Coinbase requests to file an amicus brief to support Ripple's case against the US SEC, which sued Ripple for allegedly selling XRP as an unregistered security (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Anchorage Digital plans to custody a "significant portion" of Apollo Global's crypto portfolio and offer crypto custody services to Apollo's clients (Andrew Throuvalas/Decrypt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

SEC filing: Jack Dorsey has agreed to rollover his remaining 2.4% in Twitter, worth over $1B, into X Holdings, an amount Elon Musk won't have to pay (Kali Hays/Insider) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Sources: the EU is set to launch an in-depth probe into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal after Microsoft opted not to file remedies to antitrust enforcers (Samuel Stolton/Politico) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 of his trusted Tesla employees, mostly software engineers from the Autopilot team, to help at Twitter (Lora Kolodny/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Elon Musk told Twitter engineers to work on a Vine reboot that may be ready by the end of 2022; Twitter acquired Vine in 2012 and shut it down in 2016 (Axios) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Debunking five myths that may be sinking Meta's stock, including claims of Facebook users deserting, Instagram engagement falling, and TikTok dominating (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

CoinGecko: normalized exchange volume for Crypto.com has dropped 91% over the past year, 90% for Huobi, 77% for FTX, 75% for Coinbase, and 57% for Binance (Stacy Elliott/Decrypt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Sources: US-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple faces US federal probes into whether it improperly financed and transferred tech to a Chinese startup (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Twitter plans to change Twitter Blue into a $19.99 subscription that verifies users; staff are told they will be fired if they don't build it by Nov. 7 (Alex Heath/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Interview with Gerard de Graaf, director of a new EU office in San Francisco, on the DMA taking force on November 1 and its likely impact on tech companies (Khari Johnson/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges (Casey Newton/Platformer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Musk ordered Twitter homepage to be changed to show the Explore page to logged out users, not a sign-up form, which was quietly implemented on Friday (Alex Heath/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

How the detention of Huawei's then CFO Meng Wanzhou to stand trial in the US provoked a standoff between global powers and splintered US-China relations (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Source: Elon Musk fired top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, "for cause", in an apparent attempt to avoid severance and unvested stock payouts (Martin Peers/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

New Orleans-based Resilia, which sells software to help nonprofits manage their operations, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to ~$50M (Jared Council/Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Dogecoin surged by nearly 75% on Saturday after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, its biggest daily gain since April 2021, as it rallied 150% since October 25 (Yashu Gola/Cointelegraph) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Elon Musk plans to begin layoffs at Twitter as soon as Saturday, to take place before November 1, when staff were scheduled to receive stock grants (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

A look at an online reputation laundering market for victims of Nigeria's unlicensed, predatory loan apps, which publicly shame borrowers who can't pay (Olatunji Olaigbe/Rest of World) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

[Thread] Musk made himself the global face of content moderation amid growing governmental pressures, even as his wealth via Tesla depends on China and others (Alex Stamos/@alexstamos) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Court filing: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, Within CEO Chris Milk, and others to testify in the FTC case against Meta's acquisition of Within (Ismail Shakil/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

eMarketer: US advertisers are on track to spend $65.3B on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks in 2022, up just 3.6% YoY, and ~10x slower than in 2021 (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

General Motors says it is suspending advertising on Twitter as it evaluates the "direction of the platform under their new ownership" (CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Apple stock closes up 7.56%, its best day since April 2020; it was the second-best performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average behind Intel on Friday (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech as she was the most responsible for Twitter's unmatched record defending "actual" free speech globally (Mike Masnick/Techdirt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Some users test the limits of Twitter's moderation system following Musk's takeover by using profane slurs, racial epithets, and other forms of hate speech (David Gilbert/VICE) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5