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Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.
Voting for The Golden Kitty Awards ends tonight at midnight PST, so this is your last chance to have a say in determining the best tech of 2022.
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Twitter is trialing a new monetization model… selling people statues of its old logo for $100,000. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Amazon prepare to collectively cut 38,000 jobs. That leaves Apple the only member of the OG FAANG family as yet untouched by layoffs.
Gas, the app that lets teens compliment each other, has been acquired by Discord.
Congrats to co-founder Nikita Bier. It's his second big acquisition in five years, having sold his first app to Facebook in 2017.
Golden Kitty voting time, to be precise.
Only four days left to vote for your top products from 2022: crown the best in AI, Data and Analytics, Design Tools, Developer Tools, E-Commerce, SaaS, and more.
Time flies when you’re launching products.
It’s voting week for the Golden Kitty Awards, and we can’t wait to see who will take the trophies home this year.
Today’s the last day you can nominate your favorite products of 2022 to win a Golden Kitty Award. This year’s trophy is looking really sharp, if we do say so ourselves.
In today’s digest: Slack tools to help improve your workflow and Prince Harry’s memoir. Separately, of course.
Layoffs continue to hit tech hard: Crypto’s PR disaster intensifies with Coinbase’s second round of layoffs taking out 20% of its team.
Meanwhile, Virgin’s rockets are falling from the sky (along with its share price).
May we forever live in such interesting times.
Yesterday, we opened nominations for the Golden Kitty awards, so go nominate your favorite products today!
Also in today’s Digest: The rise and rise of AI for photos, videos, and ads.


















