to acquire VMware, which has a ~$40B market cap; the discussions are ongoing and there's no guarantee they will lead to a purchase — Broadcom Inc. is in talks to acquire cloud-computing company VMware Inc., according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK's data protection watchdog fines Clearview AI ~£7.5M for violating privacy laws and orders the company to delete all info on UK citizens from its systems — The UK's data protection watchdog has confirmed a penalty for the controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI …
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Sources: Coinbase is testing an app from Ray Dalio's company Principles that lets staff rate each other on how well they exemplify Coinbase's 10 cultural tenets — Coinbase, a cryptocurrency trading firm that garnered attention for banning salary negotiations and political speech among employees … | Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
Klarna tells employees it plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, after reports of raising money at a reduced $30B valuation; LinkedIn shows it has 6,500+ staff — Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Klarna was seeking a new round of investment that could see its valuation brought down by a third, from $46bn to $30bn.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are positioned to emerge stronger from this downturn; Refinitiv: from 2008 to 2010, the companies acquired 100+ firms — Flush with cash, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are positioned to emerge from a downturn stronger and more powerful.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta plans to give outside researchers more info on political ad targeting on Facebook and Instagram and to update Ad Library with more info starting in July — Academics and journalists will be able to see more data about the way political ads are used to target users across Facebook and Instagram.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
The 11th Circuit federal court upholds blocking Florida's social media “censorship” law to protect First Amendment rights, as SCOTUS weighs Texas' similar law — As the Supreme Court weighs whether to block Texas' social media “censorship” law, a court of appeals has decided …
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| Financial Times: |
On April 6, weeks before UST collapsed, Binance promoted the stablecoin on Telegram as a “High Yield, Safe & Happy Earn” investment with an annual 19.63% yield — World's biggest crypto exchange marketed stablecoin lending scheme offering nearly 20% yield
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Chat logs: Twitter employees are bewildered about what their jobs are and will be after Elon Musk takes over; VP Jay Sullivan expects a “chaos tax” to continue — Deal has left employees bewildered about what their jobs are and will be — In one 24-hour period this month …
Tweets: @rupasubramanya, @saraheneedleman, and @saraheneedleman
| Patrick Klepek / VICE: |
The QA team at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software votes 19-3 to unionize, as US labor board prosecutors say that the company illegally threatened staff — A huge event in the crunch-prone video game industry, which has long resisted organized labor. — Patrick Klepek
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon, which has too much warehouse capacity now that pandemic-era shopping has faded, is looking to sublet at least 10M square feet across the US — Amazon.com Inc., stuck with too much warehouse capacity now that the surge in pandemic-era shopping has faded …
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| Eva Szalay / Financial Times: |
BNP Paribas joins JPMorgan's blockchain-based Onyx Digital Assets network, which has facilitated $300B+ in intraday repurchase market deals since December 2020 — BNP Paribas joins JPMorgan-powered platform that has traded more $300bn of intraday repo deals
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PYMNTS.com, CryptoSlate, CoinDesk, Off to Lunch, Cryptonews, Blockworks, and Coinspeaker
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| TechCrunch: |
Sources: MainStreet, which helps SMBs find tax credits, is raising at a $200M valuation, down from $500M in March 2021, weeks after laying off ~30% of its staff — Weeks after laying off about 30% of its staff, MainStreet is said to be raising another round of funding at a $200 million valuation, sources tell TechCrunch.| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
StepN, a Solana-based app that lets users earn tokens by walking and running, says it has 2M-3M MAUs and makes $3M-5M per day in net profit from trading fees — But skeptics question its sustainability and whether it can be called a ‘game’ — Since its launch in December, StepN …
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