Monday, March 21, 2022
FTX launches crypto exchange services in Australia, including crypto derivatives and spot market offerings, operating out of a Sydney headquarters (Sebastian Sinclair/Blockworks)
FTX launches crypto exchange services in Australia, including crypto derivatives and spot market offerings, operating out of a Sydney headquarters — FTX is hoping to get ahead of the regulatory curve by appeasing policymakers and working “proactively” with regulators
As Amazon's ad revenue passes YouTube's and US pay TV subscriptions drop, ad budgets will shift further to targetable spots and other customer-acquisition tools (Benedict Evans)
As Amazon's ad revenue passes YouTube's and US pay TV subscriptions drop, ad budgets will shift further to targetable spots and other customer-acquisition tools — About five years ago, a revenue line buried in the back of Amazon's accounts started to get quite big.
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Media-measurement giant Nielsen says it has turned down a bid by a private equity consortium, after reports of a potential acquisition caused its stock to soar (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
Media-measurement giant Nielsen says it has turned down a bid by a private equity consortium, after reports of a potential acquisition caused its stock to soar — Nielsen Holdings PLC has turned down a bid by a private-equity consortium to buy the media-measurement giant …
Sources: Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy Anaplan for $10.7B or $66/share, after the maker of cloud-based business planning software closed at $50.59 on Friday (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy Anaplan for $10.7B or $66/share, after the maker of cloud-based business planning software closed at $50.59 on Friday — Anaplan shareholders are to receive $66 a share in cash — Private-equity firm Thoma Bravo LP has struck a deal to buy Anaplan Inc …
Brazil's Supreme Court reverses its decision to ban Telegram, which it had ordered on Friday, after Telegram suddenly worked to comply with the court's orders (New York Times)
Brazil's Supreme Court reverses its decision to ban Telegram, which it had ordered on Friday, after Telegram suddenly worked to comply with the court's orders — Brazil's Supreme Court blocked Telegram on Friday. The messaging app then responded with measures to fight misinformation, and the court quickly lifted its ban.
Q&A with Margrethe Vestager on the EU's cases against Apple, Google, Meta, and Amazon, how the planned Digital Markets Act will help enforce antitrust, and more (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
Q&A with Margrethe Vestager on the EU's cases against Apple, Google, Meta, and Amazon, how the planned Digital Markets Act will help enforce antitrust, and more — Margrethe Vestager is one of the driving forces behind tech regulation worldwide. Appointed as the European Commission's commissioner …
A look at the fallout between Bob Chapek and Bob Iger as Disney restructures for a world where streaming dominates and legacy distribution models fade away (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
A look at the fallout between Bob Chapek and Bob Iger as Disney restructures for a world where streaming dominates and legacy distribution models fade away — Bob Iger, left, and Bob Chapek of Disney — April 12, 2020. That's the day former Disney CEO Bob Iger's relationship …
Now that Apple is once again making monitors, it should go all-in and return to making wireless routers to compete with Google and Amazon offerings (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Now that Apple is once again making monitors, it should go all-in and return to making wireless routers to compete with Google and Amazon offerings — Apple's new monitor isn't getting off to a particularly strong start, but I still think the company should do more to bolster its Mac lineup—namely, selling Wi-Fi routers again.
Q&A with Second Life journalist Wagner James Au, on crypto-based metaverses, companies such as Meta struggling to foster healthy metaverse communities, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
Q&A with Second Life journalist Wagner James Au, on crypto-based metaverses, companies such as Meta struggling to foster healthy metaverse communities, and more — Welcome to Galaxy Brain—a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology, media, culture, and big ideas. You can read what this is all about here.
Doctors often use Google Translate to talk with non-English speaking patients, but researchers say inaccurate results are common and can lead to serious errors (Katie Palmer/STAT)
Doctors often use Google Translate to talk with non-English speaking patients, but researchers say inaccurate results are common and can lead to serious errors — The patient had just undergone a cesarean section, and now was struggling to put words to her pain in her native Taiwanese.
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Google accused of bias against Black employees, faces lawsuit
A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
Tripp Mickle / New York Times : A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could...
-
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
-
It’s that time of year, Silicon Valley’s investor technocrati and advice-giving Twitter celebrities descended upon Pier 48 in San Francisco ...
