Twitter tests Twitter Circle, a feature for sharing tweets with up to 150 people, rather than publicly, similar to Instagram's Close Friends sharing option
Twitter today announced that it is testing a new Twitter Circle feature, which is designed to allow people to share their tweets with a smaller crowd.
NonFungible: NFT sales fell 92% to a ~19K daily average this week from a ~225K peak in September 2021; active wallets fell 88% to ~14K from a November 2021 high
Is this the beginning of the end of NFTs? — 1x — The NFT market is collapsing. — The sale of nonfungible tokens …
Sources: Elon Musk told potential investors in his Twitter deal he plans to stage an IPO of the company in as little as three years after taking it private
Tesla chief has been speaking to investors including private-equity firms about participating in deal
Samsung unveils Universal Flash Storage 4.0, claiming double the speed of UFS 3.1, making it ideal for 5G phones, and sets mass production for Q3 2022
5G smartphones are about to get much faster. — TL;DR — Samsung's UFS 4.0 flash storage will offer twice the performance of 3.1.
SafeGraph says it will stop selling the location data of visitors to Planned Parenthood and other family planning centers “to curtail any potential misuse”
including the authorities — conveniently pre-sifted for visits to reproductive health clinics. A years-in-the-making total regulatory failure. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Kashmir H...
Uber Q1: $6.85B revenue, up 136% YoY, net loss of $5.9B due to equity investments, gross bookings of $26.4B, up 35%, mobility revenues crossed delivery revenues
- Uber reported first-quarter earnings before the bell Wednesday. — Mobility revenues have finally surpassed delivery revenues, as travel rebounds.
An interview with Tony Fadell on his new book, Google's “culture of perks”, developing the iPod and iPhone, why he says “fuck the metaverse”, and more
Tony Fadell was instrumental in the development of the iPod and iPhone at Apple and then co-founded Nest Labs …
GitHub will require developers who contribute code to use two-factor authentication by the end of 2023; just 16.5% of active GitHub users currently use 2FA
GitHub announced that it will require developers who contribute code to the repository to use two-factor authentication by the end of 2023 …
The SEC plans to add 20 investigators and litigators to its Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, created in September 2017 to investigate fraud, taking it to 50 staff
ancient crypto curse https://www.wsj.com/... @cmsholdings : A more dovish take here is that crypto has more than doubled in size especially headcount / projects / notional traded pretty much every met...
Moysle, which provides a mobile device management system for Apple devices, raises a $196M Series B led by Insight Partners
Moysle, a mobile device management platform for Apple devices, today announced that it raised $196 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners …
Lyft reports Q1 revenue of $875.6M, up 44% YoY, vs $844.5M est., and a net loss of $196.9M, but misses on 17.8M active riders, vs 18M expected; stock down 30%+
Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg :
AMD Q1: revenue grew 71% YoY to $5.89B, including $2.8B from Computing and Graphics, up 33% YoY, and $2.5B from Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom, up 88% YoY
Hey Global Investor! Steve Dent / Engadget : AMD teases new ‘Dragon Range’ CPUs for high-end gaming laptops Dylan Martin / The Register : AMD to offer CPUs with Xilinx AI engine in 2023 Wallace Witkow...
Interview with Shopify's Alex Danco, who heads its blockchain team, on how Web3, crypto, and NFTs can reshape commerce, making Shopify “wallet-aware”, and more
Alex Danco Joins to Explain NFTs and How Shopify is Becoming Wallet-Aware … Today's Not Boring is brought to you by... Mighty Networks Tweets: @caseynewton , @dschenkelman , @mylesudland , and @packym...
Meta's AI lab creates Open Pretrained Transformer, a language model trained with 175B parameters to match GPT-3's size, and gives it to researchers for free
Tailscale, which provides an enterprise mesh VPN service built on the open source WireGuard protocol, raises a $100M Series B at a $1B+ valuation
Zero trust security is an emerging paradigm in enterprise IT. It means that no one is trusted by default from inside or outside a network …
Airbnb Q1: nights and experiences up 59% YoY to 102.1M, vs 100.9M est., revenue up 70% YoY to $1.51B, vs $1.45B est., and a $19M net loss, down from $1.2B YoY
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC :
Sentry, an application performance monitoring service used by Microsoft, Slack, and others, raises a $90M Series E led by Bond and Accel at a $3B+ valuation
Sentry, an application performance monitoring (APM) platform used by some of the world's biggest companies, has raised $90 million in a series E round of funding.
Publicis will acquire Profitero, which provides e-commerce software and analytics to over 4,000 brands, sources say for about $200M
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal :
Match Group Q1: revenue of $799M, up 20% YoY, vs $794M est., operating income up 10% YoY to $208M; Zynga President Bernard Kim named CEO, replacing Shar Dubey
Imagene AI, whose AI tech can help detect cancerous biomarkers directly from a digitized biopsy image, raises a $18.5M Series A from Larry Ellison and others
Meir Orbach / CTech :
Amazon plans to support the popular EPUB ebook format via the Send to Kindle feature in late 2022, and drop support for the MOBI and AZW formats
Filing: Didi says it is cooperating with the SEC's investigation into its $4.4B US IPO in June 2021, “subject to strict compliance” with the Chinese law
Jody Godoy / Reuters :
Prisma, whose open-source Prisma ORM, launched in 2021, is used by 150K+ developers for Node.js and TypeScript projects, raises a $40M Series B led by Altimeter
When it comes to building databases and other backend software development, different organizations and developers do not always speak the same language.
LottieFiles, which develops plugins for app developers to create, edit, and test JSON-based Lottie animations, raises a $37M Series B led by Square Peg Capital
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Lumos, which is building an app store for companies to manage all the SaaS apps their employees use, emerges from stealth with $30M+ from a16z, Neo, and others
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Amberdata, which provides data and insights for digital asset institutions, raises a $30M Series B at a $330M valuation, bringing its total funding to $47M
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch :
After cracking down on its technology giants, China leans on Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan's distribution networks to fill grocery deliveries during lockdowns
Vilnius-based kevin., which offers card-less account-to-account payments, raises a $65M Series A led by Accel and says 6K merchants use it across Europe
Seattle-based Edge Delta, whose observability service analyzes data locally for more specific and faster results, raises a $63M Series B led by Quiet Capital
Graphite, an open-source command line interface and code review dashboard, raises a $20M Series A led by a16z to grow its team of six to 15+ by the end of 2022
Toronto-based Valence, which helps managers track team performance using continuous reviews, raises a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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