Patreon slashes a fifth of its workforce and closes two offices

Sept 27 (Reuters) — Space and Time, a decentralized data analytics platform, secured $20 million in funding from a group of investors led by Microsoft venture capital arm M12, valuing the company at $300 million.

The platform’s current top Patreon creator is the True Crime Obsessed podcast, according to Graphtreon. The podcast with hosts Patrick Hinds and Gillian Pensavalle has more than 47,000 patrons donating to their show.

There’s still a long way to go, but it aims to end the disposal of toxic batteries at landfill sites and recover valuable elements that are in limited supply: copper, cobalt, nickel, manganese and the so-called metal of the decade, lithium.

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Conte concluded: ‘To our teammates who will remain at Patreon: the second Renaissance has already begun, and we have a massive opportunity ahead of us to change the course of history for creative people, to give them leverage and control, to give them direct relationships with their communities, and to help them build beyond their dreams.’ 

The scheme is focused on making it ultra-convenient for Australian consumers to recycle batteries and drastically reduce the estimated 90 per cent of batteries that wound up in landfill before the scheme began.

«There is massive amounts of data and use cases coming from blockchain technology’s multi-chain world, and insights and data from centralized data stores … and Space and Time sits at the bridge that links them,» Holiday said.

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Peloton, an exercise equipment and media company, told employees in August the company is slashing 784 jobs, increasing equipment prices, closing several retail locations and requiring all non-remote employees to return to the office by November 14. 

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The company, which aims to run analytics on data stored on blockchain as well as outside of it for smart contracts, plans to use the funding to hire more engineers, said Nate Holiday, co-founder, Space and Time.

«While Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected,» Phil Harrison, vice president and general manager of Stadia, said in a blog post.

‘So for better or worse, I and the rest of the Patreon Security Team are no longer with the company,’ . ‘As a result, I’m looking for a new Security or Privacy Engineering role and would appreciate any connections, advice, or poker pkv job opportunities from folks in my network.’ 

Most notably, his company-wide freezing of new hires and the canceling of a massive company holiday party due to the company’s tanking stock prices while he attended a lavish, invite-only party for some of his instructors at New York City’s Plaza Hotel.

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CEO Barry McCarthy, a tech veteran who took over the company in February after a tumultuous end to former CEO John Foley’s time at the company, said he hopes the decisions will ‘better position the company for long term success.’

Sept 29 (Reuters) — Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Thursday it would wind down its consumer gaming service, Stadia, as it failed to attract enough interest from gamers after nearly three years of being launched.

Amazon has promised a 48-hour deal bonanza offering Prime-exclusive savings and «hundreds of thousands» of deals to shop. Though it is arriving under a different name, the Prime Early Access Sale is, for all intents and purposes, a second Prime Day for 2022. It will mark the first time Amazon has held two such sales in one calendar year, though it arrives against a backdrop of struggling economies globally and squeezed personal finances for many.

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«This growth is also leading to concerns about the impact of new energy systems on the long-term availability of resources and the economic and environmental impacts of the extraction and use of critical metals and other elements.