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TikTok-owner ByteDance’s aggressive mobile gaming push is paying off as player spending grows
ByteDance has been investing in its mobile gaming business through key acquisitions and is finding success outside of China. Omar Marques | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Chinese internet giant ByteDance’s nascent foray into gaming is showing signs of promise with spending across its mobile titles growing over the past year as it […]
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Chinese influencers must now have a qualification to talk about certain topics like law and medicine
Chinese regulators have been looking to clean up the country’s popular livestreaming industry. This includes rules around what online influencers can and can’t say and the topics that are off limits. Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Online influencers in China must now have a qualification to talk about certain topics such as law […]
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Southeast Asia’s start-ups have fired hundreds of workers, and this may be just the beginning
Southeast Asia’s tech companies are laying off workers as they brace themselves for a tougher fundraising environment. Guilliermo Perales Gonzalez | E+ | Getty Images Hundreds of workers from start-ups in Southeast Asia have been fired in the last few months, proving that the fast-growing industry is not immune to the global economic slowdown. At […]
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Amazon demonstrates Alexa mimicking the voice of a deceased relative
Amazon is devising a way for users to speak to their family members through its Alexa voice assistant, even after they’ve died. At Amazon’s Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist for the Alexa team, detailed a feature that allows the voice assistant to replicate a specific […]
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Amazon CEO acknowledges loss of Black leaders in internal memo
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy acknowledged losing two top Black executives, who led warehouses and transportation, in a company email Tuesday night. Jassy’s email sang the executives’ praises, adding that he’s “truly sorry to […]
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Bitcoin billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried bails out embattled crypto firms BlockFi and Voyager
With no central bank willing to come to the rescue, beleaguered crypto companies are turning to their peers for help. Billionaire crypto exchange boss Sam Bankman-Fried has signed deals to bail out two firms in as many weeks: BlockFi, a quasi-bank, and Voyager Digital, a digital asset brokerage. FTX, Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange, agreed Tuesday to […]
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Another ‘algorithmic’ stablecoin has fallen below its $1 peg — but experts say it’s not ‘Terra 2.0’
Cryptocurrencies have been under immense pressure after the collapse of a so-called stablecoin called terraUSD. Umit Turhan Coskun | Nurphoto via Getty Images A controversial stablecoin launched just before the collapse of a similar token called terraUSD is struggling to maintain its peg to the U.S. dollar. USDD, a so-called “algorithmic” stablecoin that’s meant to […]
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Bitcoin could plunge even further to a low of $13,000, one strategist warns
If crypto’s past bubbles are anything to go by, bitcoin could be about to fall much further. That’s according to one strategist, who warns the world’s top cryptocurrency is likely to tank as low as $13,000 — an almost 40% drop from current levels. “We would still be selling these kinds of cryptocurrencies into this […]
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South Korea puts crypto company Terraform Labs’ staff on no-fly list
The collapse of the Terra ecosystem will go down as one of the most painful and devastating chapters in crypto history. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg via Getty Images Several employees of South Korea-based Terraform labs, the company behind the stablecoin TerraUSD, which collapsed last month and roiled cryptocurrency markets, cannot leave the country, prosecutors said. […]
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Amazon loses two Black executives, including one on leadership team
Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg via Getty Images Amazon is losing two top executives who lead warehouses and transportation. Alicia Boler-Davis, senior vice president of global customer fulfillment and a member of the company’s leadership team, and David Bozeman, VP of Amazon Transportation Services, are departing the company, according to people familiar with the matter. Both were among […]
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