Adobe buys Figma, Uber gets hacked, and Google shrinks Area 120 • TechCrunch

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• Cutbacks at Location 120: Region 120 is Google’s in-house incubator, intended to allow Googlers with potentially major ideas tap the mega company’s assets to transform explained concepts into a thing serious. This week, having said that, Google verified that it is slashing fifty percent of the Spot 120 assignments now in advancement, with the incubator “shifting its focus” to AI initiatives. Impacted workers are being offered right up until early 2023 to discover a new position within Google.
• Adobe buys Figma: In one particular of the major tech acquisitions of all time, Adobe introduced this 7 days its intent to get the collaborative/world-wide-web-primarily based style and design resource Figma for a whopping $20 billion. Figma noticed preposterous expansion all through the pandemic, as lots of, several tech teams went remote and altered their workflows appropriately. Even for a enterprise as huge as Adobe, winning that element of the workflow again would’ve been tough.
• Layoffs at Twilio: Twilio confirmed this week that it’ll lay off roughly 11% of its workforce — someplace in between 800 and 900 people today — as the corporation focuses on achieving profitability in 2023.
• iOS 16 goes live: As predicted, iOS 16 rolled out to Apple gadgets this week. Want our ideas on it? Come across Romain’s overview below. Want to know all of the not-so-evident new characteristics hiding inside the update? Look at out Ivan’s checklist. Most of our visitors seem to be hunting for exciting approaches to use those people new Lock Monitor widgets.
• South Korea troubles an arrest warrant for Terraform Labs’ founder: “A court in South Korea has issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs,” writes Manish, “escalating its probe into the crypto ecosystem whose two tokens shed $40 billion in benefit in a span of days earlier this calendar year.”
• Uber hack: Late Thursday night time, Uber verified that it’s “responding to a cybersecurity incident” after a hacker seemingly breached the company’s interior community, with the hacker reportedly saying their presence (and protesting how Uber pays its drivers) suitable inside Uber’s Slack.

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