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| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
An unknown attacker has been emptying Solana and USDC wallets; Solscan says over 15,000 wallets have been affected, draining $4.46M, primarily in SOL and USDC — An unknown attacker drained thousands of wallets containing at least $4 million worth of Solana and USDC late Tuesday night.
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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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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
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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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| 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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| 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.
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| 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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| 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: |
Nintendo misses with Q1 sales down 4.7% YoY to ~$2.3B and operating profit down 15.1% YoY to ~$763M; Switch sales fell 22.9% YoY to 3.43M — Nintendo Co. reported worse-than-expected first-quarter earnings on Wednesday as a weaker yen failed to offset declining hardware and software sales.
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| Financial Times: |
Source: Meta Global Affairs President Nick Clegg is partly relocating to London for personal reasons, splitting his schedule between California and the UK — Global affairs chief will split his time between UK and California as social media group embraces remote leadership
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| 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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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Uber partners with Berlin-based travel service Omio to test train and coach bookings via its app in the UK, using Omio's inventory across 1,000+ providers — Uber is testing adding train and coach travel to its app in the UK so customers can book longer distance ground travel via … | Leen Al-Rashdan / Bloomberg: |
Dubai-based buy now, pay later startup Tabby raised $150M in debt from Atalaya Capital and Partners for Growth, bringing its total funding to $275M — Sign up for our Middle East newsletter and follow us @middleeast for news on the region. — Dubai-based buy now, pay later startup Tabby …
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| Martin Peers / Bloomberg: |
Apple's secrecy around its Services revenue, up 12% YoY in Q3 but down from a 25% average in the four previous quarters, shows why investors need more insight — Analyzing Apple's earnings can, on occasion, feel like looking at a jigsaw puzzle with some of the pieces missing.| 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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