Speaking at Davos, OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann says the global digital tax will not arrive in 2023 as planned due to slow negotiations — The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time that a global digital tax deal may take a year longer to implement.
Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, including $1.5B for seed investments, its fourth and largest such fund — Silicon Valley venture capital firm launches its largest fund to date focused on digital assets despite market downturn — Andreessen Horowitz has launched …
An in-depth look at Meta's ongoing battle to keep Facebook and Instagram relevant as TikTok's growth explodes, including encouraging creators to use Reels — Last year an Instagram representative contacted Justina Sharp, a 24-year-old with 93,000 followers, and asked for a meeting to discuss ways she could expand her audience.
After actor and producer Seth Green lost his BAYC NFTs to a phishing scam, his show based on those NFTs is in doubt; OpenSea says it has frozen the NFTs — Actor and producer Seth Green was robbed of several NFTs this month after succumbing to a phishing scam that inadvertently threw …
UK payments startup Paddle acquires ProfitWell, which makes financial analytics tools, for $200M in cash and equity; Paddle raised $200M earlier in May — UK startup Paddle is making its first acquisition, spending more than $200 million in a mix of cash and equity to buy ProfitWell to grow its payments service.
How Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $419M donation to US local and state election officials in 2020 has become a target of right-wing conspiracies — If Mark Zuckerberg could have imagined the worst possible outcome of his decision to insert himself into the 2020 election …
At Andy Jassy's first Amazon shareholder meeting this Wednesday, filings show the company will oppose all 15 proposals, the most it has faced since 2010 — Proposals at this week's AGM will be test of leadership for new chief Andy Jassy — Amazon shareholders will challenge the company on executive pay …
Google Research details Imagen, an AI-based text-to-image generator to rival OpenAI's DALL-E 2 — The AI world is still figuring out how to deal with the amazing show of prowess that is DALL-E 2's ability to draw/paint/imagine just about anything... but OpenAI isn't the only one working on something like that.
As Street View turns 15, Google announces several updates, including historical imagery on iOS and Android and a smaller camera system for its cars — Street View for Google Maps launched 15 years ago this week, and Google is taking advantage of the anniversary to drop some updates …
Delivery startup Gorillas lays off half its “global office workforce”, around 300 people, and will reassess its operations in Italy, Spain, Denmark, and Belgium — An unsustainable business or just a side effect of the tech downturn? — Grocery app Gorillas …
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia : MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's...
