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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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Tweets: @carlquintanilla, @carnage4life, @lex_node, @silvermanjacob, @carnage4life, @wsjmarkets, and @seldo
| 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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| Brian Newar / Cointelegraph: |
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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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Tweets: @saylor, @wublockchain, @concodanomics, @cryptowhale, and @kenziesigalos
| 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.| Washington Post: |
Sources: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to meet with TSMC chairman Mark Liu to discuss implementation of the Chips and Science Act during her Taiwan visit — TSMC is building a chip factory in Arizona — and considering constructing several on the site — in a project seen as key to U.S. national security
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| 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.
Tweets: @mrinaldesai
| 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 growth category — 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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Tweets: @matpiscatella, @benjisales, @bahlivern, @boundarybreak, @necksplitter, @mavriqgg, @zeuslfc, @legacykillahd, and @tomwarren
| 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.| 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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| 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.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are rethinking their China exposure after the US Chips and Science Act, which has qualified “guardrails” against China expansion — Leading Korean chipmakers re-evaluate further Chinese investments in response to Washington restrictions
Tweets: @muradahmed and @leilamechoui
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Nikkei Asia, Protocol, Tom Merritt Tech Newsletter, TechSpot, Appuals.com, and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @chinabeigebook, @nikkeiasia, and @pstasiatech
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Source: Uber plans to sell its 7.8% stake in Indian food delivery startup Zomato for $350M+ after assuming an unrealized $707M loss on the investment in H2 2022 — Uber plans to sell its 7.8% holding in Indian food delivery firm Zomato as early as Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.| Sofia Pitt / CNBC: |
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| 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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Bloomberg, CBS News, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @wsj, @buchelisabeth, @adam_k_levin, @amacker, @beardywheat, and @amacker
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Samsung launches its iFixit repair program, covering Galaxy S20, S21, and Tab S7+ devices; S22 flagships are not supported and the number of repairs are limited — But not its latest phones and tablets — Samsung and Fixit have launched their repair program that lets Galaxy S20, S21 …
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Samsung Newsroom, iFixit News, iFixit News, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, TechRadar, MobileSyrup, How-To Geek, PCMag, Engadget, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, and ZDNet
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
A CJEU ruling in a Lithuanian case involving use of sensitive personal data could have implications for online platforms that use background tracking for ads — A ruling put out yesterday by the European Union's top court could have major implications for online platforms that use background tracking …
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Court of Justice of the EU. Tweets: @gabrielazanfir, @cbridge_chief, @paulbernaluk, @lukolejnik, @cbridge_chief, @gabrielazanfir, and @coolharsh55
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