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Articles from t.co

How Esther Crawford, Twitter's director of product management, became one of the most influential leaders from the old guard in Elon Musk's “hardcore” Twitter (t.co)
2023-1-24 Twitter Elon Musk

VC firm Highland Europe raised a €1B fund, its fifth, bringing its total raised to €2.75B; PitchBook: European startup investment fell 16% YoY to €91.6B in 2022 (t.co)
2023-1-24 Europe Startup

A look at the challenge of moderating livestreams for children and vulnerable users, even if age verification can be improved and privacy concerns addressed (t.co)
2023-1-23

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings steps down as co-CEO but plans to stay on as executive chair; the company promotes COO Greg Peters to co-CEO with Ted Sarandos (t.co)
2023-1-20 Netflix

Patreon, Substack, and other “passion economy” startups are laying off staff and abandoning fundraising plans; Dealroom: investment fell 75% to $801M in 2022 (t.co)
2023-1-20 Startup

Sources: Founders Fund sold off most of its cryptocurrency portfolio by the end of March 2022, before the crypto market crash, generating ~$1.8B in returns (t.co)
2023-1-19 Cryptocurrency

Sources: online fast fashion retailer Shein is in talks to raise up to $3B from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala and others at a $64B valuation, down from its $100B peak (t.co)
2023-1-19

China plans to launch Strong Nation Transport, a ride-hailing app to rival Didi, initially targeting Communist party members and government employees (t.co)
2023-1-19 China

The UK's Online Safety Bill has become complex and confusing, things it sought to avoid, leaving social media companies grappling with implementing the rules (t.co)
2023-1-19

As Apple shifts from China, experts worry India will struggle with iPhone production due to supply chain issues, labor woes, a lack of automation, and more (t.co)
2023-1-18 China India iPhone Apple

A look at LockBit, a Russia-linked hacking group that claimed responsibility for compromising 40 organizations in the past month, including the UK's Royal Mail (t.co)
2023-1-18 Russia

How Apple built a supply chain in China over two decades, spending billions and embedding staff in factories, creating a dependence before US tensions escalated (t.co)
2023-1-17 China Apple

A look at Elon Musk's options to meet financial obligations from a $13B Twitter buyout debt; sources: the first interest installment could be due by January-end (t.co)
2023-1-17 Twitter Elon Musk

Investigation: Alibaba paid Chinese scholars to lobby authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation, hoping to navigate China's clampdown (t.co)
2023-1-16 China Alibaba

TikTok, Instagram, and other social media platforms expect age verification measures in the UK's Online Safety Bill to reduce user numbers, hitting ad revenue (t.co)
2023-1-15 Instagram

Sources: an entity under China's CAC acquired a 1% stake, or “golden shares”, in an Alibaba subsidiary, and plans on taking a similar stake in a Tencent unit (t.co)
2023-1-13 China Alibaba Tencent

Sources: crypto broker Genesis owes creditors more than $3B, leading DCG to explore selling venture assets, estimated to be worth ~$500M, to raise cash (t.co)
2023-1-13 Asset

Paris-based Ubisoft's stock drops ~15% after the company slashed its forecasts, reported “markedly and surprisingly slower” holiday sales, and delayed games (t.co)
2023-1-12 Paris

Sources: Apple promises investors to disclose details about its App Store removals, including the number of removal requests by country and their legal basis (t.co)
2023-1-12 Apple

After Chinese researchers claimed to break RSA encryption using quantum computers, experts are skeptical and caution that any commercial benefits are years away (t.co)
2023-1-12 China Quantum

Court documents: Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20M in Paradigm's $2.5B Paradigm One fund in late 2021, before the fund then invested in FTX and FTX US (t.co)
2023-1-11

How Section 19a of Germany's Competition Act gives antitrust authorities the power to divest and sanction Big Tech, as the EU slowly rolls out its enforcement (t.co)
2023-1-11 Germany

German drugmaker BioNTech acquires London-based AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562M to help harness machine learning to improve drug discovery (t.co)
2023-1-11 Germany Startup AI Machine Learning London

VaynerMedia: in 2022, buying 1K video ad impressions on TikTok cost around 50% less than Instagram's Reels, ~33% less than Twitter, and 62% less than Snapchat (t.co)
2023-1-10 Snapchat Instagram Twitter

Meta contractor Sama plans to close its east African content moderation hub in March, cutting ~200 staff; Meta will employ 1,500 Sama staff for data labelling (t.co)
2023-1-10 Africa

The UK will pay £24M to settle with French IT group Atos, which challenged awarding an £850M supercomputer contract to Microsoft to forecast weather and more (t.co)
2023-1-10 France Microsoft

LinkedIn posts and Apple job listings suggest Apple plans to open its first flagship stores in India, likely beyond the reported 22,000 sq. ft. store in Mumbai (t.co)
2023-1-9 India LinkedIn Apple

Sources: UK PM Rishi Sunak met Arm CEO Rene Haas and Masayoshi Son to revive efforts to secure a London listing for Cambridge-based Arm's IPO alongside New York (t.co)
2023-1-9 IPO New York London

UK-based insurer Beazley launches the first cyber catastrophe bond, typically used for hurricanes and extreme weather, as the industry combats ransomware claim (t.co)
2023-1-9

Despite a recent pledge by Chinese officials to support tech to boost growth, VCs and foreign investors remain wary after a brutal, two-year regulatory campaign (t.co)
2023-1-8 China

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