Archive for May 21st, 2008
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Posted by: amygdala on May 21, 2008
- Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, including $1.5B for seed investments, its fourth and largest such fund (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
- An in-depth look at Meta's ongoing battle to keep Facebook and Instagram relevant as TikTok's growth explodes, including encouraging creators to use Reels (Bloomberg)
- After actor and producer Seth Green lost his BAYC NFTs to a phishing scam, his show based on those NFTs is in doubt; OpenSea says it has frozen the NFTs (Sarah Emerson/BuzzFeed News)
- UK payments startup Paddle acquires ProfitWell, which makes financial analytics tools, for $200M in cash and equity; Paddle raised $200M earlier in May (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)
- Researchers discover that a popular Python library "ctx" and PHP package "phpass" have been compromised to steal developers' AWS keys and credentials (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)
- Study: Amazon's third-party delivery drivers had an injury rate of one per five full-time-equivalent workers in 2021, up 38% YoY, above other delivery drivers (Aaron Gordon/VICE)
- A researcher says Australia's New South Wales digital driver's license is easy to forge due to deficient encryption, data validation flaws, and other issues (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Indian startups are resorting to layoffs, hiring freezes, shutting down non-core verticals, and rationalizing ad spends as a two-year funding spree slows down (Moneycontrol)
- DeFi Llama: the total value locked across all DeFi protocols has dropped to ~$112B, down from ~$195B at the start of May before UST and LUNA collapse (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
- Stripe partners with OpenNode to let businesses convert fiat payments into bitcoin via OpenNode's Stripe app; Stripe suspended bitcoin support in 2018 (Shawn Amick/Bitcoin Magazine)
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