Microsoft's Gaming Strategy and Legal Turmoil in Tech Investments

Microsoft is creating an HDMI dongle to turn any tv or monitor into an Xbox gaming console. Now the lawsuits are popping off in the whole Elon/Twitter thing. If even high profile startups like Substack are having trouble raising rounds, what does that mean for run of the mill startups? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed 'Keystone' (Windows Central)
• Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk and Twitter over chaotic deal (CNBC)
• Twitter director Egon Durban won’t leave the board after shareholders voted to boot him (CNBC)
• Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours (NYTimes)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions

• The big new idea for making self-driving cars that can go anywhere (MIT Technology Review)
• In India’s Mobile-Payments Boom, Even Beggars Get QR Codes (WSJ)
• The Collison Brothers Built Stripe Into A $95 Billion Unicorn With Eye-Popping Financials. Inside Their Plan To Stay On Top (Forbes)
• THE UNSTOPPABLE MACHINES BEHIND THE GAME CONSOLE SHORTAGE (The Verge)
• Made to measure: why we can’t stop quantifying our lives (The Guardian)

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