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Memo: Microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 employees through March 31, reducing its headcount by less than 5%, and take a $1.2B charge tied to severance and more — Citing a need to “align our cost structure with our revenue and where we see customer demand,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees Wednesday …
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The US Treasury's FinCEN unit labels crypto exchange Bitzlato as a “money laundering concern” related to Russian illicit finance; French police seize Bitzlato — The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on Wednesday said it has identified virtual …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on an iPad-based smart display with smart home controls, video, and FaceTime and on a new Apple TV for H1 2024 with a faster processor — Apple Inc. is working on a slate of devices aimed at challenging Amazon.com Inc. and Google in the smart-home market …
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Sources: Genesis creditors are negotiating a bankruptcy plan with the firm and weighing a one to two-year forbearance period in exchange for cash and DCG equity — - Genesis creditors are negotiating the terms of a possible Chapter 11 filing, according to sources close to the matter.| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Twitter's Q4 2022 revenue fell ~35% YoY to $1.025B, 72% of its Q4 goal; the company hopes to generate $732M in Q1 2023, which would be down 39% YoY — Twitter's fourth quarter revenue fell about 35% year over year to $1.025 billion, a top ad executive revealed at a staff meeting Wednesday … | Erin Woo / The Information: |
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| Addy Bink / The Hill: |
Amazon plans to close AmazonSmile, a program launched in 2013 to let customers donate 0.5% of eligible items' purchase prices to a charity, on February 20, 2023 — (NEXSTAR) - Amazon will be closing its charity program, AmazonSmile, in the coming weeks in order to “focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact.”
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple announces a second-generation HomePod with a similar design to the original from 2018, Matter support, S7 chip, and more, shipping on February 3 for $299 — It will be sold alongside the HomePod Mini, the smaller version of the speaker introduced in 2020, and features support …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Founders Fund sold off most of its cryptocurrency portfolio by the end of March 2022, before the crypto market crash, generating ~$1.8B in returns — Billionaire was early mainstream investor in the digital currency but VC fund no longer has significant exposure
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity firm Sophos lays off 10% of its global workforce and sources say ~450 employees were let go; Thoma Bravo acquired Sophos for $3.9B in March 2020 — Sophos is laying off about 10% of its global workforce, TechCrunch has learned. Sophos confirmed the layoffs in an email to TechCrunch.
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| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
Investigation: starting in November 2021, OpenAI contracted Kenya-based Sama workers to label violent, toxic, and sexual content for ~$2/hour to improve ChatGPT — Content warning: this story contains descriptions of sexual abuse — ChatGPT was hailed as one of 2022's …
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| Digiday: |
Similarweb: Twitter referral traffic to 12 major news outlets fell 12% on average from November 2022 to December 2022; only traffic to NY Post and Fox News grew — Under the leadership of Elon Musk, Twitter's role as a traffic referral source to publishers' sites is largely declining.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mailchimp says a hacker accessed data about 133 accounts via a staff social engineering attack, first detected on January 11 and its second breach in six months — Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers' data was exposed.
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| Jennifer Gollan / ProPublica: |
An analysis of 11 online pharmacies selling abortion pills: at least nine use third-party trackers such as Google Analytics to collect and share sensitive data — Some sites selling abortion pills use technology that shares information with third parties like Google.
Tweets: @jennifergollan, @cakitchener, @katienotopoulos, @robinmarty, and @propublica
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Andrew Bosworth talks about Meta's decision to discontinue the Portal and how it nearly made a deal to license Portal's tech and platform to Amazon in 2020 — Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth told BuzzFeed News how a deal to keep the Portal software going almost happened.| Nikhil Patwardhan / Moneycontrol: |
Walmart-backed Indian fintech company PhonePe raised $350M from General Atlantic at a $12B+ valuation, with plans to raise as much as $1B in tranches — With the valuation markup, PhonePe has become a decacorn or a startup valued at over $10 billion, joining the likes of Flipkart …
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| Keerthi Vedantam / Crunchbase News: |
New York-based Impel, an AI-powered customer engagement service for the auto industry, raised $104M led by Silversmith, bringing its total funding to $130M — Impel, the New York-based digital engagement startup, announced on Tuesday it secured $104 million in growth investment.| Alexandra Wexler / Wall Street Journal: |
FTX posed as a haven from tumbling currencies and inflation in Africa, where the company recruited users via glitzy events, $5 sign-up bonuses, and giveaways — Cryptocurrency exchange's ambassadors recruited new customers through glitzy events, $5 sign-up bonuses and giveaways| Financial Times: |
Sources: online fast fashion retailer Shein is looking to raise up to $3B from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala, Sequoia, and others at a $64B valuation, vs. its $100B peak — Chinese fast-fashion retailer looking to raise up to $3bn at a vastly reduced valuation in response to tech downturn| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra specs allegedly leak: 6.1-, 6.6-, and 6.8-inch displays, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, a 200MP sensor for the Ultra, and more — Spec sheets for all three devices in Samsung's upcoming flagship smartphone lineup, the Galaxy S23 series, appear to have leaked online.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Investigation: 600+ US law enforcement agencies can access a database of 150M+ money transfers between the US and 20+ countries via Western Union and others — Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. have direct access to over 150 million transactions housed at an Arizona nonprofit
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