Sources: banks providing $13B in cash to help fund Elon Musk's Twitter bid have begun transferring the money, signaling the deal could close on Friday — Mr. Musk sends borrowing notice, kicking off process to complete the $44 billion deal — Elon Musk Plans to Change Twitter, Here Are the Challenges He Faces
Google agrees to improve its compliance program for legal demands in a settlement with the US DOJ, which said Google lost data sought by investigators in 2016 — The tech company will be monitored by a compliance professional after the Justice Department said Google lost data sought in a U.S. investigation
Amazon begins letting select US customers make payments using Venmo, and plans to roll out the option to all US shoppers before Black Friday — Amazon announced that it will now allow customers to make payments through Venmo on its platform. The company said this option will be available …
Microsoft Surface Pro 9 review: 120Hz display, 5G, and 1080p camera, but pricey without accessories, slow apps, and just two USB ports — Exceptional hardware is still marred by incompatibilies … Video calling. — After several days of using the Qualcomm-powered Surface Pro 9 …
A book excerpt details US law enforcement efforts to catch Alpha02, who created AlphaBay, the largest online drug and crime bazaar, in 2014 and ran the service — The notorious Alpha02 oversaw millions of dollars a day in online narcotic sales. For cybercrime detectives, he was public enemy number one—and a total mystery.
A look at TSMC's efforts to build ever-smaller, more powerful, and energy efficient semiconductors, as competitors race to catch up and erode its edge — Taiwan chipmaker ‘could stumble’ as industry is forced to develop new transistor technology — Smartphone chip design house MediaTek …
New York-based Bilt, which offers a loyalty program and credit card to convert rent payments into points, raised $150M led by Left Lane at a $1.5B valuation — Bilt Rewards, which operates a loyalty program and credit card that converts rent payments into points, said its valuation more than quadrupled to $1.5 billion.
Wikimedia begins rolling out updated editing features for new contributors, such as mentorship and suggestions for cross-linking articles and other first steps — Wikipedia is one of the sturdiest survivors of the old web, as well as one of the most clearly human-powered ones …
iPad (10th gen) review: great performance and battery, lots of apps, and USB-C, but accessories are confusing and expensive, high price, and average display — Apple's latest base-model iPad cribs a lot of features from the more expensive iPad Air. But it also is considerably more expensive than before, making it a tough sell.
Research: Binance had a 55.1% market share in spot crypto trading in the past 24 hours and 54.4% of derivatives trading, easily surpassing FTX and others — - Binance accounted for more than 55% of the spot crypto market over the last 24 hours. — The exchange also claimed …
The Coterie, which lets founders access funds from Coatue, a16z, and others to sidestep illiquid stock, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $100M+ valuation — Andreessen Horowitz led a $40 million funding round for The Coterie, valuing the financial technology platform at more than $100 million.
Ahead of the midterms, US political campaigns are using voter-profiling companies and vast amounts of data to target campaign ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon — To help campaigns target ads, voter-profiling firms score millions of Americans on issues like guns, vaccines and QAnon.
Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times : UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published...
