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Binance says the NYDFS ordered Paxos to stop issuing more of its BUSD stablecoin, which has 6.2M holders; Paxos will continue redemptions and cut Binance ties — Firm will continue to manage redemptions of the product — New York regulators directed a crypto company to stop issuing … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the SEC told Paxos the agency plans to sue the crypto firm, alleging the Paxos-issued and listed Binance USD stablecoin is an unregistered security — The agency has been intensifying its enforcement of major crypto players — The Securities and Exchange Commission … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Inside Apple's push to build new financial services, which have suffered from engineering and technical setbacks, leading to slow progress and missed deadlines — Apple's slate of new financial services — including “buy now, pay later” offerings, savings accounts and an iPhone subscription program — have hit delays.| Max Tani / Semafor: |
A look back at Spotify betting hundreds of millions of dollars on podcasts, which CFO Paul Vogel says were a “big drag on our business in 2022” — By 2021, Spotify had paid to sign some of the biggest names in podcasting, and it was ready to start squeezing its competitors.| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
How a slowing digital ad market, Apple's ATT changes, tech companies' internal turmoil, weak content moderation, and more are contributing to a junk ad epidemic — Scrolling past ads has rarely been enjoyable. But in recent months, people say the experience seems so much worse.| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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Twilio plans to cut around 17% of its workforce, or roughly 1,500 jobs, after laying off 11% in September 2022 and will form two units to aide efficiency — - Twilio on Monday announced plans to cut about 1,500 employees, or around 17% of its workforce, according to a blog post shared on the company's website.| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
Sex educators, adult stars, and sex workers complain about Instagram, saying Meta's moderation has gotten more punitive and less predictable since SESTA-FOSTA — Cherie DeVille lives in perpetual fear of losing her 3.7 million Instagram followers. — DeVille is a well-known porn star who also has an OnlyFans account.| Financial Times: |
A look at Andy Jassy's challenges running Amazon, down by $1T in market cap since he took over: cutting costs, layoffs, boosting Prime subscribers, and more — Investors joining Amazon's earning call earlier this month were greeted with a surprise guest: the group's chief executive, Andy Jassy.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Marketplace Pulse: in a first, Amazon's average cut of each sale reached 51.8% in 2022, up from 48% in 2021, 45.8% in 2020, 40% in 2017, and 35.2% in 2016 — Grappling with slowing sales growth and rising costs, Amazon.com Inc. is squeezing more money from the nearly 2 million small businesses … | Shenghao Bai / Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: the blended bill of materials for the iPhone 14 Pro Max 128GB is $464 total, up 3.7% on the 13 Pro Max, with 22% down to Apple's A16 and other chips — - The blended bill of materials (BoM) cost for the iPhone 14 Pro Max with 128GB Nand flash is about $464, a 3.7% increase from that of the iPhone 13 Pro Max.| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber strikes two seven-year deals with Google Cloud and Oracle to host its IT infrastructure; an Uber executive says 95% of its IT is hosted on its own servers — Two seven-year deals will help ride-hailing company end reliance on its own data centers — Uber Technologies Inc. plans … | Wired: |
Publishers worry that Microsoft's and Google's search chatbots, which summarize key info from articles, may undermine their businesses and spread misinformation — Microsoft's new search interface can serve up key information from articles, removing the need to click—and potentially undermining publisher business models.
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