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Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B+ (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter : Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzl...

19 February 2026

Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B+ (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B+  —  “It's been a privilege to have a front row seat to the team's rapid growth and success and see them become the latest Turkish startup …

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ByteDance is currently hiring for nearly 100 US-based roles within its Seed AI team across San Jose, LA, and Seattle to develop LLMs, drug discovery, and more (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)

Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
ByteDance is currently hiring for nearly 100 US-based roles within its Seed AI team across San Jose, LA, and Seattle to develop LLMs, drug discovery, and more  —  Chinese tech giant ByteDance Ltd. is hiring in the US for nearly 100 open roles within its artificial intelligence division …

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Klarna reports Q4 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.08B and a $26M net loss, down from a $40M profit in Q4 2024; KLAR is down 50%+ since its September 2025 NYSE IPO (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)

Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times:
Klarna reports Q4 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.08B and a $26M net loss, down from a $40M profit in Q4 2024; KLAR is down 50%+ since its September 2025 NYSE IPO  —  Swedish fintech's shares have sunk since September's IPO  —  Klarna swung to a $26mn net loss in the last three months of 2025 …

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Sources and docs: the US "effectively gutted" the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

Aisha Down / The Guardian:
Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls  —  Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat

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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is on an apology tour to quell an outcry over privacy concerns after a Super Bowl "Search Party" ad, calling it a "perfect storm" (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

Jordyn Holman / New York Times:
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is on an apology tour to quell an outcry over privacy concerns after a Super Bowl “Search Party” ad, calling it a “perfect storm”  —  Since the commercial aired, Jamie Siminoff has been trying to quell an outcry over privacy concerns with his doorbell cameras.

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Amazon overtakes Walmart as the world's largest company by revenue, reporting $717B in 2025 sales compared to Walmart's $713.2B for the 12 months to January 31 (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon overtakes Walmart as the world's largest company by revenue, reporting $717B in 2025 sales compared to Walmart's $713.2B for the 12 months to January 31  —  Amazon.com Inc. has officially dethroned Walmart Inc. as the biggest global company by revenue, a milestone attesting …

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Atlassian's founders lost ~$7.2B in wealth in 2026, behind AppLovin's three founders, amid an SaaS rout; TEAM dropped ~48% YTD, the Nasdaq 100's worst performer (Bloomberg)

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Atlassian's founders lost ~$7.2B in wealth in 2026, behind AppLovin's three founders, amid an SaaS rout; TEAM dropped ~48% YTD, the Nasdaq 100's worst performer  —  Michael Cannon-Brookes became a billionaire in his 30s and one of Australia's richest tech executives with the initial public offering …

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Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025 (Emily Steel/New York Times)

Emily Steel / New York Times:
Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025  —  The New York Times revealed in December that the ride-hailing giant approved drivers with many types of criminal convictions, including violent felonies.

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Book extract: ex-Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton recounts his role in sparking North Korea's 2014 hack, one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history (Michael Lynton/Wall Street Journal)

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Book extract: ex-Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton recounts his role in sparking North Korea's 2014 hack, one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history  —  In an exclusive book excerpt, the former CEO of Sony Entertainment opens up about his role in unleashing one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history.

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India's AI Summit: Modi orchestrated a photo op with tech and business leaders holding hands in a line, but Sam Altman and Dario Amodei awkwardly refused (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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India's AI Summit: Modi orchestrated a photo op with tech and business leaders holding hands in a line, but Sam Altman and Dario Amodei awkwardly refused  —  Once a rival, always a rival.  —  As Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the busiest day of India's AI Summit in New Delhi …

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