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Microsoft plans to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7B in cash, or $95/share, closing in FY 2023; Bobby Kotick will remain as CEO, reporting to Phil Spencer — Legendary games, immersive interactive entertainment and publishing expertise accelerate growth in Microsoft's Gaming business across mobile, PC, console and cloud.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Xbox Game Pass has 25M subscribers, up from 18M in January 2021 — Microsoft's all-you-can-eat catalog of games is getting bigger, and now it's adding Activision Blizzard — Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass service now has 25 million subscribers.
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Xbox Wire, Destructoid, GameSpot, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @swiftonsecurity, @penllawen, @kylebrussell, and @tomwarren
| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com halted withdrawals and requires users to re-sign-in and reset 2FA; research shows Crypto.com lost 4,600+ ETH, worth $15M+, during a suspected hack — The crypto exchange has reportedly lost at least $15 million in Ethereum, and security experts believe the true losses could be much higher.
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| Ashley Rodriguez / Insider: |
Social Capital founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says the “ugly truth” is “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghurs in China, himself included — - Chamath Palihapitiya said “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghur Muslims in China.
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung unveils its 4nm Exynos 2200 SoC with an Xclipse GPU using AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, offering hardware-accelerated ray tracing and variable rate shading — The processor packs Samsung's own Xclipse GPU based on AMD RDNA 2 architecture that the South Korean company says will offer …
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| Jeffrey Knockel / The Citizen Lab: |
China's MY2022 Olympics app, mandatory for attendees to report travel and health data, has serious encryption flaws and contains censorship keyword lists — Key Findings — MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw …
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Animoca Brands, an NFT and metaverse service, raises $359M led by Liberty City at a $5B valuation, up from $2.2B in October 2021 — Soros Fund Management and the Winklevoss twins' venture capital firm are among investors in a funding round that's more than doubled the valuation of Animoca Brands Corp. …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Analysis: Meta has filed dozens of patents to monetize its metaverse, including a virtual store with sponsored items, eye and face tracking in headsets, more — Meta hopes to use tiny human expressions to create virtual world of personalised ads — Pupil movements, body poses and nose scrunching …
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Insider, Benzinga, and TechRadar
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| Lucy Harley-Mckeown / The Block: |
The UK government will increase scrutiny of crypto ads, bringing the marketing in line with other financial promotions, citing risk to buyers — Quick Take — HM Treasury said it would ramp up scrutiny of crypto advertising in the UK. — The move will bring crypto marketing within …
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CoinDesk, Engadget, Finextra, ZDNet, CNBC, BetaNews, CryptoPotato, and Bankless Times
Tweets: @paullewismoney, @johnglenuk, and @alihussainst
| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Binance conducted its first Binance Coin (BNB) auto-burn last quarter, removing over 1.6M BNB tokens worth $750M from circulation — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance implemented its first-ever binance token (BNB) auto-burn program last quarter, removing over 1.6 million BNB tokens worth $750 million from circulation.
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Tweets: @cz_binance and @icodrops
| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Sources: the US government is reviewing Alibaba's cloud business to determine potential national security risks, including how it stores US clients' data — The Biden administration is reviewing e-commerce giant Alibaba's cloud business to determine whether it poses a risk to U.S. national security … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Istanbul-based mobile game developer Dream Games, which makes Royal Match, raises $255M led by Index Ventures at a $2.75B valuation, up from $1B in June 2021 — - Istanbul-based mobile game developer Dream Games has raised $255 million in a new round of funding, the company told CNBC.
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TechCrunch, Tech.eu, GamesIndustry.biz, Index Ventures, and Balderton Capital. Thanks:@ryan_browne_
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
The Tech Oversight Project, mainly funded by Pierre Omidyar and Chris Hughes' organizations, launches Tuesday to push for Big Tech antitrust regulation — Organizations with ties to eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes are the primary funders of the Tech Oversight Project
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| Financial Times: |
An in-depth look at Sony's ambition to become the world's most fully integrated entertainment company across movie blockbusters, music catalogs, and PlayStation — The Japanese corporation is on the cusp of full integration but critics say it needs to be wary of distractions like electric vehicles
Tweets: @grimes_ce, @haranikkei, and @ivan_brussels
| Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Pinwheel, which offers APIs to fintechs for payroll, income, and other data, raises a $50M Series B at a $500M valuation, following a $20M Series A in June 2021 — Six months after its $20 million Series A, payroll connectivity platform Pinwheel just announced that it has nabbed another $50 million …
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| Canalys: |
Apple accounted for 22% of global smartphone shipments in Q4 2021, down from 23% in 2020, followed by Samsung (20%), Xiaomi (12%), Oppo (9%), and Vivo (8%) — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Tuesday, 18 January 2022
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