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Docs: investments in 4chan include $800K from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, $4.8M from his company, and $2.4M from Tokyo-based Good Smile, which makes Disney toys (Justin Ling/Wired) 29-03-2023

Justin Ling / Wired: Docs: investments in 4chan include $800K from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, $4.8M from his company, and $2.4M from Tokyo-based Good Smile, which makes Disney toys  —  Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Gemini is preparing to launch an international crypto derivatives exchange to offer perpetual futures, which US regulations prohibit for retail traders (Akash Pasricha/The Information) 29-03-2023

Akash Pasricha / The Information: Sources: Gemini is preparing to launch an international crypto derivatives exchange to offer perpetual futures, which US regulations prohibit for retail traders  —  Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has been gearing up to launch an international cryptocurrency … Lees verder op Tech Meme

EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incurring $170M to $200M in restructuring charges; EA had nearly 13,000 employees in mid-2022 (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal) 29-03-2023

Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incurring $170M to $200M in restructuring charges; EA had nearly 13,000 employees in mid-2022  —  Publisher of ‘Madden NFL’ and other videogame series is also making office-space reductions  —  White-Collar Recession: Why Job Cuts Are Hitting Professional Workers Lees verder op Tech Meme

NYC-based LeapXpert, which monitors staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, and iMessage for compliance, raised a $22M Series A+ led by Rockefeller (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 29-03-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based LeapXpert, which monitors staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, and iMessage for compliance, raised a $22M Series A+ led by Rockefeller  —  The pandemic brought with it a spike in work-from-home and hybrid work, which increased peoples’ dependence on personal devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme

How NetEase and Activision's 14-year partnership fell apart, in part due to China's tech crackdown, as filings show the deal was worth ~$750M in annual revenue (New York Times) 29-03-2023

New York Times: How NetEase and Activision’s 14-year partnership fell apart, in part due to China’s tech crackdown, as filings show the deal was worth ~$750M in annual revenue  —  Activision Blizzard and NetEase could not agree on a new deal to distribute video games in China, cutting millions of players from the games in January. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Docs: Binance's CEO and other executives hid the company's China ties for years, including an office used until 2019, despite saying Binance left China in 2017 (Scott Chipolina/Financial Times) 29-03-2023

Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: Docs: Binance’s CEO and other executives hid the company’s China ties for years, including an office used until 2019, despite saying Binance left China in 2017  —  Company documents show crypto exchange relied on country long after it said it had left in 2017 Lees verder op Tech Meme