Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Meta this fall after 14 years, and chief growth officer Javier Olivan will take over as COO; Sandberg will stay on Meta's board
Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from her role as Chief Operating Officer at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook. Source: Sheryl Sandberg .
A profile of Meta's next COO Javier Olivan, a Facebook veteran credited for its global expansion, who may not have the same public-facing role as Sandberg
- Javier Olivan has a low profile relative to Sheryl Sandberg, who he is replacing as Meta's chief operating officer.
The DOJ charges ex-OpenSea head of product Nate Chastain with wire fraud and money laundering tied to a September 2021 NFT insider trading scheme, a DOJ first
Department of Justice officials say it's the first time they've pursued an “insider trading” charge in digital assets. Source: U.S. Department of Justice .
After building Meta's massive ad business, Sheryl Sandberg's legacy is complicated by blind spots on data, misinformation, and more
Sheryl Sandberg once remarked that she felt she was put on earth to scale organizations — and during her career as one of the most powerful executives in Silicon Valley …
The Solana blockchain was down for about four hours on Wednesday after a bug blocked consensus; network validators disabled the feature to restart the network
SOL is down 11% for the day as Solana dealt with another period of downtime, forcing a rollback and restart by validators. — In brief
Amazon plans to stop supplying Chinese retailers with Kindles, will close the e-bookstore in China on June 30, 2023, and remove the Kindle app in 2024
Amazon.com (AMZN.O) said it will stop supplying retailers in China with its Kindle e-readers from Thursday and will shut its Kindle e-bookstore …
Sheryl Sandberg's departure comes as Meta faces a challenging post-ATT ad market, a drastic pivot to the metaverse, and increasing EU scrutiny
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US Cyber Command head Paul Nakasone confirms that US military hackers have conducted cyberattacks in support of Ukraine in response to Russia's invasion
In an exclusive interview with Sky News, General Paul Nakasone confirmed for the first time that the US had “conducted a series of operations” …
ExpressVPN says it is pulling its servers out of India, citing the impossibility of complying with an upcoming mandate to record users' names and activities
New Delhi: Virtual private network (VPN) operator ExpressVPN is pulling its servers out of India, citing the impossibility of complying …
Some Google staff say Google is willfully ignoring caste bias after it canceled a presentation on the topic, which led to the resignation of a senior manager
The rising Hindu nationalist movement that has spread from India through the diaspora has arrived inside Google, according to employees and an activist on caste bias. Tweets: @audreytruschke , @pransh...
Developer finds that Twitter appears to be working on Search Subscribe, which will let users opt to receive notifications for new tweets matching a search query
Think Google Alerts, but for Twitter — Twitter appears to be working on a feature called “Search Subscribe,” …
Amazon launches an invite-based ordering option for high-demand, low-supply products in the US to counter bots, starting with PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles
Amazon is launching a new invite-based ordering experience for high-demand, low-supply products. Tweets: @mrinaldesai Tweets: @mrinaldesai : Really something that @Nike could do for their SNKRS drops ...
Mandiant: the Russia-based cybercriminal group known as Evil Corp has shifted to a ransomware-as-a-service model in an effort to evade 2019 US sanctions
The Russia-based cybercriminal group known as Evil Corp has shifted to a ransomware-as-a-service model in an effort to skirt U.S. sanctions …
Former federal prosecutors say Do Kwon is unlikely to face prison as it will be hard to prove intent to defraud but fines and lawsuits are more likely
- Do Kwon is the 30-year-old South Korean founder of a $60 billion stablecoin project that imploded last month.
Devo Technology, a cloud-native logging and security analytics provider, raises a $100M Series F led by Eurazeo at a $2B valuation
Today, cloud-native logging and security analytics provider Devo Technology announced it has raised $100 million as part of a Series F funding round, and achieved a valuation of $2 billion.
Canada's privacy regulator finds that coffee shop chain Tim Hortons illegally collected customer location data via its mobile app without adequate user consent
how restaurant apps can put your privacy at risk Jim Bronskill / CTV News : Tim Hortons app collected vast amounts of sensitive data: privacy watchdogs Tweets: Pernille Tranberg / @pernillet : Trackin...
Analysis of S&P 500 companies: Alphabet and Meta workers had 2021's highest median pay at $295K+ and $292K+; Apple's was $68K+ and Amazon's was $32K+
the highest among S&P 500 companies. The ones next on the list may surprise you. https://www.wsj.com/...
Chinese media reports and documents show several companies linked to Xiaomi have paused IPO plans in recent months after being questioned about their close ties
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JupiterOne, which offers enterprise security teams tools to manage cyber assets, raises a $70M Series C at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $119M
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Enterprise software companies like IBM, HP, and Oracle have shown resilience amid the recent tech rout, boosted by demand for their cloud computing services
Enterprise software companies have shown relative resilience in the recent tech rout, and fevered demand for their cloud-computing services explains it, analysts say
Google plans to combine its Duo and Meet video calling apps into a single platform later in 2022, using Duo's app as the foundation under the Google Meet brand
Google launches Google TV for iOS, after moving the Movies and TV section from the Play Store to the Google TV app, letting users use their phone as a TV remote
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
Chainguard, which helps secure software supply chains, raises a $50M Series A led by Sequoia Capital and launches its first set of container base images
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Super, an Indonesian social commerce app that focuses on small towns and rural areas, raises a $70M Series C led by NEA, bringing its total funding to $106M
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Oracle receives all regulatory clearances needed for its $28.3B acquisition of digital medical records company Cerner, and expects the deal to close on June 6
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Twitter plans to shut down TweetDeck for Mac on July 1 to “focus on making TweetDeck even better”, pointing users to the web version and an upcoming Preview
The FBI says it thwarted a planned cyberattack by Iran-backed hackers on the Boston Children's Hospital after receiving intelligence from an unspecified partner
Associated Press : Source: Federal Bureau … .
The Shadowserver Foundation analysts scanned MySQL server instances and found 2.3M exposed servers connected over IPv4 and 1.3M devices connected over IPv6
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
Managed cybersecurity and intelligence services provider ReliaQuest to acquire Digital Shadows, which offers threat intelligence services, for $160M
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE :
Railway, which provides a dashboard for building, deploying, and monitoring apps and services, raises a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ericabrescia and @andreafunsten Tweets: Erica Brescia / @ericabrescia : “@Railway is building an engine to unleash the full potential of compute and make it a...
Ordr, which uses AI to monitor IoT devices for suspicious events, raises a $40M Series C co-led by Battery Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Dove Metrics: VC funding for crypto fell 38% from $6.8B in April to $4.2B in May; blockchain infrastructure got the most capital at 21% and DAOs the least at 2%
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch :
Sources: Twitter is restructuring to focus on user growth and personalization, not Spaces, newsletters, and communities; source: edit button may come in 2022
HPE reports Q2 revenue of $6.7B, nearly flat YoY, Compute revenue of $2.99B, also nearly flat, and order growth of 20% YoY; stock falls 5%+ after hours
Jon Swartz / MarketWatch :
Enterprise video messaging service Loom lays off 34 employees, or 14% of its staff; Loom raised $130M in May 2021 led by a16z at a $1.53B valuation
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As interest rates rise and the economy slows down, BNPL services Affirm, Afterpay, and Zip are beginning to see late payments or related losses pile up
After Google's Play Store policy changes, Amazon removes IAPs from its Kindle and Music apps for Android, and direct audiobook purchases from Audible on Android
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