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Techmeme - 2024-04-26T04:35:35-04:00

Thoma Bravo agrees to buy UK-based cyber security company Darktrace for $7.75 per share, a 20% premium on its April 25 closing price, valuing the company at $5B (Will Louch/Financial Times) - 2024-04-26T04:35:02-04:00

ByteDance says it has no plans to sell TikTok, responding to a report suggesting that it is considering scenarios for selling a majority stake in US TikTok (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal) - 2024-04-26T02:13:23-04:00

TechInsights teardown: Huawei's Pura 70 uses a 7nm chip, similar to the Mate 60, and a Kirin 9010 processor, a newer version of the Mate 60 Pro's Kirin 9000s (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg) - 2024-04-25T23:20:02-04:00

Sources: the US is urging Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands to tighten export controls to China, including stopping engineers from servicing Chinese fabs (Financial Times) - 2024-04-25T21:55:01-04:00

New rules that allow UK law enforcement agencies to seize, destroy, or transfer crypto holdings used for crime before making an arrest take effect (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk) - 2024-04-25T21:25:05-04:00

Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his new company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the site (Katie Robertson/New York Times) - 2024-04-25T19:50:06-04:00

Consensys sues the US SEC over what it calls the "unlawful seizure of authority" over ethereum, after receiving a Wells notice for its MetaMask wallet product (CoinDesk) - 2024-04-25T19:30:05-04:00

The CHIPS Act has been surprisingly successful so far, giving the US greater scope to meet critical infrastructure needs in the event of a crisis in East Asia (Chris Miller/Financial Times) - 2024-04-25T18:00:53-04:00

In a subpoena, Elon Musk asked Helen Toner to hand over documents about her departure from OpenAI's board and how OpenAI decides when a technology achieves AGI (Bloomberg) - 2024-04-25T17:00:46-04:00

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety) - 2024-04-25T16:55:13-04:00

Atlassian's co-CEO Scott Farquhar plans to step down on August 31, 2024, after 23 years at the company; he will remain a board member and a special advisor (Scott Farquhar/Work Life) - 2024-04-25T16:50:01-04:00

Snap reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.19B, vs. $1.12B est., DAUs up 10% YoY to 422M, a net loss of $305M, compared to $329M YoY; SNAP jumps 24%+ after hours (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) - 2024-04-25T16:38:03-04:00

Alphabet announces its first-ever dividend and authorizes the repurchase of up to an additional $70B of its Class A and Class C shares (Akash Sriram/Reuters) - 2024-04-25T16:35:10-04:00

YouTube's Q1 ad revenue climbs 21% YoY to $8.1B, vs. $7.72B estimated, its highest Q1 total to date (Todd Spangler/Variety) - 2024-04-25T16:30:02-04:00

Microsoft reports Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 21% YoY to $26.71B, vs. $26.26B est., with Azure and other cloud services revenue up 31% YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC) - 2024-04-25T16:26:47-04:00