Block’s earnings miss on drop in bitcoin revenue – Protocol

Square subscription revenue was $231 million in the first quarter of 2022, excluding PPP loan forgiveness revenue, up from $112 million a year ago.

Before that, he worked as a staff writer at Forbes, covering social media and venture capital, and also edited the Midas List of top tech investors.

There’s been a lot of ink spilled about climate projects like Harvard’s research into dimming the sun and big-name tech donors like Bill Gates.

Mere days after laying off 87 employees, Cameo’s remaining executives are heading to Miami to party: The company is going forward with its plans to host an F1 NFT party in Miami Beach, Protocol has learned.

Tesla offers to cover the travel costs of employees seeking medical care outside of their home state, including abortions.

Soon, you’ll need to remember one less password.

The investment is the first funding led by Katie Haun’s new venture capital firm after a much-anticipated launch in March, and brings Zora’s valuation to $600 million.

A total of 19 investors helped secure $7.14 billion in new funding for Musk’s $44 billion buy, according to an SEC filing Thursday.

Cameo, the celebrity video greetings startup, laid off 87 of staffers Wednesday, a move that CEO Steven Galanis described as “right-sizing.” The layoffs also affected some of Cameo’s most senior executives, Protocol has learned.

That may be news to the many neobanks and other fintechs that feast on interchange fees: the money merchants pay for every tap, dip or swipe of a credit or debit card.

The European Commission proposed banning Russian oil and petroleum imports in a move that aims to punish the Kremlin for the invasion of Ukraine.

The feature also allows creators with at least 100,000 followers to participate in a revenue-share program, the first ad product of its kind to do so, though it’s unclear how many creators it will approve for the program in its initial stages, TechCrunch reported.

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