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Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Analysis: Apple's Search Ads now account for 58% of iPhone app downloads resulting from an ad click; Apple to earn $5B from its ads business this fiscal year -
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Valve quietly updates Steam's rules to ban games “built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs” -
Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: Some doctors in the US and other countries say TikTok videos about Tourette syndrome may be contributing to a rise in cases of teen girls with physical tics -
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Internal document: Netflix estimates Squid Game will create almost $900M in value for the company; 87M viewers have finished the series in the first 23 days -
New York Times: Internal docs: Instagram spent the majority of its global annual marketing budget since 2018 targeting teenagers, as it worries about losing its user “pipeline” -
Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: A look at YouTube's in-house creator partnerships team, which has over 1,000 employees across 45 countries offering advice and guidance to about 12,000 creators -
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: Analysis: median CEO pay of US tech startups that went public in 2020 was $21.9M; seven of the 10 best-paid CEOs of US public companies were from such startups -
FinSMEs: Convex, which provides software for the commercial services industry, raises a $39M Series B, bringing its total raised to $60M -
Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: A look at Raya, a secretive subscription-based social network with a rigorous user selection process and a rigid code of silence for accepted members -
Chavi Mehta / Reuters: Jack Dorsey says Square is considering building an open source Bitcoin miner, using custom silicon, for individuals and businesses -
Noah Smith / Washington Post: A look at US Cyber Games, jointly founded in April by the US government, academia, and the private sector to find and train candidates for cybersecurity careers -
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: A joint advisory by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and EPA reveals three more ransomware attacks on water treatment plants this year in Nevada, Maine, and California