A look at Apple's strategy to keep executives who wish to retire; sources: the M4 Mac mini will have five USB-C and no USB-A ports, and an internal power supply
Apple's succession strategy has come into focus with the upcoming exit of its chief financial officer.
A majority of Brazilian judges on a Supreme Court panel vote to confirm an order to ban X in Brazil and fine those who don't comply with it by using a VPN
- Majority on panel backs order by Moraes against social network — Justices also uphold fine for those who use VPN for access
Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil move to Bluesky and Threads; Brazil is X's fifth-largest international market, with 20M+ users
uau... bem-vindos ao UM MILHÃO de novos usuários nos últimos três dias!!! 🎉 Mike Masnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social : very time some Elon fan tweets a similar thing (often misleading) about ExTwitter to...
Source: Pat Gelsinger aims to offer ideas to Intel's board to cut capex spending and more, like halting the $32B chip plant project in Germany or selling Altera
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and key executives are expected to present a plan later this month to the company's board of directors …
Fidelity values X at ~72% below Elon Musk's purchase price, meaning Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud would be down $1.4B and Dorsey and Ellison $720M each
Elon Musk bought Twitter with a combination of his own money, bank loans and capital raised from friends and associates.
Apple and Meta fight over which should be responsible for verifying users' ages in teen social media bills; Apple lobbied Louisiana to kill a device-level rule
Earlier this year, freshman Louisiana legislator Kim Carver got a close look at Apple's AAPL -0.34%decrease; red down pointing triangle formidable lobbying machine.
Sources: LobbyMatic, which offers AI tools for lobbying, is covertly run by far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are operating under the pseudonyms Jay Klein and Bill Sanders. — A Washington startup pitched …
OKX says the Monetary Authority of Singapore granted OKX SG a Major Payment Institution license, and appoints former Grab executive Gracie Lin as OKX SG's CEO
- CEO Lin to focus on products, seeks MAS nod for adding tokens — Crypto exchange OKX named former regulator Gracie Lin as CEO …
Sources: China has threatened Japan with severe economic retaliation if Japan further restricts sales and servicing of chipmaking equipment to Chinese firms
- One concern is Toyota could lose access to critical minerals — Biden is pressuring Japan to align with possible new US rules
Filing: the US SEC seeks changes in FTX's bankruptcy plan and says it “reserves its rights to challenge distribution transactions involving crypto assets”
Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk :
Netflix is trying to improve dubbing and translations of non-English content, particularly South Korean reality TV shows, to drive international viewership
Using South Korea as a testing ground, the streaming giant offers culture classes to voice actors to nail the nuances of translation
Dune Analytics: Pump.fun has generated $100M+ in revenue from 1M+ memecoins on the platform since its January 2024 launch; Pump.fun takes a 1% transaction fee
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A US court fines Dozy Mmobuosi, the founder of Tingo, which sells phones to African farmers, $250M+ after the SEC said he inflated financial performance metrics
WHEREAS Plaintiff Securities and Exchange Commission (†… TechCabal : Tingo Group CEO Dozy Mmobuosi must pay over $250m after inflating financial performance X: Abubakar / @iatalkspace : The business...
A look at Amazon's and Bezos Earth Fund's growing influence on the carbon credit market, as experts worry about how Big Tech aims to achieve tough climate goals
Experts warn of ties between Big Tech and philanthropic bodies with groups that set corporate climate standards Mastodon: @Philsturgeon@mastodon.green . LinkedIn: Travis Caddy . Forums: Hacker News Ma...
A look at Sub.club, which aims to let users on ActivityPub-based platforms monetize content via subscriptions while taking a 6% cut, available in dev preview
The fediverse has the potential to help create enduring and interoperable social networks. But many creators and businesses rely on bigger …
Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or testing AI tools and chatbots to generate icebreakers, coach users, and more, in a bid to attract new users
Dating apps develop AI ‘wingmen’ to generate better chat-up lines This will include “generating conversation prompts based on users' unique profiles and chat histories” Sounds like an episode of Black...
Sources: ByteDance is tapping Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan for a $9.5B loan, the biggest dollar-denominated corporate loan in Asia, excluding Japan
- Loan carries greenshoe option that allows size to increase — Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan are the loan coordinators
A look at the surge of interest-based sites as users grow weary of mega platforms; Letterboxd's, Strava's, and AllTrails' MAUs grew 55%, 20%, and 10% YoY in H1
Teresa Xie / Bloomberg : LinkedIn: Danny Chen and Watson Michael LinkedIn: Danny Chen : We increasingly need the community that shares the commont interest, rather than just looking at various commer...
A look at France's J3 cybercrime unit, which took charge of the Sky ECC probe and Encrochat prosecutions and now leads the case against Telegram CEO Pavel Durov
Gabriel Stargardter / Reuters : X: @gabstargardter and @kaepora X: Gabriel Stargardter / @gabstargardter : I wrote about the small Paris cybercrime unit, led by 38-year-old prosecutor Johanna Brousse...
Source: NightCafe, a bootstrapped AI art marketplace with 25M+ users who have generated nearly 1B images, has $4M in annualized revenue with a ~50% gross margin
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