TikTok is offering steep discounts on goods to US users who invite friends to the app, expanding a referral scheme from countries like Japan and Thailand (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)

Kaya Yurieff / The Information:

TikTok is offering steep discounts on goods to US users who invite friends to the app, expanding a referral scheme from countries like Japan and Thailand — TikTok is testing a truism: Money talks. — TikTok users in the U.S. who invite their friends to the app can now get steep discounts on goods …

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Félix Lengyel, aka xQc, a Twitch streamer with 12M followers, signs a ~$100M deal with Kick, a streaming service backed by Australian gaming and gambling sites (Kellen Browning/New York Times)

Kellen Browning / New York Times: Félix Lengyel, aka xQc, a Twitch streamer with 12M followers, signs a ~$100M deal with Kick, a streaming service backed by Australian gaming and gambling sites — The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes' contracts, and is another sign … http://www.techmeme.com/230616/p28?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230616p28

Apple says it asked Epic to fix the buttons in a future version of the Epic Games Store submitted for review; Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Epic will "fight this" (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider)

Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: Apple says it asked Epic to fix the buttons in a future version of the Epic Games Store submitted for review; Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Epic will “fight this” — Mere hours after reports circulated that Apple had declined to approve the Epic Games Store for iOS in the EU … http://www.techmeme.com/240706/p7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240706p7

Sources: the hackers behind the February data breach of drug distributor Cencora received a record ransom of $75M through three bitcoin installments in March (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: the hackers behind the February data breach of drug distributor Cencora received a record ransom of $75M through three bitcoin installments in March — - Payment made through three Bitcoin installments in March — Dark Angels hacking gang pursues high prices and low profile http://www.techmeme.com/240918/p42?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240918p42

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