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Kellen Browning / New York Times: Félix Lengyel, aka xQc, a Twitch streamer with 12M followers, signs a ~$100M deal with Kick, a streaming service backed by Australian gaming and gambling sites  —  The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes’ contracts, and is another sign … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Ingram / NBC News: Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk’s aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow  —  Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Filing: Tiger Global has so far raised just $2B+ for a fund targeting $6B after eight months; US venture firms raised nearly $12B in Q1 2023, down 73% YoY  —  Group has raised just over $2bn for a vehicle targeting $6bn amid scepticism over tech valuations  —  Tiger Global is falling short … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kellen Browning / New York Times: Félix Lengyel, aka xQc, a Twitch streamer with 12M followers, signs a ~$100M deal with Kick, a streaming service backed by Australian gaming and gambling sites  —  The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes’ contracts, and is another sign … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Filing: Tiger Global raised just $2B+ for a fund targeting $6B after eight months; US venture firms raised nearly $12B in Q1, down 73% YoY  —  Group has raised just over $2bn for a vehicle targeting $6bn amid scepticism over tech valuations  —  Tiger Global is falling short in its latest attempt … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired: Stack Overflow removed gender and race questions from its 2023 user survey, citing privacy concerns, after its 2022 survey found that 92% of its users were men  —  The coding hub’s 2022 survey found that 92 percent of its users were men.  This time around it simply dropped the question. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: A “Reddit API Fact Sheet” says the company does not plan to “unilaterally” reopen subreddits; Reddit’s rules may let the platform replace protesting moderators  —  “We are not shutting down discussions or unilaterally reopening communities,” reads a line from a … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: Reddit says that 80% of the site’s top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 4K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12  —  Reddit Inc. said that most of the company’s communities were operating as normal — four days after a protest that shut … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: France probes Binance over alleged illegal digital asset services and poor money laundering checks; Binance exits the Netherlands after failing to get a license  —  Binance is suspected of illegally providing digital asset services to local customers, and implementing poor money laundering checks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: NY AG’s documents: Tether once counted Chinese companies’ securities among its reserves; in July 2022, Tether claimed not to be holding Chinese commercial paper  —  Tether Holdings Ltd. once counted securities issued by Chinese companies among the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin … Lees verder op Tech Meme