Journals

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft briefly unseated Apple as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company in early trading on Thursday but closed out the day under Apple  —  – Microsoft on Thursday briefly unseated Apple as the world’s most… Read More »Microsoft briefly unseated Apple as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company in early trading on Thursday but closed out the day under Apple (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at SEC’s hilariously grudging approval of bitcoin ETFs and the likelihood that they will be “physical” ETFs or interest-paying ETFs in the future  —  A store of value, grudging SEC statements, interest-paying Bitcoin ETFs,… Read More »A look at SEC’s hilariously grudging approval of bitcoin ETFs and the likelihood that they will be “physical” ETFs or interest-paying ETFs in the future (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

Jon Victor / The Information: Alphabet Union says Wednesday’s layoffs at Google impacted more than 1,000 people, making it the largest round of cuts since January 2023  —  A spokesman for a union representing workers at Google’s owner, Alphabet, said… Read More »Alphabet Union says Wednesday’s layoffs at Google impacted more than 1,000 people, making it the largest round of cuts since January 2023 (Jon Victor/The Information)

Alex Koller / CNBC: Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers to improve online shopping, including a chatbot that can offer product recommendations to consumers  —  – Google launched several new AI tools for retailers to improve online… Read More »Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers to improve online shopping, including a chatbot that can offer product recommendations to consumers (Alex Koller/CNBC)

Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press: eBay will pay $3M to resolve charges over a harassment campaign by staffers who sent spiders and other disturbing items to those behind the EcommerceBytes blog  —  Online retailer eBay Inc. will pay a… Read More »eBay will pay $3M to resolve charges over a harassment campaign by staffers who sent spiders and other disturbing items to those behind the EcommerceBytes blog (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: 1X, an OpenAI-backed developer of humanoid robots with plans to bring its bipedal robot NEO to the market, raised a $100M Series B from EQT Ventures and others  —  1X Technologies, a Norwegian startup robotics startup… Read More »1X, an OpenAI-backed developer of humanoid robots with plans to bring its bipedal robot NEO to the market, raised a $100M Series B from EQT Ventures and others (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat)

Alex Heath / The Verge: Internal memo: Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company is laying off 17% of its staff, or 170 people, after growing its workforce “by 5x since 2020”  —  Discord is laying off 17 percent of… Read More »Internal memo: Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company is laying off 17% of its staff, or 170 people, after growing its workforce “by 5x since 2020” (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Google formally endorses right to repair and will testify in favor of a law in Oregon, says regulators should ban “parts pairing”, a tactic used by Apple  —  Google says repair should be easy and… Read More »Google formally endorses right to repair and will testify in favor of a law in Oregon, says regulators should ban “parts pairing”, a tactic used by Apple (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: Some crypto advocates welcome bitcoin ETFs as an inevitable part of going mainstream, while others worry they threaten the original promise of decentralization  —  They make the asset class “less of a scary concept” to mainstream… Read More »Some crypto advocates welcome bitcoin ETFs as an inevitable part of going mainstream, while others worry they threaten the original promise of decentralization (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: Canada partners with SecurityScorecard to assess the cyber resilience of companies critical to the country’s infrastructure and assign them letter grades  —  – Country partnering with SecurityScorecard to assess resilience  — Biden official raised possibility of… Read More »Canada partners with SecurityScorecard to assess the cyber resilience of companies critical to the country’s infrastructure and assign them letter grades (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)