Journals

Financial Times: A look at the rising subscription prices of dating apps as competition intensifies and growth slows down; data.ai: consumers spent $5B+ on dating apps in 2023  —  Get ahead in 2024  —  Have January on us  —  Pay… Read More »A look at the rising subscription prices of dating apps as competition intensifies and growth slows down; data.ai: consumers spent $5B+ on dating apps in 2023 (Financial Times)

Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: Filing: JD-backed Dada Nexus is investigating “suspicious practices”, including a ~$140M overstatement of revenue and costs in 2023, triggering a 46% stock dive  —  – Dada discloses it may have overstated both revenue and cost  —… Read More »Filing: JD-backed Dada Nexus is investigating “suspicious practices”, including a ~$140M overstatement of revenue and costs in 2023, triggering a 46% stock dive (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: TikTok restricts Creative Center, used by advertisers to track hashtags, after it was used by critics to scrutinize content on the Israel-Hamas war and more  —  People and groups had harnessed the tool to… Read More »TikTok restricts Creative Center, used by advertisers to track hashtags, after it was used by critics to scrutinize content on the Israel-Hamas war and more (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times)

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Elliott Management has built a ~$1B stake in Match Group and plans to push the online dating company to take steps to boost its languishing stock  —  Activist has roughly $1 billion stake… Read More »Sources: Elliott Management has built a ~$1B stake in Match Group and plans to push the online dating company to take steps to boost its languishing stock (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Josh Ye / Reuters: ByteDance says it is in talks with multiple prospective buyers, including Tencent, to sell its Nuverse gaming unit as part of a plan to exit the gaming industry  —  TikTok owner ByteDance said on Tuesday it… Read More »ByteDance says it is in talks with multiple prospective buyers, including Tencent, to sell its Nuverse gaming unit as part of a plan to exit the gaming industry (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Sony teases a “spatial” VR headset designed for 3D content creation with 4K OLED microdisplays and powered by Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, available later in 2024  —  The company showed off the headset along with… Read More »Sony teases a “spatial” VR headset designed for 3D content creation with 4K OLED microdisplays and powered by Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, available later in 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: The Mayo Clinic partners with Cerebras to use Cerebras’ computing chips and systems to develop its own AI models based on anonymized medical records and data  —  The Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit medical center based in… Read More »The Mayo Clinic partners with Cerebras to use Cerebras’ computing chips and systems to develop its own AI models based on anonymized medical records and data (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Axios: Sources: Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock  —  Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock, Axios… Read More »Sources: Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock (Axios)

Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Asus announces its first mini-PC, the ROG NUC, featuring Intel Core Ultra CPUs, up to an Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU, quad 4K display support, and Wi-Fi 6E  —  ASUS has introduced its first ROG NUC Mini… Read More »Asus announces its first mini-PC, the ROG NUC, featuring Intel Core Ultra CPUs, up to an Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU, quad 4K display support, and Wi-Fi 6E (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

Ben Goggin / NBC News: Former X VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin joins Stability AI to oversee its strategy and implementation of safeguarding around issues like child safety and IP  —  Irwin resigned from X in June after… Read More »Former X VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin joins Stability AI to oversee its strategy and implementation of safeguarding around issues like child safety and IP (Ben Goggin/NBC News)