Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to acquire all of Twitter's outstanding stock for $54.20/share in cash, in a deal worth ~$43B
Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, according to an updated 13D filing, Bloomberg News reports. Source: SEC.gov .
The auction for an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, ended with a maximum bid of 2 ETH, worth around $6.2K
Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year. Source: OpenSea .
US government agencies warn of new custom tools, created by several APT actors, that are capable of compromising IT equipment used in critical infrastructure
Several advanced persistent threat (APT) actors have created custom-made tools designed to breach IT equipment used … Source: CISA .
Since the Ukraine invasion, thousands of Russian tech workers have left the country, an exodus that will fundamentally change the Russian tech industry
Since their country invaded Ukraine, Russian tech workers have left by the thousands. They appear intent on rebuilding their lives and businesses in other countries. Tweets: @nytimes , @nytimesbusine...
A look at AI tools built by sales and customer service software companies like Uniphore and Sybill to detect human emotions, as Zoom unveils Zoom IQ for Sales
Virtual sales meetings have made it tougher than ever for salespeople to read the room. So, some well funded tech providers …
Apple says Meta's plan to take a 47.5% cut of virtual sales on Horizon Worlds “lays bare Meta's hypocrisy” for criticizing Apple's 30% cut on the App Store
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.'s intent to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales within its emerging metaverse …
WhatsApp rolls out Communities with expanded admin tools and other features, letting schools and other organizations host group chats with thousands of users
Meta is throwing billions of dollars into building out the metaverse as the future of social networking but in the near term …
Source: Ava Labs, the lead developer of the Avalanche blockchain, is raising $350M at a $5.25B valuation
Ava Labs Inc., the lead developer of the Avalanche blockchain, is in the process of raising a new round of funding, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Sources: Sequoia India's Shailendra Singh leaves fashion marketplace Zilingo's board, amid a probe into its accounting methods and suspension of CEO Ankiti Bose
Sequoia Capital India's Shailendra Singh has stepped down from the board of troubled Zilingo Pte following questions …
PitchBook NVCA report: US investments in Q1 remained strong at $70.7B, but IPOs and exits slowed to $33.6B after three consecutive quarters over $192B
Venture capital dealmaking activity and exits slowed in the first quarter after a record-breaking 2021, according to the Q1 2022 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor.
Ukraine, its allies, and hactivists have made public hundreds of gigabytes of files and millions of emails on the Russian state, including doxing Russian troops
Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while' hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations. Tweets: @findingveracity and @780thc Tweets: @findingver...
Amazon announces two mobile games for its Amazon Kids+ service, the first games published through Amazon Mobile since 2015
Amazon is publishing two new mobile games through its Amazon Kids+ service, based on the original Amazon specials Super Spy Ryan and Do, Re & Mi.
Reddit updates its search to index comments, available globally on the web but not its apps, and improves natural language searches
The new rollout also comes with a refined search experience for desktop users on the platform — Today, Reddit is updating its search feature to index comments.
Wikipedia editors vote 232 to 94 to request the Wikimedia Foundation stop accepting crypto donations; the foundation is not legally bound by the proposal
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Tencent says it will shut down its service that lets Chinese gamers access overseas platforms to play unapproved foreign games starting May 31
Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) said it will shut down a service that allowed Chinese gamers to access overseas platforms to play unapproved foreign games …
PitchBook: VCs invested $148B globally in Q1, down 25% from $191B in Q4 2021, as rising inflation and the war in Ukraine dampen investor appetites
Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg : Tweets: @markets Tweets: @markets : Private companies globally are pulling back sharply on raising new funds as pressure on public markets begins to weigh on the lofty v...
DoControl, which develops no-code tools for cloud app log-ins, raises a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners
Cloud security is one of the big drivers among enterprises making IT investments this year, according to a recent report from Gartner, which estimated that some $4.4 trillion in IT spend overall in 20...
Terraform Labs, which runs the Terra blockchain and UST stablecoin, gifts 10M LUNA tokens, worth ~$880M, to the Luna Foundation Guard, likely to underpin UST
Quick Take — Terraform Labs said it ‘gifted’ 10 million ($880 million) worth of LUNA tokens to Luna Foundation Guard.
Sources: Meta to release Nazare AR glasses V1, not tied to a phone, and a cheaper pair codenamed Hypernova in 2024; Nazare V2 expected 2026, and V3 in 2028
Sources: the US Department of Commerce is investigating Synopsys, the biggest supplier of chip design software, for possibly passing key tech to Huawei and SMIC
Synopsys Inc., the biggest supplier of software used to design semiconductors, is under investigation by the U.S. Department …
Ethereum's long-awaited proof-of-stake Merge upgrade “won't be June, but likely in the few months after”, according to a lead developer on the project
Jialiang David Pan / Bloomberg :
Apple customers say delivery estimates for orders of some MacBook Pro models have been pushed back, in some cases as far as mid-June, amid China's lockdowns
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In two weeks, Amazon will add a ~5% fuel and inflation surcharge to US sellers using its fulfillment services, which is below surcharges at UPS and FedEx
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Filings: Walmart-backed Flipkart's invested $116M in Indian fashion retailer Myntra, part of the $800M Flipkart invested in other businesses in March
The new investment comes as Myntra faces new challenges, with Reliance's Ajio emerging as a significant second player in the market.
Google quietly launches its Switch to Android app for iOS as an unlisted app
The developer, Google LLC … Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Google quietly launches its awaited ‘Switch to Android’ app on iOS Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews : New Google app makes it (marginally) easier...
Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure SaaS apps, raises a $90M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $119.5M
While businesses have embraced software-as-a-service (SaaS) in a massive way, the questions around how to best secure the use of data …
Stockholm-based Material Exchange, a marketplace connecting footwear and apparel brands with material suppliers, raises a €25M Series A led by Molten Ventures
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu : Tweets: @tech_eu , @moltenventures , and @partechpartners Tweets: @tech_eu : Helping an oft-cast ‘dirty’ industry clean up its act through digitising the materials sourcing pro...
After the pandemic forced employees to work from home, some neurodivergent people are thriving at remote cybersecurity jobs
Nicolle Liu / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @cisajen , @dnvolz , @dnvolz , @amandalgorton , @neurovagrant , and @wsj Tweets: @cisajen : 💡Great piece @nicolle_liu! We're excited about welcoming more n...
TikTok is testing a way for users to dislike comments to help users “feel more in control” of what they see; dislike counts will be hidden
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TikTok's music distribution service SoundOn is receiving mixed reviews from Brazilian and Indonesian artists for delays in releases and issues in audience reach
Rest of World : Tweets: @fogginsophie and @mvzelenks Tweets: Sophie Foggin / @fogginsophie : Wonderful colleagues @helenliwrites and @decka227 spoke to emerging music artists who told them that TikTo...
An Atlassian outage that began on April 4 left ~400 companies without access to Atlassian's cloud services; only 45% of companies have since regained access
Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer :
IMMO, whose tech lets institutional investors sell, rent, and invest in single family homes, raises a $75M Series B led by Oak HC/FT to expand across Europe
Tony Zerucha / Crowdfund Insider :
Sony and Nintendo commit to updating auto-renewal practices for their online service subscriptions, concluding a multi-year UK CMA investigation
Danielle Partis / GamesIndustry.biz :
India's payments body approves WhatsApp's plan to extend its payments service to 60M additional users in India, allowing WhatsApp Pay to reach up to 100M total
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Filevine, which offers tools to help with legal workflows such as document management and billing, raises a $108M Series D, bringing its total funding to $155M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino says the company, which issues the USDT stablecoin, reduced commercial paper to ~30% of its reserves in Q4 2021, down from 44% in Q3
Context, an app that lets users follow and track other people's crypto wallets and transactions, raises a $19.5M seed led by Variant Fund and Sam Altman
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India's ban on Chinese apps, including TikTok, has allowed homegrown short-video apps like Josh to thrive; Josh has 150M+ MAUs and a $5B valuation as of April
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : See also Mediagazer
An anonymous crypto trader seems to have bought $400K of tokens that were later listed on Coinbase, before the list was public; the tokens are now worth $572K+
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