First pretrial hearing in the FTC's case against Microsoft's $69B bid to take over Activision Blizzard set for January 3, 2023 (Alexandra Alper/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Employment in tech occupations grew 12% YoY to a record 6.39M in November 2022, as workers eye banking, retail, health care, and manufacturing amid tech layoffs (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

A look at ABBA Voyage, the hit London concert performed by 3D digital avatars of the band created from motion capture, as its producers plan a global expansion (Jenni Reid/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Leaked screener copies of big movies tend to surface at year's end, but didn't in 2022, probably due to more security, streaming, and shorter release windows (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Sources: founder Richard Liu berated JD.com executives for poor performance and remains the undisputed decision maker despite having quit many frontline roles (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:42 Rating: 5

A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled (Ryan Broderick/Polygon) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

FTX says it would seek the return of its digital assets held by the Bahamas, claiming the value was ~$296M when transferred on November 12 and is now ~$167M (Nathan Crooks/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:42 Rating: 5

Italy's parliament approves a 26% tax on gains of €2,000+ from crypto trading per tax period and offers incentives for declaring crypto profits for tax purposes (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Source: Sam Bankman-Fried will likely plead not guilty to fraud and other charges at a January 3 hearing; SBF returns to Twitter to deny he moved Alameda funds (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Crypto created a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work in the long run, crypto must prove its real usefulness outside of finance (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5