Meta briefed some creators on Instagram's decentralized text-based app that may launch in June 2023 with a Twitter-like design, Mastodon compatibility, and more
Meta's hosting secret meetings with select creators to share details — [a sneak peek at Instagram's new text-based app]
China approves Microsoft's $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, bringing the total to 37 countries, including the EU and Japan
Thirty-seven total regulators have voiced approval thus far. — China's State Administration has approved Microsoft's attempted $69 billion acquisition …
Sources: top shareholder SoftBank demanded compensation from Revolut after UK regulators told the startup to simplify its ownership to obtain a banking license
Minister to meet payment group's bosses amid fears UK's biggest tech group will leave the country
Apple shares its first App Store Transparency Report, listing app rejections, government requests, and more, as part of a settlement in a 2021 developer lawsuit
Earlier this week, Apple shared an in-depth look at how the App Store helped prevent fraud and protect developers and customers alike.
Filing: AT&T asks the FCC to block a SpaceX/T-Mobile plan that allows Starlink to service areas lacking T-Mobile coverage, saying “FCC's rules do not permit” it
AT&T and rural telcos say Starlink-fueled phone service would cause interference.
A look at the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles; LinkedIn's transparency report says the company blocked 58M+ accounts in H2 2022, up from 22M in H1
On the internet, nobody knows you bought a dog — William Grace-Hunter doesn't exist, though this may not be immediately obvious from his LinkedIn profile.
Bitcoin payment service Strike expands to 65 countries, beyond the US, El Salvador, and Argentina, and says it is taking a regulation-first approach in the US
Since starting in 2019, the Bitcoin-powered payments app Strike has aimed to become a global crypto-powered equivalent to Venmo or Cash App.
The Australian Securities Exchange no longer plans to try to rebuild its software using blockchain, after “pausing” seven years of development in November 2022
Australia's stock market operator said it will no longer attempt to rebuild its software platform with blockchain-based technology …
Inside the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami, attended by 12K+ people, down from 25K+ in 2022, which had a subdued yet positive mood, and no talks of moonshots
It turns out that the Bitcoin faithful still like to party even after the annus horribilis that shook the digital-asset world in 2022.
After Niantic's latest AR game Peridot got negative app store reviews and few downloads, a look at the company's metaverse games struggling to find an audience
Just a few years ago, tech evangelists were hailing Niantic Inc., the maker of the hit game Pokémon Go … Tweets: @cecianasta , @345triangle , @harrymccracken , @joonian , and @hermesninja Tweets: Ceci...
Hyundai agrees to settle with ~9M US Hyundai and Kia owners for $200M, after hundreds of car thefts inspired by the viral “Kia Challenge” on TikTok in mid-2022
Jon Fingas / Engadget :
Leaders of the G7 nations call for the development and adoption of global AI standards and to “take stock of the opportunities and challenges of generative AI”
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Saturday called for the development and adoption of international technical standards …
Sources: Samsung suspends an internal review into replacing Google with Bing as its mobile devices' default search engine, citing business relations with Google
for now Maria Diaz / ZDNet : Samsung decides to keep Google as its default device search engine after all Louis Pavlakos / Android Police : Samsung puts its move to Bing search on pause for now Jason ...
Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and its work on two chips: MTIA for accelerating AI training, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, for video processing needs
#riscv Mikael Strandlund : Meta's Engineering and Infrastructure teams are excited to host AI Infra @Scale, a one-day virtual event featuring a range of speakers from Meta … Roman Levenstein : I'm thr...
Some doctors, bird watchers, and others still use pagers due to their simplicity; paging company Spok has 800K+ pagers in use in the US, down from 6.6M in 2004
Fans, including some doctors and bird watchers, appreciate the simplicity of the once-popular devices, even as others move on LinkedIn: Tom Wriggins and Greg Coticchia Tweets: @rmc031 , @stefaniei , @...
Sources: Apollo Global Management and Fortress Investment Group are each investing ~$50M in competing groups that aim to restart Celsius under new management
Wall Street Journal :
Restaurant365, which sells restaurant management software, raised $135M led by KKR and L Catterton at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $288M
https://techcrunch.com/... Kevin Beach : Great way to start the National Restaurant Association conference... This ramen photo makes me hungry! — https://techcrunch.com/... Tweets: Ingrid / @ingrid...
Jeff Jordan, a16z's fifth general partner who joined in 2011, steps back from active investments but will continue to work on his portfolio and board positions
I was well into my career when I discovered the magical world of technology start-ups. Troy Wolverton / San Francisco Business Journal : The Funded: A16z's Jeff Jordan, who led investments in companie...
Sources: days after Linda Yaccarino's appointment, media agency GroupM tells its clients that Twitter is no longer “high risk”, a designation from November 2022
Financial Times :
Restaurant chefs are increasingly designing food that plays well on video for influencers on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube that market to young diners
Ezra Marcus / Grub Street :
Indian authorities give Krafton a “trial approval” for three months to relaunch BGMI, a year after the country banned the battle royale game a second time
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Source: Instacart generated ~$740M in 2022 ad revenue, up 30% YoY; nearly 30% of the company's 2022 revenue came from its ads unit, which launched in 2019
(disclosure: I seeded instacart in 2012) — https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Tweets: Tanay Jaipuria / @tanayj : Great read on Instacart's business by @coryweinberg - $2.5B in total revenue in 2022...
A UK court throws out a case against Google over the transfer of 1.6M patients' medical records by an NHS trust to DeepMind in 2015 and their alleged misuse
Sam Tobin / Reuters :
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