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Sources: China is working on a $143B+ five-year support package for its chip industry, mainly including subsidies and tax credits, starting as soon as Q1 2023 (Julie Zhu/Reuters)
Julie Zhu / Reuters: Sources: China is working on a $143B+ five-year support package for its chip industry, mainly including…
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Sources: Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, drops its internal valuation to ~$11B, after securing a $40B investor valuation in January 2022 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Sources: Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, drops its internal valuation to ~$11B, after securing…
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China files a trade dispute at the WTO against the US over its chip export controls, arguing the curbs threaten the stability of global industrial supply chains (Reuters)
Reuters: China files a trade dispute at the WTO against the US over its chip export controls, arguing the curbs…
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The US SEC says it is preparing charges against SBF to be filed in court on December 13, separate from the ones leading to his recent arrest in The Bahamas (Brian Quarmby/Cointelegraph)
Brian Quarmby / Cointelegraph: The US SEC says it is preparing charges against SBF to be filed in court on…
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Coinbase transparency report: law enforcement requests rose ~66% YoY to 12,320 from October 2021 to September 2022; ~57% of them were from outside the US (Nelson Wang/CoinDesk)
Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: Coinbase transparency report: law enforcement requests rose ~66% YoY to 12,320 from October 2021 to September…
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New Zealand-based Partly, which maintains a database used by marketplaces like eBay of 50M+ car parts from 20K+ suppliers and OEMs, raised a $21M Series A (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: New Zealand-based Partly, which maintains a database used by marketplaces like eBay of 50M+ car parts…
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Elon Musk says Twitter Blue subscribers will see half the number of ads, and that it plans to offer a higher tier with no ads in 2023 (Urvi Dugar/Reuters)
Urvi Dugar / Reuters: Elon Musk says Twitter Blue subscribers will see half the number of ads, and that it…
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Email: Twitter dissolves its Trust and Safety Council, saying it isn't "the best structure" for "external insights into our product and policy development work" (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Email: Twitter dissolves its Trust and Safety Council, saying it isn’t “the best structure” for…
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Sources: on December 11, Twitter briefly blocked traffic from ~30 mobile carriers, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, in an attempt to rid Twitter of spam (Platformer)
Platformer: Sources: on December 11, Twitter briefly blocked traffic from ~30 mobile carriers, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, in an…
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