Global Payments plans to acquire fintech peer EVO Payments for nearly $4B, a 24% premium on EVO's last closing price, and expects the deal to close by Q1 2023 (Niket Nishant/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Activision Blizzard Q2: revenue of $1.64B, down from $2.3B YoY, vs $1.57B est., net income of $280M, down from $876M YoY, and MAUs of 361M, down from 408M YoY (Wallace Witkowski/MarketWatch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Pinterest reports Q2 revenue of $666M, up 9% YoY, vs $667M est., global MAUs of 433M, down 5% YoY, vs 431M est., and a net loss of $43M; stock jumps 19%+ (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Amazon says its carbon footprint rose 18% YoY and 40% from 2019 to ~71.54M metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2021, despite plans to be "net zero carbon" by 2040 (Matt Day/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:42 Rating: 5

Researchers say Meta is failing to moderate dangerous content in Kenya on Facebook, citing failures in AI, as well as linguistic and cultural expertise gaps (Neha Wadekar/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

As the US passes its CHIPS+ Act, China plans to invest ~$150B+ through 2030 on chips, South Korea eyes $260B in chip investments by 2027, and the EU plans $40B (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

An analysis of music NFT secondary sales and trading activity from late 2021 to mid-2022, to provide a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of NFT markets (Water & Music) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

An interview with Kate Edwards, a geographer and consultant who helps video game companies better reflect international cultures and geopolitics in their games (Shannon Liao/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act (Emma Roth/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as "actively pregnant" or "shopping for maternity products" (Gizmodo) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5