How Twitter is gearing up for most ambitious quarter of user growth?

Twitter is gearing up for its most ambitious quarter of user growth ever, leaders of the social media company's consumer products division told staff. It is the highest goal the team has ever set, leaders told staff. They added that Twitter is on track to reach the goal and has currently achieved 8.5 million in user growth, one of the best growth quarters to date. https://ift.tt/W9RmK1u

Grab plans to start selling its mapping data and map-making abilities to businesses, in an effort to become profitable (Shotaro Tani/Financial Times)

Shotaro Tani / Financial Times:
Grab plans to start selling its mapping data and map-making abilities to businesses, in an effort to become profitable  —  South-east Asian ride-hailing and food delivery app to expand enterprise unit in drive to become profitable  —  South-east Asian super app Grab will start selling …

A profile of Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments services provider valued at $2.2B in November, which had $75M+ in revenue in 2021, up over 4x YoY (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)

Jeff Kauflin / Forbes:
A profile of Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments services provider valued at $2.2B in November, which had $75M+ in revenue in 2021, up over 4x YoY  —  A pair of twentysomethings from Uganda and Ghana thought there was a fortune to be made bringing transnational financial services to Africa's 1.2 billion people.

EU lawmakers reach an agreement on legislation that will mandate USB-C on smartphones and other electronic devices, starting in fall 2024, to reduce e-waste (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
EU lawmakers reach an agreement on legislation that will mandate USB-C on smartphones and other electronic devices, starting in fall 2024, to reduce e-waste  —  A major blow to Apple's Lightning port  —  European Union lawmakers have reached an agreement on legislation that will force …

How Ukrainian civilians are helping the army using apps, blurring the lines between civilians and soldiers, raising questions of international humanitarian law (Lukasz Olejnik/Wired)

Lukasz Olejnik / Wired:
How Ukrainian civilians are helping the army using apps, blurring the lines between civilians and soldiers, raising questions of international humanitarian law  —  In Ukraine, civilians are valiantly assisting the army via apps—and challenging a tenet of international law in the process.

An in-depth look at attempts by the US to prosecute hot-headed coder Joshua Schulte, who allegedly leaked the CIA's hacking arsenal, ahead of his June 13 trial (Patrick Radden Keefe/New Yorker)

Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:
An in-depth look at attempts by the US to prosecute hot-headed coder Joshua Schulte, who allegedly leaked the CIA's hacking arsenal, ahead of his June 13 trial  —  A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency's hacking arsenal.  Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues?