Sources: despite a November 2019 pledge to slow down, Masayoshi Son pushed SoftBank staff into investing $38B out of Vision Fund 2 across 180+ companies in 2021 (Eliot Brown/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

LA-based MarqVision, which uses AI to monitor marketplaces for counterfeits, including of NFTs, raised a $20M Series A led by DST Global and Atinum Investment (TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:10 Rating: 5

Hackers drain nearly all of the ~$190M in crypto from the Nomad token bridge, which is backed by Coinbase and OpenSea, over a long series of transactions (Brian Newar/Cointelegraph) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

IDC reports global Chromebook shipments fell 51.4% YoY to 6M units in Q2 2022, still above pre-pandemic levels, and tablet shipments rose 0.15% YoY to 40.5M (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNet) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Legal docs: Twitter is subpoenaing information about Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, Steve Jurvetson, Marc Andreessen, and others in its lawsuit against Musk (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

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