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Shopify stock down 13% after earnings miss, $2.1 billion acquisition of logistics start-up
An employee works at Shopify’s headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Chris Wattie | Reuters Shares of Shopify plunged more than 13% in premarket trading on Thursday after the company reported first-quarter results that missed analysts’ estimates, and said it will acquire logistics start-up Deliverr for $2.1 billion in cash and stock. Shopify posted adjusted earnings […]
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Chinese tech giant NetEase launches first gaming studio in U.S. in international push
NetEase’s U.S. game studio called Jackalope Games highlights the Chinese tech giant’s aggressive interntational push as the domestic game market faces headwinds. Xing Yun | Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Chinese gaming giant NetEase has launched its first fully-owned gaming studio in the U.S. as it ramps up international expansion against the backdrop […]
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EBay and Etsy drop on weak guidance as e-commerce crunch continues
An employee walks past a quilt displaying Etsy Inc. signage at the company’s headquarters in the Brooklyn. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images Etsy and eBay reported better-than-expected first-quarter results after the bell on Wednesday, but the companies gave weak guidance for the current quarter that suggests the e-commerce sector is cooling off after a […]
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France becomes first big European nation to grant crypto giant Binance regulatory approval
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao gave a keynote at a Paris crypto industry event in April 2022 to debut a new accelerator program for so-called “Web3” start-ups. Benjamin Girette | Bloomberg | Getty Images Binance has been granted approval from regulators to operate its cryptocurrency exchange in France. The company is now listed as a registered […]
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Elon Musk Twitter profile change briefly sends token of Bored Ape NFT project soaring
The Bored Ape NFT collection has garnered a cult-like following since its inception in April 2021. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk on Wednesday changed his profile picture on Twitter to an image featuring various avatars from the Bored Ape non-fungible token collection, sending the price of the project’s digital token soaring. […]
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Elon Musk invited to discuss $44 billion Twitter deal in UK Parliament
Musk’s plan to buy Twitter has worried policymakers around the world. Joe Skipper | Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been invited to testify in the U.K. Parliament about his deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Julian Knight, who chairs the parliamentary committee on digital, culture, media and sport, sent Musk a letter requesting […]
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Buy now, pay later will soon affect your credit score in the UK
Buy now, pay later giant Klarna says it will start reporting data on customers’ usage of its products to credit bureaus in the U.K., gearing up for incoming regulations aimed at reining in the sector over fears it is putting young people into debt. Starting June 1, the Swedish fintech firm will share information on […]
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How Ireland lost its chance to become Big Tech’s ‘super regulator’
Many of the largest U.S. tech firms hold their European headquarters in Dublin. Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Incoming EU rules forcing Big Tech to police content on the internet more aggressively will be enforced directly by the European Commission, a move experts say will diminish the role Ireland has played so far […]
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The crypto industry wants to go green — but that’s easier said than done
BODEN, Sweden — Tucked away in snowy Swedish Lapland is a modern-day gold mine. But instead of picks and shovels, it’s filled with thousands of computers. These machines, known as mining rigs, are working around the clock to find new units of cryptocurrency — in this case, ethereum, the second-largest token globally. To do so, […]
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Amazon has bold ambitions to take on SpaceX in the satellite internet business
Amazon has a plan to deliver internet from space using 3,236 small satellites in low Earth orbit. It’s called Project Kuiper. In April, the company signed a multibillion-dollar contract — the largest rocket deal in the history of the commercial space industry — for launches of its Kuiper satellites with three different entities: Jeff Bezos’s […]
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