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Pathmatics: Apple's Twitter ad purchases grew from $989K in October to $1M+ in November; Elon Musk said Apple "mostly stopped advertising on Twitter" on Nov. 28 (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 67% YoY to $557M, vs. $539M est., and anticipates Q4 product revenue between $535M and $540M, vs. $553M est.; stock drops 12%+ (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

As FTX collapsed, mainstream news organizations often failed to give a straightforward assessment of exactly what happened and potential crimes involved (David Z. Morris/CoinDesk)

Google says Barcelona-based spyware vendor Variston planted spyware by exploiting zero-day flaws in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows between 2018 and 2022 (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Global smartwatch shipments increased 30% YoY in Q3 2022, led by India, up 171%; Apple grew 48% YoY, Samsung dropped 2.7% YoY, and Noise grew 218% YoY (Woojin Son/Counterpoint Research)

IBM and Maersk's blockchain-enabled supply chain offering TradeLens, launched in 2018, will shut down in Q1 2023; Maersk blames a lack of industry collaboration (Christiana Loureiro/The Block)

HPE Q4: revenue up 7% YoY to $7.87B, vs. $7.37B est., including Intelligent Edge up 18% YoY to $965M, HPC & AI down 14% YoY to $862M, and Compute up 16% YoY (Kathryn Hardison/Dow Jones Newswires)

Republicans Ron DeSantis, Ken Buck, Mike Lee, Marsha Blackburn, others mention legislative action to curb Apple's app market power after Musk tweets about Apple (Sara Dorn/Forbes)

AWS unveils Amazon Security Lake, a service that automatically centralizes an organization's security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a data lake (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

US crypto exchange Kraken agrees to pay $360K+ to the Treasury Department to settle accusations of sanctions violations involving transactions by users in Iran (New York Times)

Elon Musk says Apple threatened to "withhold" Twitter from App Store "but won't tell us why" and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Source: Musk sought to call some brands' CEOs to berate them for advertising less on Twitter; others lowered spend to the minimum needed to avoid confrontation (Financial Times)

EU lawmakers claim the Markets in Crypto Assets rules, expected to be approved in 2023, would prevent an FTX-like crash, but some say the proposal needs updates (Gian Volpicelli/Politico)

New Zealand says Twitter failed to detect or remove clips from the 2019 Christchurch terror attack until the government alerted the company (Eva Corlett/The Guardian)

Source: turmoil at Foxconn's Zhengzhou hub is likely to lower iPhone 14 Pro production by close to 6M units in 2022, potentially worsening if lockdowns continue (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

A look at OpenAI's Minecraft bot, which has learned to complete complex tasks in Minecraft after being trained on 70K hours of video of people playing the game (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Cyber Monday gaming deals LIVE: Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series X Discounts

PS5 DualSense controller vs Xbox Series X controller: which gamepad is better?

Shanghai-based eRoad, which offers a cloud-based HR management service with a focus on payroll, raised a ~$140M Series D, after raising an ~$84M Series C (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)

Elon Musk claims "all-time high" new Twitter signups, averaging 2M+ a day in the last seven days till November 16, up 66% YoY, and ~8B daily user active minutes (Reuters)