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Flipkart no longer owns a stake in PhonePe, the two companies say; source: PhonePe is in talks to raise $1.5B at a pre-money valuation of $12B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Flipkart no longer owns a stake in PhonePe, the two companies say; source: PhonePe is in…
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Microsoft files a rebuttal to the FTC's lawsuit to block its Activision deal, saying the deal won't hurt competition and that it isn't the top game developer (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Microsoft files a rebuttal to the FTC’s lawsuit to block its Activision deal,…
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President Jair Bolsonaro signs into law Brazil's first crypto framework, which defines digital assets and provides ground rules for crypto brokerages (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: President Jair Bolsonaro signs into law Brazil’s first crypto framework, which defines digital assets and provides ground rules for…
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ByteDance fired four employees after finding in a probe they accessed data on US TikTok users, including reporters, while trying to learn the sources of a story (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
Emily Baker-White / Forbes: ByteDance fired four employees after finding in a probe they accessed data on US TikTok users,…
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Research: tens of thousands of Twitter poll bot votes can cost less than $100, potentially undermining Elon Musk's move to rely on polls for company decisions (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Research: tens of thousands of Twitter poll bot votes can cost less than $100, potentially undermining…
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Crypto exchange Bullish, backed by Peter Thiel, and Far Peak, a SPAC led by ex-NYSE President Thomas Farley, call off their planned $9B merger announced in 2021 (Joanna Ossinger/Bloomberg)
Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Bullish, backed by Peter Thiel, and Far Peak, a SPAC led by ex-NYSE President…
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LastPass says a threat actor stole its customers’ encrypted vault data by using cloud storage keys stolen from a LastPass employee in August 2022 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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A 1974 US privacy law that prevents the sharing of citizens' data between US agencies is forcing the government to use and pay millions annually to data brokers (Alfred Ng/Politico)
Alfred Ng / Politico: A 1974 US privacy law that prevents the sharing of citizens’ data between US agencies is…
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Sam Bankman-Fried appears in US federal court charged with wire fraud and other crimes; judge grants bail with a $250M bond and custody at his parents’ CA home (Luc Cohen/Reuters)
The year we’ve had: Office Integrator in 2022 — We began 2022 with the goal to make office editor integration…
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