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NFT marketplace OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer says the company laid off ~20% of employees; OpenSea didn't disclose the number impacted but said that 230 staff remain — - NFT marketplace major OpenSea announced layoffs on Thursday. — CEO Devin Finzer said in a statement that “~20% of our team” had been let go.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
MacBook Air M2 review: thinner with a better screen and webcam, but gets warm and throttles aggressively under intense workloads; base model has a slower SSD — New design, new display, new processor, new price — After 14 years, three revisions, and two different processor architectures …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stripe, last valued by private investors at $95B, told staff it cut its internal share price by 28%, lowering those shares' implied valuation to $74B — Payments processor was last valued at $95 billion — Payments giant Stripe last valued by private investors at $95 billion …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google releases Chrome OS Flex, a Chrome OS version for businesses and schools to run on 400+ old PC and Mac models, after fixing 600+ bugs since February 2022 — Businesses and schools can now install Chrome OS on existing hardware — Google is releasing Chrome OS Flex today …
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Circle releases a detailed, but unaudited, breakdown of its reserve assets for USDC, showing $42.1B in short-term US government bonds and $13.6B in cash — The asset breakdown comes at a time when crypto firms and their finances are under increasing scrutiny in the ongoing crypto credit crisis.| Paul Krugman / New York Times: |
Regulators should crack down on crypto, after it gained an illusion of respectability through association with high-status institutions and individuals — When the Federal Reserve speaks, it speaks in Fedspeak. A pithy turn of phrase or a striking metaphor can all too easily turn into a headline …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: activist investor Elliott Management told Pinterest that it has built a 9%+ stake in the company in recent months; the stock jumps 15%+ after hours — Activist investor, which has built up a stake of over 9%, has been in discussions with social-media company
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| Uday Sampath / Reuters: |
Adobe: US online sales during Amazon's Prime Day jumped 8.5% YoY to nearly $12B; Prime members bought 300M+ items, or 100K products per minute — U.S. online sales during Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) Prime Day shopping event jumped 8.5% from last year to nearly $12 billion …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Intel told customers it will raise prices on most of its CPUs and peripheral chips in autumn due to rising costs; source: prices could rise up to 20% — Customers told move is a response to cost pressures — Intel flagged future “targeted” price rises when it presented its last quarterly earnings in April.
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| Lucy Harley-McKeown / The Block: |
Los Angeles-based Merkle Manufactory, which is developing a “sufficiently decentralized” social network protocol called Farcaster, has raised $30M led by a16z — - Merkle Manufactory has raised $30 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: total revenue generated by non-game apps hit ~$3.4B in Q2 2022 on the US App Store, surpassing mobile games, which hit ~$3.3B, for the first time — A major shift in the U.S. app economy has just taken place. In the second quarter of this year, U.S. consumer spending … | Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Meta says Facebook is testing a way for users to create up to five profiles linked to one account and that switching between profiles will require only two taps — The social network says users will be able to add up to five profiles to their Facebook account. — Queenie Wong
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The alumni of Colombian last-mile delivery unicorn Rappi have founded 100+ startups in under seven years, outpacing even the PayPal Mafia in startup creation — The Colombian unicorn's alumni are outpacing the PayPal mafia in startup creation. — • BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
You.com, an AI-powered search engine that offers built-in apps, like search tools for Twitter, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $45M — There's a growing appetite for alternative search engines. At least, that's the crux of the argument Richard Socher, the former chief scientist at Salesforce, likes to make.| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Celsius has a $1.19B deficit on its balance sheet, ~$4.3B in assets against $5.5B in liabilities, and lost 35K ether due to StakeHound misplacing keys — Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network Ltd. disclosed more details on its collapse, including that it has a $1.19 billion deficit on its balance sheet.
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| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Meta releases its first annual human rights report, covering 2020 and 2021 due diligence and summarizing a controversial human rights impact assessment of India — Facebook-owner Meta (META.O) released its first annual human rights report on Thursday, following years of accusations …
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| Ed Shanahan / New York Times: |
A federal jury convicts Vault 7 leaker Joshua Schulte on nine counts, two years after a previous jury failed to agree on eight of the 10 charges he faced then — The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan said Joshua Schulte had engaged in “one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history.”| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Instagram adds more features to its paid subscriptions test for creators, including the ability to publish feed posts that are only visible to subscribers — Pay up — or you won't see these exclusive photos or Reels — After getting off to a small start with paid subscriptions …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ is likely to reject Alphabet's concessions and file an antitrust lawsuit in the coming weeks over Google's dominance of the online ad market — The US Justice Department is likely to reject concessions offered by Alphabet Inc., clearing the way for an antitrust lawsuit …
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SiliconANGLE and Reuters
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon has started reducing its white label products and mulled exiting the business altogether, amid poor sales and mounting regulatory pressure — Executives also have discussed exiting the business entirely to address regulatory pressure — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 0.21%▲ …
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