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Financial Times: 65 mins ago
Thoma Bravo agrees to buy UK-based cyber security company Darktrace for $7.75 per share, a 20% premium on its April 25 closing price, valuing the company at $5B
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: 3½ hours ago
ByteDance says it has no plans to sell TikTok, responding to a report suggesting that it is considering scenarios for selling a majority stake in US TikTok
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: 6 hours ago
TechInsights teardown: Huawei's Pura 70 uses a 7nm chip, similar to the Mate 60, and a Kirin 9010 processor, a newer version of the Mate 60 Pro's Kirin 9000s
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Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance prefers a TikTok shutdown in the US rather than a sale if legal options fail, deeming TikTok's algorithm as core to overall ByteDance systems
Microsoft:
Microsoft Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $61.9B, net income up 20% to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 13%, LinkedIn revenue up 10%; MSFT jumps 4%+ after hours
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate the US' net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
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CoinDesk:
Consensys sues the US SEC over what it calls the “unlawful seizure of authority” over ethereum, after receiving a Wells notice for its MetaMask wallet product
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his new company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the site
Financial Times:
Thoma Bravo agrees to buy UK-based cyber security company Darktrace for $7.75 per share, a 20% premium on its April 25 closing price, valuing the company at $5B
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Stripe will let customers accept crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, the first time it has taken crypto payments since 2018
Chris Miller / Financial Times:
The CHIPS Act has been surprisingly successful so far, giving the US greater scope to meet critical infrastructure needs in the event of a crisis in East Asia
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