March 11, 20230CommentsMeta says it plans to block Canadians’ ability to view or share news content on Facebook and Instagram if the country’s proposed Online News Act becomes law (Marie Woolf/Globe and Mail)
March 11, 20230CommentsAn interview with Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams as he re-launches his location-based social networking app at SXSW, 14 years after its debut (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)
March 11, 20230CommentsSources: some hedge funds are offering to buy startups’ deposits at SVB for 60 to 80 cents on the dollar; Filing: ~96% of deposits as of Dec. 31 were uninsured (Semafor)
March 11, 20230CommentsSBV collapse led to finger-pointing, as some crypto advocates preach and scold while some investors argue crypto collapses set the stage for SVB’s collapse (New York Times)
March 11, 20230CommentsTwitter is in decline and less stable under Elon Musk, echoing LiveJournal and Tumblr falling apart under new ownership that didn’t understand their communities (Gita Jackson/The Verge)
March 11, 20230CommentsLoopbreak.gg shines a light on Black stories in gaming | Donovan Erskine interview
March 11, 20230CommentsFounders fear that the collapse of SVB, which had branches in the UK, Canada, China, Germany, India, Israel, and more, could wipe out startups around the world (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)
March 11, 20230CommentsBrazil is seizing shipments of Flipper Zero, a $200 portable security penetration testing tool for IoT devices, due to its alleged use in criminal activity (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)