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Twitter sues Elon Musk, in Delaware's Court of Chancery, to force him to complete his $44B acquisition of the company, as he “refuses to honor his obligations” — The question of whether Elon Musk must buy Twitter, as he agreed to do in April, is headed to a court in Delaware.
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Sources: Apple ends its consulting agreement with Jony Ive that made Apple his firm's primary client and limited Ive from taking on work Apple found competitive — Three years after promising to work “long into the future” with the man behind its candy-colored computers, Apple and Mr. Ive are through.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A critique of Ev Williams' 10-year tenure at Medium and how it got caught in the middle between Substack and well-funded publishers like BuzzFeed and Vice — How Medium got stuck in the middle. PLUS: Twitter sues Musk — Few tech CEOs can claim to have steered the course of online conversation more than Ev Williams.
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| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
Medium founder Ev Williams is stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by Coach.me CEO Tony Stubblebine; Williams plans to start a new holding company/research lab — Mr. Williams, the company's founder and a co-founder of Twitter and Blogger, said in a post that he planned to start a new holding company and research lab.
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| Fortune: |
Lightspeed Venture Partners raised $6.6B across three US funds and $500M for an India and Southeast Asia fund, and debuts a team to back blockchain founders — This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| Shivani Tanna / Reuters: |
Vermont's Department of Financial Regulation joins a multistate investigation into Celsius and says it believes the cryptocurrency lender is “deeply insolvent” — July 12 (Reuters) - Vermont's Department Of Financial Regulation on Tuesday said troubled crypto lender Celsius is …
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| The Verge: |
Memo: Sundar Pichai told employees that Google will slow hiring in the rest of 2022 and will have to work with “greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger” — ‘Greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger’ — Google has told employees that it'll be …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
The leaders of Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google, and 500+ business, education, and nonprofit companies urge US states to boost computer science education — More than 500 business, education and nonprofit leaders have teamed with Seattle-based computer education nonprofit Code.org …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says a phishing campaign targeted 10K+ organizations since September 2021 by hijacking Office 365's authentication process even on accounts using MFA — Campaign that steals email has targeted at least 10,000 organizations since October. — On Tuesday, Microsoft detailed …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
In Germany, South Korea, and other countries, BMW starts selling subscriptions or charging one-time fees to unlock heated seats, engine sound options, and more — The auto industry is racing towards a future full of microtransactions — BMW is now selling subscriptions for heated seats …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Google says YouTube TV has 5M+ subscribers, including free trial users, making it the US' biggest internet pay TV provider and fifth-largest TV distributor — Google says YouTube TV has surpassed 5 million accounts — making it the U.S.'s biggest internet-based pay TV service.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The Magic Leap 2 mixed reality headset is coming on September 30 with a lighter, smaller design and a wider FoV, starting at $3,299, ~$1K more than Magic Leap 1 — About $1,000 more than the original — The Magic Leap 2 headset is launching on September 30th for a starting price of $3,299.| J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify acquires Heardle, describing the music trivia game inspired by Wordle as a “tool for musical discovery”, and plans to keep it as a standalone site — The game, which challenges users to identify a song based on short audio clips, will remain free to play for users.
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| Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk, in replies to a Breitbart tweet about Trump calling him a “bullshit artist”, says Trump should “hang up his hat” and DeSantis would easily beat Biden — Former president had mocked the Tesla boss's attempt to take over Twitter
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| Peter White / Deadline: |
HBO and HBO Max receive 140 Emmy nominations, while Netflix gets 105, Hulu 58, Apple TV+ 52, Disney+ 34, Amazon 30, and broadcast network TV a new low of 86 — The Emmy nomination battle between HBO and Netflix took a new turn this morning with the Warner Bros. Discovery company soaring past its streaming rival.
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| Bloomberg: |
PE firm Madison Dearborn acquires a majority stake in Unison, a software provider to the US government, from Carlyle; sources: the deal values Unison at $1B+ — Madison Dearborn Partners is acquiring a majority stake in software company Unison Software Inc. from fellow private equity firm Carlyle Group Inc.
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| Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Strider, which scours open-source data in China to identify technologies most at risk of being stolen and potential intellectual property thieves — Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has for decades been a hotbed of US nuclear experimentation.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
China approves publishing licenses for 67 more online game titles, its third batch in 2022, but Tencent and NetEase games again failed to make the list — China approved its third batch of new games this year, but Tencent Holdings Ltd. again failed to make the list, which traders watch … | Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Animoca Brands announces a $75.32M raise at a $5.9B valuation, the second tranche of its $360M round in January 2022 that valued the NFT company at $5.5B — The infusion is the second tranche of January's funding round, which nabbed almost $360 million and valued the investment company at $5.5 billion.
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