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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Interviews with 15 current and former female Apple staff reveal apathy or retaliation in seven departments across six US states in the face of misconduct claims — Megan Mohr was five years into her Apple career when, in 2013, a male colleague took advantage of her after a platonic night out drinking together.
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
The Solana Foundation says exploited addresses were “created, imported, or used” in Slope mobile wallets and there's “no evidence” the protocol was compromised — Private keys may have been inadvertently compromised as a Solana mobile wallet is fingered for the major network attack.
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| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to delay iPadOS 16 by about a month, partly due to work on its multitasking features, targeting an October release alongside macOS Ventura — Apple Inc. expects to delay its next major iPad software update by about a month, taking the unusual step of not releasing …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to shut down its Facebook Live Shopping feature on October 1, as the company shifts its focus to Reels on Facebook and Instagram — Facebook is shutting down its live shopping feature on October 1st to shift its focus to Reels, the company announced in a blog post.
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| Phuong Nguyen / Reuters: |
Samsung workers at a major smartphone factory in Vietnam say business is not good and the company is cutting back, as demand for electronics slows globally — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has scaled back production at its massive smartphone plant in Vietnam, employees say … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Alibaba beats with Q1 revenue flat YoY to $30.68B, as Cloud revenue rose 10% YoY to $2.6B, and $3.3B net income; NYSE-listed stock rises 5%+ — - Alibaba reported fiscal first-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat expectations, sending shares higher. — In the quarter …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Data.ai: users spend 4+ hours in mobile apps daily in 13 markets, including the US, the UK, Japan, and India, and 5+ hours in Indonesia, Singapore, and Brazil — Although the mobile app boom driven by pandemic lockdowns has long since passed, consumers' mobile usage is still growing.| Bloomberg: |
BlackRock partners with Coinbase to help institutional investors manage and trade crypto, starting with BTC, using BlackRock's Aladdin system; COIN jumps 25%+ — BlackRock Inc. is partnering with Coinbase Global Inc. to make it easier for institutional investors to manage and trade Bitcoin …
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| Chainalysis: |
Analysis: $2B in crypto has been stolen from cross-chain bridges across 13 hacks in 2022 so far, accounting for 69% of total funds stolen — Following last night's exploit of the Nomad Bridge, Chainalysis estimates that $2 billion in cryptocurrency has been stolen from cross-chain bridges across 13 separate hacks so far this year.
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Decrypt, CoinDesk, Elliptic Connect, Cointelegraph, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @chainalysis, @czdaomaker, and @irinaberkon
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Activision Blizzard and NetEase scrapped a World of Warcraft mobile game after a financing dispute; sources: NetEase disbanded a team of 100+ developers — Activision Blizzard Inc. and NetEase Inc. have torpedoed a World of Warcraft smartphone game that had been in development for three years …
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Tel Aviv-based Talon, which is building an enterprise browser to help reduce data breaches, raised a $100M Series A led by Evolution Equity — Talon Cyber Security Ltd., the developer of a specialized browser designed to help enterprises reduce the risk of data breaches, today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding.
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FinSMEs, CTech, VentureBeat, SecurityWeek, Talon Cyber Security, and CRN
| Elias Leight / Billboard: |
SoundCloud cuts its global workforce by ~20% “due to a significant company transformation and the challenging economic and financial environment” — CEO Michael Weissman announced the cuts in an email, blaming them on “the challenging economic climate and financial market headwinds.”| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests an update to Spaces that introduces thematic audio stations and a personalized digest; an official announcement is some way off — Twitter is developing an updated version of its audio chat rooms product known as Spaces, TechCrunch learned and Twitter confirmed.
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Pocket-lint, iThinkDifferent, Android Headlines, Engadget, Social Media Today, iMore, and 9to5Mac
| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
Investor letter: Tiger Global's long-only fund ended Q2 down 63.6% and its flagship fund dropped 50% in H1, after it “underestimated the impact” of inflation — Chase Coleman's group sustains steep losses and admits it ‘underestimated’ effect of rising prices
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says it is closing its office in Hong Kong and “accelerating” its strategic partnership with Alibaba “to better serve the Greater China Region” — Salesforce is repositioning itself in China as it looks to expand the reach of its customer relationship management software in the country.
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South China Morning Post, PingWest, and Pandaily
Tweets: @jenniferxie12, @charlesmok, and @benjaminqiu
| Financial Times: |
SoftBank raised $22B in cash from deals that would sharply reduce its Alibaba stake over the coming years; SoftBank had a 23.9% stake in Alibaba as of mid-July — SoftBank has raised as much as $22bn in cash from deals that would sharply reduce its stake in Alibaba over the coming years …
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