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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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Tweets: @0xfoobar, @phantom, @solanastatus, @peckshieldalert, @magiceden, @solanastatus, @aeyakovenko, @solporttom, @milesdeutscher, @cz_binance, @solanastatus, @solanastatus, @justinbarlow, @stevekovach, @solanastatus, @lyu_johnny, @officer_cia, @aeyakovenko, @nftpeasant, @justin_bons, @coinbureau, @liron, @hosseeb, @buccocapital, @justinsuntron, @top7ico, @mattdesl, @matthew_d_green, @justinbarlow, @naeper, @silvermanjacob, @web3isgreat, @solbigbrain, and @thisisnuse
| 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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Tweets: @ronlieber, @rmac18, @menlobear, @michelezanini, @bullandbaird, @ahcastor, @carnage4life, @steveclapham, @seldo, @seldo, @quinnypig, and @carlquintanilla
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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Tweets: @carnage4life, @chriskeall, and @karaswisher
| 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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| Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
Textbook publisher Pearson plans to turn its e-books into NFTs so the company can profit from secondhand sales — The chief executive officer of Pearson Plc, one of the world's largest textbook publishers, said he hopes technology like non-fungible tokens and the blockchain could help …
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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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Tweets: @jbursz, @sameepa, @mrinaldesai, and @mikebutcher
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Chiliz, which owns digital fan token service Socios, buys a 24.5% stake in soccer club Barcelona's Barça Studios for $100M and will help expand Web3 offerings — Chiliz has acquired a 24.5% stake in Barca Studios, the Spanish soccer giant's digital-content creation arm.
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Socios.com, FC Barcelona, Decrypt, Channel NewsAsia, BeInCrypto, ESPN.com, Bitcoinist.com, and Bitcoin News
Tweets: @fcbarcelona, @socios, @socios, @josephmdurso, @samuelmarsden, @josephmdurso, @graemebailey, @josephmdurso, @uglygame, and @wublockchain
| Jessica Klein / Input: |
An interview with Bored Ape Yacht Club creators Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow on BuzzFeed “doxxing” them, Yuga Labs, the future of BAYC, Otherside, and more — The evening of February 4, business partners Greg Solano, 33, and Wylie Aronow, 35, were at their respective homes …
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BanklessDAO Italia. Tweets: @nickchilds, @inputmag, @taylorlorenz, @ethangach, @jiwilde, @markyarm, @inputmag, and @inputmag
| 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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The Information, The Economic Times, and Tech in Asia
Tweets: @nmasc_, @nmasc_, @brianroemmele, @robustus, and @ulonnaya
| 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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Tweets: @henrymance, @muradahmed, @aulia, and @daaronovitch
| 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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Tweets: @6d6f636869 and @mattsainsb
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Thoma Bravo plans to acquire enterprise identity management service Ping Identity in an all-cash $2.8B deal; Ping reported $72M in Q2 revenue, below estimates — After a tough few months in the markets for Ping Identity, the enterprise identity management company today announced a big move …
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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.| Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
Due to concerns over cloud computing costs, some companies are shifting their data and ML models to on-premises servers and investing in hybrid infrastructure — A quick-service restaurant chain is running its AI models on machines inside its stores to localize delivery logistics.
Tweets: @tariqkrim and @counternotions
| Kate Beioley / Financial Times: |
In a U-turn, the UK's CMA provisionally agrees to the $8B merger between Avast and NortonLifeLock, citing “significant competition” from McAfee and others — Avast shares rise more than 40% after CMA provisionally agrees $8bn merger with US rival
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| 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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Moneycontrol, Reuters, The Economic Times, Livemint, Business Today, MediaNama, Telegraph India, The New Indian Express, and Entrackr
Tweets: @ron_miller, @johnreddyk, @chandrarsrikant, and @sub8u
| 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.| 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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Tweets: @matpiscatella, @benjisales, @bahlivern, @boundarybreak, @necksplitter, @mavriqgg, @paultassi, @zeuslfc, @legacykillahd, and @tomwarren
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Aisera, which is developing an AI-based customer service requests system, raised a $90M Series D led by Goldman Sachs and Thoma Bravo — Aisera Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered “service experience” startup that aims to enhance employee and customer experiences …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Aisera
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