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Financial Times:
Regulatory filings show Tiger Global has sold its entire stake in Bumble, Airbnb, and Didi, and ~80% of its stake in Robinhood during 2022's tech stock sell-off — Value of hedge fund's public shareholdings fell by almost $20bn during first quarter — Tiger Global, the hedge fund known …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Filing: shareholders voted against Intel's compensation for its top executives; the vote is advisory and won't immediately affect the compensation of the execs — - Intel shareholders voted last week against the company's compensation for its top executives, according to an regulatory filing published on Monday.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Report: the real-time bidding industry exposes a person's online activity and location 747 times per day on average in the US and 376 times a day in Europe — New data about the real-time-bidding (RTB) system's use of web users' info for tracking and ad targeting, released today …
Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal:
A California judge strikes down a 2018 state law requiring public companies in California to put female directors on their boards, citing it as unconstitutional — Decision follows a similar ruling last month on a separate law requiring racial or ethnic diversity on boards
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US DOJ says that Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez, a cardiologist in Venezuela, created, rented to cybercriminals, and profited from Jigsaw and Thanos ransomware — The US Department of Justice today said that Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez (Zagala), a 55-year-old cardiologist with French …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple now lets developers auto-renew users for increased subscription prices once a year as long as the increase doesn't exceed $50 or 50% of the annual price — Apple today informed developers that it is implementing a new subscription feature that will allow customers to be charged automatically …
Bloomberg:
Logs: the alleged Buffalo gunman spoke explicitly in a private Discord server about his plans to carry out and livestream an attack since at least December 2021 — The accused gunman behind 10 deaths and 3 injuries in Buffalo, New York, over the weekend had spoken explicitly about his plans …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Metatheory, co-founded by Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin to build games and virtual worlds using blockchain tech like NFTs, raises a $24M Series A led by a16z — Twitch cofounder Kevin Lin has created a blockchain game company Metatheory and has raised $24 million for it.
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
Uber unveils a new option to book a bus or a passenger van, a trip itinerary feature for booking rides during an extended trip, event guest vouchers, and more — - Uber announced its latest slate of updates Monday ahead of what's expected to be a busy travel and events season.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Twitch's takedown of the May 14 mass murder livestream seems to violate Texas' social media law, given that an amendment for terrorism content exceptions failed — As you've no doubt heard, on Saturday there was yet another horrific shooting, this one in Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding more.
Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says a Twitter deal at a lower price wouldn't be “out of the question”, speaking to a Miami tech conference crowd; Twitter stock closes down 8%+ — Elon Musk stoked speculation that he could seek to renegotiate his takeover of Twitter Inc., saying a viable deal at a lower price wouldn't be “out of the question.”
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft tells employees it will nearly double its global budget for merit-based salary bumps and raise its range for annual stock-based compensation by 25%+ — Microsoft plans to nearly double its global budget for merit-based salary increases, and increase its range for annual stock-based compensation …
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register:
AAA tests find active driving assist in a Hyundai Santa Fe, a Subaru Forester, and a Tesla Model 3 often fails to prevent hitting cyclists and oncoming cars — Still think we're ready for that autonomous future? — Autonomous cars may be further away than believed.
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Analysis: $7.6B of Tether has been withdrawn since Thursday, nearly twice its cash reserves at the end of 2021; Tether also holds $60B+ in “cash-like” assets — Figures suggest company has paid out more than total cash on hand, as terra backers prepare relaunch
The more you make a certain upstate NY congressperson famous for pissing off libs, the more popular you make her with her constituents. Sometimes it's better to just stifle.
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Construction robotics startup Dusty raises a $45M Series B led by Scale at a $250M valuation and says it has deals with construction firms DPR, PARIC, and more — Another sizeable funding round for Dusty Robotics this month. The Bay Area firm announced a $45 million Series B. The round …
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