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| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
An unknown attacker has been emptying Solana and USDC wallets; blockchain audit firm OtterSec says 5K+ Solana wallets “have been drained in the past few hours” — An unknown attacker drained thousands of wallets containing at least $4 million worth of Solana and USDC late Tuesday night.
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Tweets: @phantom, @0xfoobar, @solanastatus, @magiceden, @solanastatus, @solporttom, @cz_binance, @lyu_johnny, @justinbarlow, @solanastatus, @milesdeutscher, @justin_bons, @solbigbrain, @thisisnuse, @officer_cia, @top7ico, @naeper, @coinbureau, @nftpeasant, @justinsuntron, @justinbarlow, and @web3isgreat
| Brian Newar / Cointelegraph: |
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| Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood plans to cut its headcount by ~23% over “additional deterioration of the macro environment”, after laying off ~9% of full-time employees in April 2022 — The job cuts mark the second round of layoffs for the online brokerage, which exploded in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Robinhood reports Q2 revenue down 44% YoY to $318M, vs $321M est., a $295M net loss, down from $502M YoY, and MAUs down 1.9M QoQ to 14M in June 2022 — - Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said the company will reduce its headcount by about 23%. — The company also dropped its second-quarter earnings report …
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| Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: |
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor steps down and takes executive chairman role “to focus more on our bitcoin acquisition strategy”; president Phong Le named CEO — - Michael Saylor is set to step down from his role as CEO and become an executive chairman.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets with TSMC chairman Mark Liu and others to discuss implementation of the Chips and Science Act during her Taiwan visit — TAIPEI — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Taiwan's most important chip industry leaders in Taipei on Wednesday as part …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator shrinks its Summer cohort to nearly 250 companies, down 40% from 414 in its Winter cohort, due to the downturn in the economy and VC environment — Technically, the accelerator is more exclusive now — Y Combinator says it has intentionally shrunk the number of startups within its accelerator for the Summer 2022 batch.
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Tweets: @nmasc_, @nmasc_, @brianroemmele, @robustus, and @ulonnaya
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
NPD Group: US consumer spending on video game products fell 13% YoY to $12.35B in Q2 2022; non-mobile subscription content was Q2's only segment that saw growth — The video game industry growth has slowed down — US consumer spending on video game products has fallen by $1.78 billion in Q2, according to market research firm NPD.
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Match Group says Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg is leaving after less than a year, reorganizes the app's management team, and ends Tinder's crypto and metaverse plans — Dating giant Match Group announced a series of changes to Tinder's management team alongside the announcement of disappointing second-quarter earnings on Tuesday.
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Tweets: @sameepa, @jbursz, and @mrinaldesai
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
A US jury finds a former T-Mobile store owner guilty of hacking T-Mobile staff to access internal tools that he used to unlock customers' phones, raking in $25M — Argishti Khudaverdyan was found guilty of various offenses after he stole login credentials from more than 50 different T-Mobile employees across the US.| Zhiyuan Sun / Cointelegraph: |
Nansen: users spent ~$2.7B worth of ether to mint NFTs in H1 2022; 50.7% of the ETH raised stayed with the NFT projects and 45.7% went to non-entity wallets — Over 1 million unique wallet addresses were involved in the minting process, signaling that nonfungible token market activity remained strong.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Zomato appoints four CEOs to lead each of its key business units Zomato, Blinkit, Hyperpure, and Feeding India and plans to rename itself Eternal — Zomato Ltd., the Indian food-delivery company that went public last year, is appointing chief executive officers to lead …
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Tweets: @ron_miller, @johnreddyk, @chandrarsrikant, and @sub8u
| CNBC: |
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 70% YoY to $6.6B, vs $6.53B est., including Data Center segment sales up 83% YoY to $1.5B and Client segment sales up 25% YoY to $2.2B — - AMD reported earnings for the quarter ending in June that beat estimates. — The company gave a forecast for the current quarter …
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Tweets: @ryanreith, @patrickmoorhead, @greengart, @neiltwitz, @bobodtech, @marketrebels, @manpreetkailon, @iancutress, @benbajarin, @cnbc, @investorvideos, and @neiltwitz
| Wall Street Journal: |
Equifax says it fixed a “technology coding issue” that sources say sent lenders faulty credit scores on millions of US consumers from mid-March to early April — During a three-week period this year, Equifax sent faulty scores to lenders, resulting in higher interest rates and denied applications
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Tweets: @adam_k_levin, @amacker, @buchelisabeth, @beardywheat, and @amacker
| BetaKit: |
Chicago-based market research service Tegus acquires Vancouver and NYC-based financial data and analytics startup Canalyst, sources say for CAD$400M to CAD$500M — Sources say deal is north of $400 million CAD. — Vancouver and New York-based capital markets data and analytics startup Canalyst … | Sofia Pitt / CNBC: |
Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $2.1B, vs $2.11B est., $379M net income, up from a loss of $68M YoY, and a $2B stock buyback program — - Revenue jumped 58% year-over-year to $2.1 billion helping to drive the company's most profitable second quarter to date.Sponsor Posts
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