X suspends several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, amid extensive protests sparked by the arrest of President Erdogan's main political rival
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations. — Elon Musk's social media platform X …
A profile of StubHub CEO Eric Baker, who, according to the company's S-1, holds 5.2% of Class A shares but controls over 90% of the votes through Class B shares
This time it isn't concert tickets Eric Baker is selling. It's shares of StubHub Holdings Inc., the company he co-founded and has owned on and off for a quarter century.
StubHub files for an IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE, and reports a $2.8M loss on $1.77B in revenue in 2024, vs. a $405M profit on $1.37B in revenue in 2023
Secondary Ticketing Sales Up 29% in 2024 Bill Peters / MarketWatch : Referenced Symbols — Ticket-resale platform StubHub on Friday said it had filed … Los Angeles Times : Ticket platform StubHub fil...
OpenAI, in partnership with MIT, releases its first study on how ChatGPT use affects emotional well-being, including differences in how men and women respond
OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week. But how does interacting with it affect us? Does it make us more or less lonely?
A look at Amazon's suit against the Consumer Product Safety Commission, claiming the agency is unconstitutional, an argument favored by the Trump administration
The company's lawsuit argues it shouldn't have to cooperate with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which oversees recalls of dangerous goods.
DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option
in Case You Need a Loan to Pay for Your Burrito Jordan Valinsky / CNN : DoorDash will soon let users eat now and pay in installments Niket Nishant / Reuters : NYSE-bound Klarna signs payments deal wit...
Intel reorganizes Intel Foundry leadership as EVP Ann Kelleher, former GM of Technology Development and now strategic adviser, plans to retire later this year
Intel reorgs Intel Foundry around two key executives. — Dr Ann Kelleher, the executive vice president at Intel responsible …
A profile of Jed McCaleb, the billionaire who was behind Mt. Gox and XRP, as his aerospace startup Vast looks to build a private space station with SpaceX
Crafting and launching a space station that can keep humans alive comfortably in orbit is no easy feat. — Jed McCaleb made a fortune in cryptocurrency.
A profile of Lisa Su, as AMD vies for a bigger chunk of the AI market; CTO Mark Papermaster says AMD had $5B in AI chip sales in 2024, up from $100M in 2023
When Lisa Su became CEO of Advanced Micro Devices in late 2014, the company was in dire straits and on the brink of potential bankruptcy.
Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal
techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/g... Jacob Parry / @jacob-parry : Google contends that “European news content in Search has no measurable impact on ad revenue for Google,” citing tests of user behaviour. —...
An interview with Affirm co-founder Max Levchin on hitting profitability, international expansion, building an “Affirm mafia”, DOGE, friendship with Musk, more
This article first appeared in The CEO Signal. Request an invitation. — THE SIGNAL INTERVIEW X: @edgecliffe . LinkedIn: Max Levchin X: @edgecliffe : Max Levchin, Affirm's CEO, told me he incorporat...
Index Ventures, Wiz's largest outside shareholder with a 13% stake, is set to turn its $245M investment into $4.3B from Wiz's pending sale to Alphabet for $32B
Index Ventures is set to earn a 250-fold return on its seed money in a startup Google has agreed to buy
The crypto-lending industry, nearly wiped out in the last bear market, is staging a comeback as Cantor Fitzgerald launches a $2B Bitcoin financing business
“There is still not a lot of interest in undercollateralized loans yet,” Hadick said. “If you can get undercollateralized lending for prime brokers, trading desks and other institutional counterparti...
Israel-based Kela, which develops tech for integrating AI, sensors, and edge devices into existing military systems, raised a $28M Series A and a $11M seed
In response to the events of October 7, Kela has developed a platform for rapid integration of commercial technologies into military systems.
Inspiren, which provides workflow and staffing tech and AI-based fall detection for senior living facilities, raised a $35M Series A led by Avenir
Someone I love dearly has Alzheimer's, making the work we do at Inspiren deeply personal. … Sam Toole : Incredible to see such amazing work from Inspiren with the launch of their complete integrated c...
Meta is testing a “Write with Meta AI” prompt on Instagram that gives users AI-generated suggestions to help write comments under other users' posts
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, raised $150M at a $2B valuation, up from $550M in May 2024
Kyle Vogt, former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has raised $150 million in a new funding round led by Greenoaks …
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”
But Can It Really Pull It Off? Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : TikTok could be owned by an AI company The News International : Perplexity joins race to buy TikTok and reshape its algorithm Sean Bur...
Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to buy Deribit, the largest bitcoin and ether options trading platform, which was reportedly valued at $4B-$5B in January
and likely won't allow us to keep trading there. 😬😓 More than 70% of the total BTC options volume is traded on Deribit. [image] @tyler_did_it : Major acquisitions happening in the CEX space First Krak...
CoreWeave is facing nearly $7.5B in debt repayments by the end of 2026, far above its existing cash flow, requiring investors in its IPO to take a leap of faith
The debt-fuelled chip arbitrager certainly has a similar asset/liability mismatch …
Sources: Katie Haun is raising $1B across two new crypto-focused funds as her Haun Ventures is close to deploying most of the $1.5B raised in 2022
Report Elena R / Coinpedia Fintech News : Katie Haun Raises $1 Billion for New Crypto Funds Daniel Kuhn / The Block : Haun Ventures seeks $1 billion to fund crypto startups: report X: Jeff Roberts / @...
Developers worry about future monetization of Alexa's voice experiences, as Amazon prepares to launch Alexa+ without many of Alexa's 160K current skills
but your favorite skill might not make the cut Mastodon: Janko Roettgers / @jank0@sfba.social : Amazon has largely kept mum on what will happen to skills on Alexa+, but a company spokesperson for the ...
Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft and others, used an auditor with links to founder Sachin Duggal; Duggal resigned as CEO last month
Findings related to one of UK's best-funded tech start-ups raises alarm with corporate governance experts
Sources: the UK weighs reducing or abolishing its 2% digital services tax on UK revenue of Big Tech companies by April 2 in an effort to avoid some US tariffs
To be continued... David Henig / @davidheniguk : If the UK deal with the US involves a government struggling for revenue giving up tax in return for the *possible* reduction of tariffs then I don't th...
Coinbase and others eye India comeback as regulators tease pivot; Electric Capital: India had 12% of crypto devs in 2024, only behind the US, up from 4% in 2018
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg :
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