Intro

Elon gets some friends to join his Twitter deal. And does he expect to be Twitter CEO soon? A Google acquisition shows their metaverse aspirations. Sonos to launch a voice assistant. A hiring slowdown at Meta. How can there be need for layoffs at Cameo? And is anyone other than me and the US Government concerned about quantum computing breaking encryption?

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Links:

• Ellison, Binance and Sequoia back Musk’s $44bn bid for Twitter (FT)
• Google bought a MicroLED display company that could help make AR headsets better and cheaper (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Sonos is about to introduce its own voice assistant (The Verge)
• Facebook plans to reduce hiring as revenue growth slows and inflation concerns increase (CNBC)
• Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives (Protocol)
• Stripe flexes its fintech muscle with Financial Connections to pull banking data automatically (TechCrunch)
• White House wants nation to prepare for cryptography-breaking quantum computers (The Record)

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