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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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As Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, cyberattacks from China and Russia increased on the island; some 7-11 store TVs displayed “Warmonger Pelosi, get out of Taiwan!” — As U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a brief visit to Taiwan this week that enraged Beijing …
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| Bloomberg: |
BlackRock partners with Coinbase to help institutional investors manage and trade crypto, starting with BTC, using BlackRock's Aladdin system; COIN jumps 10%+ — BlackRock Inc. is partnering with Coinbase Global Inc. to make it easier for institutional investors to manage and trade Bitcoin … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Meta begins rolling out NFT support on Instagram in 100 countries after launching Coinbase Wallet and Dapper integrations and support for the Flow blockchain — Following a series of testing phases, NFT integration is now live on Instagram across 100 countries.
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| Phuong Nguyen / Reuters: |
Some Samsung workers at a major smartphone factory in Vietnam say business is not good and the company is cutting production, as global electronics demand slows — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has scaled back production at its massive smartphone plant in Vietnam, employees say …
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Because Elon Musk was acquiring Twitter as an individual, experts say Twitter subpoenaing his friends and advisers could yield decisive information for its case — Social-media company's legal team seeks communications from Tesla CEO's financial backers, investors and friends
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta is selling US corporate bonds for the first time; source: the bond sale may be between $8B and $10B, in as many as four parts — Meta Platforms Inc., one of the few S&P 500 companies without debt, is selling $10 billion in its first ever corporate bond sale as its cash flow and stock price fall.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at the Microsoft Offensive Research & Security Engineering team, which internally promotes safe coding practices to reduce bugs in the company's software — What's it like to be responsible for a billion people's digital security? Just ask the company's Morse researchers.| Reuters: |
Sources: Tencent plans to raise its stake in Ubisoft to become its single largest shareholder, after buying a 5% stake in 2018; Ubisoft's stock price jumps 10%+ — Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) plans to raise its stake in French video game group Ubisoft Entertainment SA (UBIP.PA) … | 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.| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
Investor letter: Tiger Global's long-only fund ended Q2 2022 down 63.6% and its flagship fund fell 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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Sources: Intel and Italy are close to clinching a deal initially worth $5B to build an advanced semiconductor packaging and assembly plant in the country — Italy is close to clinching a deal initially worth $5 billion with Intel (INTC.O) to build an advanced semiconductor packaging …
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| Bloomberg: |
B2B payments provider Plastiq plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a ~$480M valuation; Plastiq's current CEO and management will continue to lead the company — Payments provider Plastiq Inc. has agreed to go public via a merger with Joseph Sambuco's blank-check firm.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests an update to Spaces with thematic audio stations and a personalized audio digest; the company said an announcement is coming but didn't say when — Twitter is developing an updated version of its audio chat rooms product known as Spaces, TechCrunch learned and Twitter confirmed.
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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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