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VC firm Sequoia Capital’s Doug Leone on the fallout from FTX collapse

Doug Leone, managing partner at Sequoia Capital LLC, speaks during the Bridge Forum conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. The event brings together leaders in finance and technology from Asia and Silicon Valley to connect and share insights. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty …

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Microsoft wants more competition among game publishers

Microsoft wants to create more competition among game publishers, CEO Satya Nadella says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the American tech giant wants to create more competition among game publishers, as it faces an anticompetition probe over its $69 billion offer to buy Activision Blizzard. Activision Blizzard, the American game …

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Crypto firm Multicoin says contagion fallout from FTX will continue

FTX logo displayed on a phone screen and representation of Bitcoin cryptocurrency are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 14, 2022. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Crypto venture firm Multicoin Capital told investors in a letter on Thursday that FTX’s collapse and the …

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Binance executive compares Sam Bankman-Fried to Holmes and Madoff

Binance’s chief strategy officer said it took his company two hours of due diligence on FTX to determine that Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange was beyond saving. “It was like a bomb went off in that place,” Patrick Hillmann, Binance CSO, told CNBC on Thursday. “You know, we’re getting on calls, …

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Activision Blizzard to end gaming deal with China’s NetEase

The booth of Blizzard Entertainment at the Chinajoy Expo in Shanghai, China, on Aug. 2, 2019. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Activision Blizzard and Chinese gaming firm NetEase are ending their 14-year licensing agreement, a move that will result in hit game franchises like World of Warcraft and …

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Binance CEO slams Sam Bankman-Fried’s erratic behavior

The chief executive of the largest online exchange for cryptocurrency, Binance, criticized the former CEO of bankrupt exchange FTX and took aim at economist Nouriel Roubini. Appearing at the the Milken Institute’s Middle East and Africa Summit on Thursday, Changpeng Zhao, known as “CZ”, was asked to respond to a …

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Elon Musk sends ultimatum to Twitter employees, read the FAQs

In this photo illustration, the image of Elon Musk is displayed on a computer screen and the logo of twitter on a mobile phone in Ankara, Turkiye on October 06, 2022. Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Elon Musk asked Twitter employees to commit to a “hardcore” …

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Never seen such a failure of controls

Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder and CEO of FTX, in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Lam Yik | Bloomberg | Getty Images Newly appointed FTX CEO John Ray III minced no words in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, declaring that “in his …

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Grab pares losses by 24%, deliveries unit breaks even ahead of target

Singapore technology ride-sharing and food delivery service company Grab logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. Budrul Chukrut | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Singapore-based ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab narrowed losses and broke even in its deliveries segment for the first time since 2012, during the …

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Sam Bankman-Fried admits FTX got ‘overconfident and careless’

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and Founder of FTX, walks near the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., September 15, 2022. Graeme Sloan | Sipa via AP Images Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said on Wednesday that the cryptocurrency exchange got “overconfident” and “careless” as it grew into a $32 billion juggernaut. “I …

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