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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
DuckDuckGo confirms a researcher's findings that its browser allows some Microsoft trackers on third-party sites, citing a Microsoft search content agreement — The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, its fourth and largest so far, allocating about $1.5B for seed investments and $3B for venture investments — Venture capital group launches its largest fund to date focused on digital assets despite market downturn
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Leaked video: Apple SVP of Retail + People Deirdre O'Brien tells employees that joining a union would make it harder for Apple to improve working conditions — In an internal video circulated among Apple's 58,000 retail employees, Apple's vice-president of retail suggested that a union …
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Encrypted email service ProtonMail rebrands itself as Proton, and unifies its calendar, storage, and VPN products under Free, Mail Plus, and Unlimited plans — For the privacy-minded, ProtonMail has been one of the better options for secure email — you can get an (admittedly basic) …
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| Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News: |
After actor and producer Seth Green lost four NFTs to a phishing scam, his show based on his stolen Bored Ape NFT is in doubt; OpenSea says it froze the NFTs — Actor and producer Seth Green was robbed of several NFTs this month after succumbing to a phishing scam that inadvertently threw …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Jack Dorsey is leaving Twitter's board of directors, effective today — Jack Dorsey is leaving the board of Twitter, effective today. The move had been telegraphed last fall, when he stepped down as the social media company's CEO.
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| Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg: |
Luminar hires CJ Moore, a manager on Apple's car project who joined in August 2021 from Tesla where he was an Autopilot director, to lead software development — Luminar Technologies Inc. said it hired CJ Moore, a manager on Apple Inc.'s car project and a former director for Autopilot projects …
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Tweets: @markgurman, @jotrader4, @markgurman, @tailosivetech, and @sawyermerritt
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google starts rolling out ads in YouTube Shorts globally and says advertisers will be able to make their video ads on Shorts more shoppable later in 2022 — Google is starting to gradually roll out ads in YouTube Shorts around the world, the company announced at its Marketing Live event this week.| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Do Kwon's proposal to relaunch the Terra blockchain passes with 65.5% of the governance vote; Terra 2.0 is set to go live on Friday without the UST stablecoin — Quick Take — Do Kwon's proposal to relaunch the Terra blockchain has passed. — In total, 65.5% of votes supported the proposal.
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Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Terra Research Forum, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Bitcoinist.com, Protocol, The Guardian, CNBC, ZyCrypto, Ethereum World News, CoinQuora, and Blockworks
Tweets: @binance, @peterrojas, @wublockchain, @silvermanjacob, @edzitron, @route2fi, @caseynewton, @danielsingers, @silvermanjacob, @ashwsbreal, and @adamsinger
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Meta's attempt to shore up investor support for long-term VR bets by copying TikTok, including pushing Facebook and Instagram creators to use Reels — Last year an Instagram representative contacted Justina Sharp, a 24-year-old with 93,000 followers, and asked for a meeting to discuss ways she could expand her audience.
Tweets: @jason_kint, @munster_gene, @mattnavarra, @daveyalba, and @bradstone
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
A look at Google's renewed push into e-commerce, led by SVP Prabhakar Raghavan, positioning itself as a kind of anti-Amazon, which has long dominated the sector — Google executive Prabhakar Raghavan recently had an issue with his rose bushes. His wife took a photo of the plants on her phone …
Tweets: @edbott, @mhbergen, @sarahfrier, @mhbergen, and @mhbergen
| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: popular Python library “ctx” and PHP package “phpass” have been compromised to steal developer environment variables like AWS keys and credentials — PyPI module ‘ctx’ that gets downloaded over 20,000 times a week has been compromised in a software supply chain attack …
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sockpuppets, TechRadar, Sonatype Blog, python-security.readthedocs.io, IT PRO, iTnews, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @s0md3v, @theprincessxena, @sanjaykatkar, @tomlawrencetech, and @gossithedog
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Ripple's CEO says the company will explore an IPO once its lawsuit with the SEC ends and that its cross-border payments volume was up 700% YoY to $8B in Q1 2022 — - Ripple will explore the possibility of an initial public offering once its lawsuit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ended … | Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
StarkWare, which makes two scaling platforms for Ethereum, raises a $100M Series D led by Greenoaks and Coatue at an $8B valuation, up from $2B in November 2021 — The blockchain scaling solution last raised funds in November at a $2 billion valuation. — StarkWare Industries …
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TechCrunch, Blockworks, Bloomberg, The Block, Crypto Briefing, The Defiant, Forbes, CTech, and Cointelegraph
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Hong Kong-based Babel Finance, which offers crypto asset management tools, raises an $80M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $120M — Despite recent swings in cryptocurrency values, many institutional investors appear undeterred. The growth of Babel Finance …
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Tech in Asia, FinSMEs, Blockworks, PR Newswire, and Cryptopolitan
| CNBC: |
Twitter shareholders have voted to remove Egon Durban, co-CEO of Silver Lake, from its board; Durban is a long-time business associate and backer of Elon Musk — - A Twitter spokesperson told CNBC that Egon Durban “has tendered his resignation” from the board, but that the board has to decide whether to accept it.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon opens its first physical clothing store, Amazon Style, near LA; shoppers scan items with an app and get them at checkout in their desired size and color — Amazon.com Inc. is opening its first physical clothing store on Wednesday, the latest brick-and-mortar initiative from the world's largest online retailer.
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Tweets: @tomaxwell and @quinnypig
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