December 31, 20220CommentsErnst & Young: US tech IPO deal proceeds plummeted 94%, from $155.8B in 2021 to $8.6B in 2022; FactSet: no tech IPO raised $1B in 2022, compared to 15 in 2021 (Ari Levy/CNBC)
December 31, 20220CommentsPredictions for 2023: competition for Meta’s metaverse, Apple’s AR/VR headset debut, generative AI integration into products, continuing crypto gloom, and more (Wall Street Journal)
December 31, 20220CommentsMeta’s dramatic implosion, Elon Musk’s Twitter train wreck, and Amazon’s labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech (Brian Merchant/The Atlantic)
December 31, 20220CommentsSources: 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)
December 31, 20220CommentsA 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)
December 31, 20220CommentsFTX says it would seek the return of its digital assets held by the Bahamas, claiming the value to be $296M when transferred on November 12 and now worth $167M (Nathan Crooks/The Block)
December 30, 20220CommentsItaly’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)
December 30, 20220CommentsGoogle changes its appeals process for accounts flagged as containing CSAM; the content deemed exploitative will still be removed from Google and reported (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
December 30, 20220CommentsTop 5 data stories of 2022: Teradata vs Snowflake, SQLite, privacy in Metaverse
December 30, 20220CommentsSource: 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)
