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Sources: ByteDance is tapping banks, including Citigroup and JPMorgan, for a $9.5B loan, the biggest dollar-denominated corporate loan in Asia excluding Japan (Chien Mi Wong/Bloomberg)

Sources: ByteDance is tapping banks, including Cit...

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OKX says OKX SG received a Major Payment Institution license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and appoints former Grab exec Gracie Lin as OKX SG CEO (Bloomberg)

OKX says OKX SG received a Major Payment Instituti...

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Apple is gearing up for a battle with app makers and legislators over whether regulation of teen's social media use should happen in apps or at the device level (Wall Street Journal)

Apple is gearing up for a battle with app makers a...

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According to a court filing on August 30, SEC seeks a change in the FTX's bankruptcy plan and says it may challenge any distributions involving crypto assets (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

According to a court filing on August 30, SEC seek...

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A look at Amazon's and Bezos Earth Fund's growing influence on the carbon credit market, as experts worry about how Big Tech aims to achieve tough climate goals (Kenza Bryan/Financial Times)

A look at Amazon's and Bezos Earth Fund's growing ...

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Sources: China has threatened Japan of severe economic retaliation if Japan further restricts sales and servicing of chipmaking equipment to Chinese firms (Bloomberg)

Sources: China has threatened Japan of severe econ...

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Fidelity's latest valuation of X, 72% lower than when Musk took over, would mean top investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud is down $1.4B and Ellison $720M (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)

Fidelity's latest valuation of X, 72% lower than w...

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A look at Sub.club, which aims to let users on ActivityPub-based platforms monetize content via subscriptions while taking a 6% cut, available in dev preview (Jay Peters/The Verge)

A look at Sub.club, which aims to let users on Act...

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Dune Analytics: Pump.fun has generated over $100M in cumulative revenue from more than 1M memecoins created on the platform since its launch in January 2024 (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Dune Analytics: Pump.fun has generated over $100M ...

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Sources: Pat Gelsinger aims to present Intel's board ideas to cut capex spending and more, like halting the $32B chip plant project in Germany or selling Altera (Reuters)

Sources: Pat Gelsinger aims to present Intel's boa...

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A US court ordered Nigerian businessman Dozy Mmobuosi, founder of NJ-based Tingo, to pay $250M+ in fines after SEC alleged he inflated Tingo's financial records (Aanu Adeoye/Financial Times)

A US court ordered Nigerian businessman Dozy Mmobu...

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A look at NightCafe, a bootstrapped generative art marketplace with 25M users who created ~1B images; source: it has $4M annualized revenue with a ~50% margin (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

A look at NightCafe, a bootstrapped generative art...

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A look at NightCafe, a bootstrapped generative art marketplace with 25M users who created ~1B images; source: it has $4M annualized revenue with a ~50% margin (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

A look at NightCafe, a bootstrapped generative art...

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A look at Apple's strategy to keep retiring execs involved in a reduced role; sources: M4 Mac mini will have 5 USB-C ports, internal power supply, and no USB-A (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A look at Apple's strategy to keep retiring execs ...

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A look at the surge of interest-based sites as users grow weary of big platforms; MAUs for Letterboxd, Strava, and AllTrails grew 55%, 20%, and 10% YoY in H1 (Teresa Xie/Bloomberg)

A look at the surge of interest-based sites as use...

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A look at France's J3 cybercrime unit behind Sky ECC and Encrochat prosecutions, which now leads the case against Telegram's Pavel Durov (Gabriel Stargardter/Reuters)

A look at France's J3 cybercrime unit behind Sky E...

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Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or testing AI tools and chatbots to generate icebreakers, coach users, and more, in a bid to bring back users (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or ...

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Big YouTube shows including Hot Ones and Good Mythical Morning attract large audiences but aren't yet getting Primetime Emmy nominations and ensuing ad revenue (Wall Street Journal)

Big YouTube shows including Hot Ones and Good Myth...

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