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Sources: Snap plans to start laying off ~20% of its 6,400+ employees on August 31, 2022 — Snap's stock price has declined nearly 80 percent this year — Snap is planning to lay off approximately 20 percent of its more than 6,400 employees, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Netflix hires two Snap executives to lead its ad-supported tier: Chief Business Officer Jeremi Gorman and VP of Sales for the Americas Peter Naylor — Snap's VP of ad sales is also leaving for Netflix — Netflix has found an executive to lead its plan for an ad-supported tier …
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Sources: Twitter was working to monetize its adult content with OnlyFans-style subscriptions until a “red team” noted the prevalence of CSAM on the platform — Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven't listened
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Google says it has not yet approved Truth Social's Play Store app due to insufficient content moderation; CEO Devin Nunes said the decision “is up to Google” — Google hasn't yet approved Truth Social's Android app for distribution via its Play Store because of insufficient content moderation …
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof announces a $50M Series A led by a16z, the NFT project Moonbirds Mythics launching in 2023, and a DAO to license Moonbirds' name — - Additional participants in the round include Collab+Currency, Flamingo DAO, SV Angel, VaynerFund and Seven Seven Six.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple debuts Xcode Cloud subscriptions for developers for up to $400/month; 25 compute hours per month is free until the end of 2023 and $15/month afterward — Apple today announced that developers can purchase subscriptions to Xcode Cloud, a continuous integration and delivery service that's built into the Xcode app.
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
In a first, Comcast and Charter both failed to grow internet subscribers in Q2 2022, as T-Mobile and Verizon roll out cheaper home internet powered by 5G — For years, Comcast and other cable companies have leaned on a simple strategy to offset the effects of cord-cutting …
Tweets: @dsilverman
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter releases its Circle feature out of beta on iOS, Android, and the web, letting users tweet to smaller, selected groups of up to 150 people — Twitter is launching its Circle feature — which lets you post a tweet to a select set of people — globally.
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @jaysullivan, @oohjcs, @anildash, @monzo, @twittersafety, @si_hart, @lamarrwilson, @scalzi, @stevesi, @johnnyakzam, @twittersafety, @yoyoel, and @edbott
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Jon Peddie Research: discrete and integrated GPU sales fell 14.9% QoQ in Q2 2022; Nvidia's sales fell 25.7% QoQ, AMD's fell 7.6% QoQ, and Intel's fell 9.8% QoQ — Shipments of discrete desktop graphics cards down to two-year low. — Sales of graphics processing units — discrete and integrated … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Philadelphia-based delivery startup Gopuff seeks to borrow up to $300M after burning ~$400M in Q1 2022; Gopuff raised $2B+ at a $15B valuation in 2021 — Instant-delivery startup is negotiating a credit line of up to $300 million after delayed IPO
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Tweets: @karenkkwok, @gilmored85, @kevinroose, @brucewilson, @beveragepodcast, and @jstrauss
| Aditya Hadi Pratama / Tech in Asia: |
Indonesia-based ESB, which provides restaurant management tools including a POS system, kitchen operations software, and an ERP system, raised a $29M Series B — ESB, an Indonesian restaurant management platform, has raised US$29 million in its series B funding round led by Northstar Group and Alpha JWC Ventures.
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Everything SEA tech, TechNode Global, The SaaS News, and DealStreetAsia
Tweets: @acventures_id, @esb_indonesia, and @techinasia
| Jack Stebbins / CNBC: |
Royal Caribbean Cruises partners with SpaceX's Starlink to offer internet onboard all its ships; installations are scheduled to be completed in early 2023 — - Royal Caribbean Cruises will begin offering onboard internet via SpaceX's Starlink satellite network.
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BBC, PCMag, TechCrunch, Dow Jones Newswires, Space.com, TESLARATI, The Verge, Reuters, SpaceNews, and Insider
Tweets: @jcoviedo6, @thesheetztweetz, @emot, and @elonmusk
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 13 review: a small update, but 2022's second after March's tablet-focused 12L update, finally brings a task manager, notification permissions, and more — Android 13 is a very small update, but it's also the second one this year. — The Android update treadmill continues with the release of Android 13.| Jeffrey T. Lewis / MarketWatch: |
CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $535.2M, subscription revenue up 60% YoY to $506.2M, and subscription customers up 51% YoY to 19,686 — CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.'s loss narrowed in its second quarter from a year earlier after subscription revenue jumped higher.
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SiliconANGLE, CrowdStrike, Barron's Online, and CNBC
| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number or 8.5% originated from Pinterest — One of the biggest frustrations of text-to-image generation AI models is that they feel like a black box.
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GitHub and Towards Data Science
| Arno Maierbrugger / Investvine: |
Indonesia's largest tech company GoTo posts a ~$955M net loss for H1 2022 and announces the acquisition of local crypto exchange Kripto Maksima Koin for $8.4M — Indonesia's biggest e-commerce company GoTo on August 30 posted a half-year net loss of 14.17 trillion rupiah ($955 million) …
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GoTo, Channel NewsAsia, Nikkei Asia, DealStreetAsia, and Reuters
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Semiconductor shipments from South Korean chipmakers fell 22.7% YoY in July, the first drop in almost three years according to the national statistics office — South Korean chipmakers recorded their first fall in factory shipments in almost three years in July, highlighting weakening demand …
Tweets: @samkimasia
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