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| Ben Munster / Decrypt: |
A look at the two-day Crypto Policy Symposium, the world's first conference for crypto skeptics, from policymakers and journalists to disillusioned programmers — The Crypto Policy Symposium in London was a historic gathering of crypto skeptics—and nobody tried to sell me anything.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Roblox plans to add age guidelines to its games and announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and more — And it's bringing digital billboards and age guidelines to do it — Roblox rode a wave of pandemic-era growth to a seven-fold value increase …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox CEO says the company has 2M+ DAUs in Russia, as rivals EA, Nintendo, Take-Two, Epic, Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Sony slowed or ceased sales in the country — Roblox Corp.'s popularity in Russia is increasing even as almost every other publicly traded gaming company has retreated from the country after its invasion of Ukraine.| The Verge: |
In a letter to Twitter, Elon Musk's legal team cites the company's ~$7M settlement with Peiter Zatko as a merger agreement violation and reason to end the deal — He sent a letter to Twitter on Friday — Elon Musk has sent a third letter to Twitter attempting to terminate his $44 billion acquisition of the company.| Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: |
Apple updates iOS 16's webpage to say iCloud Shared Photo Library is “coming later this year”, not September 12, and removed the feature in iOS 16's latest beta — Apple announced iCloud Shared Photo Library as part of iOS 16, but it appears that the feature won't arrive in the iOS 16 release on September 12.
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| Nathan Grayson / Washington Post: |
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins announces that from now on, he will simultaneously stream on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter — The mainstays of Twitch's ‘Fortnite’ era recently made big moves. The receptions were quite different.
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Sources: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, is in talks to raise $100M; Coatue proposed a $500M valuation and Lightspeed offered a $1B valuation — With the image generator Stable Diffusion, you can conjure within seconds a potrait of Beyoncé as if painted by Vincent van Gogh …
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| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Pinduoduo's net income more than tripled in Q2 2022 and its shares soared 43% over the past month, as the company emerges as a big winner amid China's lockdowns — As Chinese consumers curb their spending in a pandemic-stricken economy, one discount e-commerce firm is emerging as a clear stock-market winner.| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
Mint Mobile, US Mobile, and Boost Mobile say eSIM as the only option for US iPhone 14 models “democratizes connectivity” by letting users easily switch carriers — Mint Mobile, Boost Mobile and US Mobile see room for growth as eSIM technology could make switching networks even easier.| Matthew S. Burriesci / Meta: |
Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to make it harder for attackers to scrape unauthorized data — Takeaways — We changed how we use Facebook Identifiers (FBIDs) after we observed that unauthorized scraping often involves …
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| Axios: |
One-click checkout service Bolt is no longer acquiring crypto payments startup Wyre; the deal was worth ~$1.5B, the largest announced non-SPAC crypto merger — One-click checkout company Bolt is no longer acquiring Wyre, the crypto payments company that it had agreed to buy for about $1.5 billion back in April.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Regal, an outbound call and text messaging tools provider to brands, raised a $38.5M Series A led by Emergence Capital at a $350M post-money valuation — Getting prospective customers to answer sales calls and texts can feel like a Sisyphean task.
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