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Identity verification startup Persona, which has 3,000+ clients, raised a $200M Series D led by Ribbit at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $417M (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Identity verification startup Persona, which has 3...

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Sources: Shein is exploring ways to restructure its US business if Trump sticks with punitive tariffs on Chinese imports; the de minimis exemption closes May 2 (Financial Times)

Sources: Shein is exploring ways to restructure it...

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Adyen reports Q1 net revenue up 22% YoY to €534.7M, below €539.6M est., and processed payment volume up 6% YoY to €314.8B, below est.; ADYEN drops ~5% (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)

Adyen reports Q1 net revenue up 22% YoY to €534.7M...

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Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company would take the US government to court if necessary to protect European customers' access to its services (Financial Times)

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company wo...

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EA says it laid off staff and canceled "two early-stage incubation projects"; sources say EA cut 300 to 400 roles and its Respawn unit canceled a Titanfall game (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

EA says it laid off staff and canceled "two early-...

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Sources: Huawei has sold 10+ sets of its AI chip cluster CloudMatrix 384, including to data centers that serve Chinese tech companies, in a bid to rival Nvidia (Financial Times)

Sources: Huawei has sold 10+ sets of its AI chip c...

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Filing: PayPal says the US SEC concluded its investigation into PayPal USD stablecoin in February 2025 "without enforcement action" (Martin Young/Cointelegraph)

Filing: PayPal says the US SEC concluded its inves...

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Samsung says that "growing policy risks" would increase uncertainty for its chip business, while tariffs would raise prices for smartphone components and TVs (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

Samsung says that "growing policy risks" would inc...

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Xiaomi unveils open-source AI reasoning model MiMo, joining other Chinese tech leaders hoping to make a splash in the burgeoning AI field endorsed by Beijing (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

Xiaomi unveils open-source AI reasoning model MiMo...

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The US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster may set the tone for how the Trump administration approaches competition policy (Financial Times)

The US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up...

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IAB: full-time US digital creator jobs grew from 200,000 in 2020 to 1.5M in 2024; the internet-supported economy accounts for 18% of US GDP, up from 2% in 2008 (Axios)

IAB: full-time US digital creator jobs grew from 2...

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Beauhurst: UK equity crowdfunding, once one of fintech's hottest trends, fell 58% from its 2021 peak to £335M in 2024, and dropped ~60% YoY in Q1 2025 to £42.6M (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Beauhurst: UK equity crowdfunding, once one of fin...

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Streams Charts: YouTube was the most-watched livestreaming platform in Q1 2025, with 50% of total watch hours, followed by TikTok with 27% and Twitch with 16% (James Hale/Tubefilter)

Streams Charts: YouTube was the most-watched lives...

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Online graphic design platform Freepik unveils F Lite, a 10B-parameter "open" AI image model that it says was trained on ~80M licensed, "safe-for-work" images (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Online graphic design platform Freepik unveils F L...

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Sources: NRAI, India's largest restaurant body, pauses onboarding of members onto ONDC over the platform's operational issues and a lack of strategic commitment (Aryaman Gupta/Moneycontrol)

Sources: NRAI, India's largest restaurant body, pa...

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TSMC has begun building a third fab in Arizona, announcing the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)

TSMC has begun building a third fab in Arizona, an...

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At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella said 20%-30% of code in Microsoft's repositories was written by AI and the company was seeing more progress in Python and less in C++ (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella said 20%-30% of code in...

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In Q1 2025, Cloudflare blocked 20.5M DDoS attacks, a 358% YoY increase, and in Q2 it blocked an attack with, by far, the most intense packet rate on record (The Cloudflare Blog)

In Q1 2025, Cloudflare blocked 20.5M DDoS attacks,...

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