March 14, 20230CommentsSource: US prosecutors are looking at Telegram group chats between employees at Jump, Jane Street, and Alameda in May 2022 over the collapse of TerraUSD (Bloomberg)
March 14, 20230CommentsSignature’s and SVB’s collapse was aided by GOP-led Dodd-Frank reforms that raised the “stress test” threshold from $50B to $250B, pushed for by SVB executives (David Enrich/New York Times)
March 14, 20230CommentsMicrosoft plans to make 3D avatars available to all Teams users in May 2023, after announcing the feature in 2021 and testing them privately in recent months (Tom Warren/The Verge)
March 14, 20230CommentsA look at the shift to the ATSC 3.0 TV broadcast standard, still not available in many major markets since its 2017 launch, as free streaming TV channels surge (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
March 14, 20230CommentsAn in-depth look at tech’s terrible 2022 in numbers: VC investment and IPOs falling globally, an 85% drop in new unicorns, layoffs impacting 280,000+, and more (Rest of World)
March 14, 20230CommentsFiling and sources: TuSimple co-founder Xiaodi Hou left the company’s board last week after a “whistleblower” reported him asking staff to join his new venture (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
March 14, 20230CommentsSources and documents: India plans to force smartphone makers to let users remove pre-loaded apps and will mandate screening OS updates via new security rules (Reuters)
March 14, 20230CommentsSources: multiple women accuse London-based TikTok executive Steve Ware of sexual harassment and say TikTok mishandled the allegations, a pattern at the company (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
March 14, 20230CommentsA look at Eightfold AI, which uses AI to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers, and the challenges it faces, like a slowing economy and new rules (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
March 14, 20230CommentsEmail: SVB’s new CEO Tim Mayopoulos says SVB NA, a new FDIC-run “bridge-bank”, with deposits protected by the FDIC, is “open and conducting business as usual” (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch)