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| Changpeng Zhao / @cz_binance: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the company signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire FTX.com and help cover its liquidity crunch, pending due diligence — This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire FTX.com and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days.
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| Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
In a message to staff, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says withdrawals on FTX.com are “effectively paused” after FTX saw ~$6B of net withdrawals in 72 hours — Crypto exchange FTX saw around $6 billion of withdrawals in the 72 hours before Tuesday morning, according to a message …
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
FTX's FTT token drops below $5, down ~80% in the past 24 hours, as crypto investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda Research — The FTT price has declined nearly 14% over the past 24 hours, with Solana's SOL and Serum's SRM taking losses along with bigger cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether.
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| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
How Binance exacerbated a bank run on FTX before offering to acquire the company, and why the potential deal represents a meteoric fall for Sam Bankman-Fried — Binance, after exacerbating a bank run on rival crypto exchange FTX, offered to buy out the jewel in SBF's crown. — By Daniel KuhnLayer 2
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter plans to label select accounts “Official” when the new Blue launches; not all previously verified accounts will get the label, which won't be for sale — Twitter is rolling out another type of check mark to help distinguish accounts that users actually need to know are real.
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission opens an in-depth investigation into Microsoft's proposed $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets a March 23 decision deadline — Microsoft Corp.'s proposed $69 billion takeover of games developer Activision Blizzard Inc. faces an in-depth European Union probe …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff that layoffs begin on November 9, he is accountable for missteps, and his overoptimism about growth led to overstaffing — Meta Platforms Inc. will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told hundreds of executives on Tuesday.
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Research suggests Apple collects data about iPhone usage even when the iPhone Analytics setting to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether” is off — For all of Apple's talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Disney hit 235.7M global streaming subscribers in its Q4, above Netflix's 223.1M in its Q3; Disney+ had 164.2M subscribers, Hulu had 47.2M, and ESPN+ had 24.3M — Disney reported results for the final quarter of its 2022 fiscal year today, revealing a total of 164.2 million Disney+ global subscribers …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: turnover has hindered Apple's search for a new head of product design, leaving few obvious candidates for a department still in Jony Ive's shadow — Turnover at Apple Inc. has hindered efforts to replace the head of product design, leaving a gaping hole at the helm of a prominent team that's … | Kollen Post / The Block: |
The SEC wins its lawsuit arguing that decentralized publishing platform LBRY's token is subject to regulatory oversight, in a blow to crypto token issuance — - A New Hampshire district court has ruled against decentralized publishing platform LBRY in a legal battle with the SEC.
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| Jon Keegan / The Markup: |
A look at data brokers selling “comprehensive” profiles of potential voters to campaigns, including phone geolocation data gleaned from real-time auctions — Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Zoom releases Mail and Calendar clients in beta as part of its Zoom One interface, announces an AI-powered Zoom Virtual Agent chatbot coming in 2023, and more — Available as a beta release, the Outlook-like Mail and Calendar will slot neatly into the company's new unified Zoom …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo reports Q2 operating profit of ~$809M, up from ~$685M YoY, thanks to a weakened yen, and cuts its fiscal year Switch sales forecast by 10% to 19M — Nintendo Co. shares fell as much as 6% on Wednesday after the company cut its fiscal-year forecast for Switch console sales by 10% to 19 million.
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: corporate diplomacy in China let Apple evade the tech crackdown and profit more than local tech giants, but exposes the company to supply chain shocks — The most profitable tech company operating in China is not a homegrown internet giant such as Alibaba or Tencent, but California-based Apple.| Kollen Post / The Block: |
The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control adds a designation to Tornado Cash that ties the crypto mixer to North Korea's nuclear weapons program — - The Treasury has re-designated Tornado Cash, tying the decentralized crypto mixer to North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
As Twitter's problems mount, Elon Musk is tweeting 25+ times per day in November, up from ~13 times per day in April 2022 — The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify his actions. — Ryan Mac, who is based in Los Angeles, writes about accountability in the technology industry.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google and Renault announce plans to build a “software-defined vehicle” on Android Automotive; Renault picks Google Cloud as its “preferred cloud provider” — This “software-defined vehicle” will be built on Google's Android Automotive operating system and send data …
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