a16z, Animoca Brands and other launch partners received 14% of 1B ApeCoins airdropped, which could give them substantial leverage in the ApeCoin DAO (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
a16z, Animoca Brands and other launch partners received 14% of ApeCoin 1B airdropped, which could give them substantial influence on the ApeCoin DAO– Bored Ape Yacht Club is a wildly…
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Instacart plans to add a $0.40 fee to orders “over the next month” that goes to shoppers to help with gas prices, even if shopper’s cars are hybrid or electric (Kim Lyons/The Verge)
Instacart plans to add a $0.40 fee to orders “over the next month” that goes to shoppers to help with gas prices, even if shopper’s cars are hybrid or electric—…
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Twitter and Meta removed posts by Russia’s embassy in London that claimed images from the Mariupol hospital bombing in Ukraine were fake (Jon Fingas/Engadget)
Twitter and Meta removed posts by Russia’s embassy in London that claimed images from the Mariupol hospital bombing in Ukraine were fake— Major social networks aren’t done cracking down on…
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US prosecutors accuse two men of carrying out a music royalties scam, raising more than $ 20 million on YouTube, by falsely claiming the rights to 50,000 songs in Spanish (Lukas I. Alpert / MarketWatch)
US Prosecutors Accuse Two Men of Carrying Out Music Royalty Scam, Raising Over $ 20 Million on YouTube, Falsely Claiming Rights to 50,000 Songs in Spanish– Prosecutors say the men…
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Q&A with Cory Hrncirik, Microsoft’s Modern Finance project lead, on flattening the company’s finance head count with AI and data lakes, using Excel, and more (Nina Trentmann/Wall Street Journal)
Q&A with Cory Hrncirik, Microsoft’s Modern Finance project lead, on flattening the company’s finance head count with AI and data lakes, using Excel, and more— The new tools help automate…
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Bangladesh’s ShopUp, which aims to digitize neighborhood stores in the country, raises $75M Series B led by Valar Ventures, bringing its total raised to $100M+ (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Bangladesh’s ShopUp, which aims to digitize neighborhood stores in the country, raises $75M Series B led by Valar Ventures, bringing its total raised to $100M+ — ShopUp, a startup that…
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After leaving Meta, Brandon Silverman, co-founder of CrowdTangle, acquired by Facebook, helped craft a bipartisan bill to boost social media transparency (Ben Smith / New York Times)
After leaving Meta, Brandon Silverman, co-founder of CrowdTangle, acquired by Facebook, helped craft a bipartisan bill to boost social media transparency– CrowdTangle co-founder worked with Congress on legislation to force…
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