CoinDesk retains Lazard investment bankers to help the outlet explore its options, including a partial or full sale, after “numerous” indications of interest
Company has ‘received numerous inbound indications of interest,’ CEO Kevin Worth says
Sources: Apple is working on an iPad-based smart display, with smart home controls, video, and FaceTime, and a new Apple TV with a faster processor for H1 2024
Apple Inc. is working on a slate of devices aimed at challenging Amazon.com Inc. and Google in the smart-home market …
Amazon plans to close AmazonSmile, launched in 2013 to let customers donate 0.5% of eligible items' purchase prices to a charity, on February 20, 2023
Amazon will be closing its charity program, AmazonSmile, in the coming weeks in order to “focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact.”
Crypto investors say Sam Bankman-Fried frequently promoted and manipulated “Samcoins”, including Solana, Serum, FTT, and Maps, to benefit FTX and Alameda
or did it? Developers complained for years that @SBF_FTX preyed on their projects for his own gain. And investors say they saw red flags in his funraising techniques https://www.nytimes.com/... John R...
Wikimedia launches an updated Wikipedia design, including improved search and accessibility, a refreshed table of contents, and easier language switching
Wikipedia, one of the world's top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade.
Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund sold most of its crypto portfolio by the end of March 2022, before the crypto market crash, generating ~$1.8B in returns
Billionaire was early mainstream investor in the digital currency but VC fund no longer has significant exposure
National Australia Bank creates the AUDN stablecoin, the second major Australian bank after ANZ's A$DC, letting customers settle transactions on the blockchain
National Australia Bank has become the second of the major banks to create a stablecoin, called the AUDN, to allow its business customers …
In his first interview, FTX CEO John Ray says he has set up a task force to explore restarting the exchange, saying customers praised its technology, and more
In his first public interview since taking over the failed cryptocurrency exchange, John J. Ray III said that he's open to the idea of rebooting operations
Sources: Genesis creditors are negotiating a bankruptcy plan with the firm and weighing a one to two-year forbearance period in exchange for cash and DCG equity
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Mailchimp says a hacker accessed data on 133 accounts via a staff social engineering attack, first detected on January 11, its second breach in six months
Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers' data was exposed.
Twitter launches Blue on Android for $11 per month, the same as iOS and $3 more than the web, after launching an annual subscription
A day after launching an annual Twitter Blue subscription, the social media company made the paid plan available for purchase for Android users today.
FTX posed as a haven from tumbling currencies and inflation in Africa, where the company recruited users via glitzy events, $5 sign-up bonuses, and giveaways
Alexandra Wexler / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @gksteinhauser , @sarahnemerson , @peterguest , @counternotions , and @drewhinshaw Tweets: Gabriele Steinhauser / @gksteinhauser : “For my community, ...
Instagram rolls out Quiet Mode, which silences notifications, auto-replies to DMs, and informs friends, and plans to prompt teens to enable the feature at night
Instagram announced today it's expanding its selection of time management tools with the launch of a new feature called “Quiet Mode.”
Nvidia GeForce Now Ultimate with RTX 4080 hands-on: impressive input latency, but some visuals are still hazy and only six games support 240fps right now
For $20 a month, Nvidia will rent you an RTX 4080 gaming PC in the cloud. It feels phenomenal in some games, but there's still work to be done.
Journal editors, researchers, and publishers are debating the role of AI tools like ChatGPT in published literature and whether they should be cited as authors
Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance journalist in Newcastle, UK. — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar Tweets: @drkahaynes , @neuroecology , @jazliaziz , @anantbhan , @ag...
Andrew Bosworth talks about Meta's decision to discontinue Portal and how the company nearly made a deal to license Portal's tech and platform to Amazon in 2020
Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth told BuzzFeed News how a deal to keep the Portal software going almost happened.
Steam Deck review, after one year, 435 hours playing games, and 100+ updates: Valve has fixed many issues, making play smooth and the device a compelling buy
I'm making a note here: huge success. … The Steam Deck is my favorite gadget of 2022. I have no hesitation in recommending it anymore.
Memo: Microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 employees through March 31, reducing its headcount by less than 5%, and take a $1.2B charge tied to severance and more
Yesterday, Microsoft announced it would be the latest tech … Esther Shein / TechRepublic : Microsoft will lay off 10,000 employees Ana Kessler / 80 Level : Microsoft Is Laying Off 10,000 Employees Wad...
Samsung Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra specs allegedly leak: 6.1-, 6.6-, and 6.8-inch displays, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, a 200MP sensor for the Ultra, and more
Jon Porter / The Verge :
The US Treasury's FinCEN unit labels crypto exchange Bitzlato as a “money laundering concern” related to Russian illicit finance; French police seize Bitzlato
wherever they are. https://www.reuters.com/... Jameson Lopp / @lopp : Nobody knows what Bitzlato was because criminal activity is (estimated to be) less than 1% of crypto transaction volume. @fbi : An...
Analysis: ransomware attackers received at least ~$457M in 2022, a low estimate, down from ~$766M in 2020 and 2021, as victims increasingly refuse to pay
a huge drop of 40.3%. In this blog, we break down this phenomenon and explore some key ransomware trends from the past year. 🧵https://blog.chainalysis.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter....
India's Supreme Court declines Google's request to block the Competition Commission of India's antitrust order on Android, leaving in place a $116M fine
An analysis of 11 online pharmacies selling abortion pills: at least nine use third-party trackers such as Google Analytics to collect and share sensitive data
Curious about medical abortion for an unplanned pregnancy, I visited the site two months back to order MTP Kit. Onlineabortionpillrx : Buy Mifeprex Online Tweets: Josh Chin / @joshchin : Vital reporti...
Crypto exchange OKX reports $7.5B in reserves excluding its token; CryptoQuant rates OKX as 100% “clean”, not relying on its native token, while Binance is 87%
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk :
Analysis: Series B valuations fell 50% from a $250M median in Q1 2022 to a $125M median in Q4 2022; Q4 2022's VC activity by volume resembled that of Q2 2020
Eric Newcomer / Newcomer :
Patreon, Substack, and other “passion economy” startups are laying off staff and abandoning fundraising plans; Dealroom: investment fell 75% to $801M in 2022
Once high-flying start-ups that serve online creators and influencers have been forced into a painful retrenchment … Tweets: @pkedrosky Tweets: Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : Good FT piece today on the ...
Walmart-backed Indian fintech company PhonePe raised $350M from General Atlantic at a $12B+ valuation, with plans to raise as much as $1B in tranches
Nikhil Patwardhan / Moneycontrol :
A look at the art world's deal-with-the-devil approach to the NFT market, after allegations that FTX bought the $24.4M trove of 107 Bored Apes NFTs at Sotheby's
Nate Freeman / Vanity Fair : Tweets: @ryder_ripps , @vanityfair , and @agreenberg Tweets: Ryder Ripps / @ryder_ripps : “Ultimately, it alleges that the rise of the planet of the Bored Apes was nothin...
The Nil Foundation, which helps Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains and protocols generate zero-knowledge proofs, raised $22M led by Polychain at a $220M valuation
Kari McMahon / The Block :
Analysis: funding to VC-backed Web3 startups fell from $29.2B in 2021 to $21.5B in 2022; Q4 2022 funding fell 74% YoY from $9.3B to just $2.4B
Spotify, Deezer, Proton, and others write to Margrethe Vestager, demanding the European Commission take action against Apple's “unfair practices”, like IAP fees
Similarweb: Twitter referral traffic to 12 major news outlets fell 12% on average from November 2022 to December 2022; only traffic to NY Post and Fox News grew
Digiday : Tweets: @mattmcgee , @martyswant , @mehdirhasan , @timgatt , and @dimensionmedia See also Mediagazer Tweets: Matt McGee / @mattmcgee : Purely anecdotal, but it seems to me that my tweets wi...
Link, which lets merchants in the US accept direct bank payments, raised a $10M seed led by Tiger Global and a $20M Series A led by Valar
People are addicted to credit cards — and it's no wonder, given the lucrative rewards that many of them offer. But for merchants, credit cards tend to be less appealing. Tweets: @cpa_trendlines Twee...
Cybersecurity firm Sophos lays off 10% of its global workforce and sources say ~450 employees were let go; Thoma Bravo acquired Sophos for $3.9B in March 2020
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Brazil's antitrust watchdog Cade opened a probe into Apple on January 12 for alleged abuse of a dominant position, after MercadoLibre filed a complaint
Sources: online fast fashion retailer Shein is looking to raise up to $3B from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala, Sequoia, and others at a $64B valuation, vs. its $100B peak
TikTok expands its “state-controlled media” label to over 40 markets globally, including the US and China, after a pilot in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in 2022
New York-based Impel, an AI-powered customer engagement service for the auto industry, raised $104M led by Silversmith, bringing its total funding to $130M
Keerthi Vedantam / Crunchbase News :
Gartner says 2022 global IT spending dropped 0.2% to $4.38T, below an estimated 0.8% rise, and expects 2.4% growth in 2023, weighed down by economic uncertainty
Source: Twitter's Q4 2022 revenue fell ~35% YoY to $1.025B, 72% of its Q4 goal; the company hopes to generate $732M in Q1 2023, which would be down 39% YoY
Research: Southeast Asia online food delivery spending rose 5% YoY to $16.3B in 2022, the slowest in at least four years; Grab extended its lead with 54% of GMV
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg :
Cloudian, a hybrid cloud data management and storage tech vendor, raised $60M from Digital Alpha, Intel Capital, and others, bringing its total funding to $233M
Joseph F. Kovar / CRN :
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