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Star’s launch means lots of new content for Disney Plus — but not in the US 

The Verge

It’s a new section of Disney Plus for international audiences that will offer more mature R-rated films, TV shows from FX, and other shows and movies that Disney owns the rights to but don’t fit into Disney Plus’ family-friendly image. Star is effectively Disney’s solution to the fact that Hulu doesn’t exist in international markets.

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Nordic neobank Lunar raises $77M at $2B valuation, launches crypto trading platform and B2B payments

TechCrunch

Lunar has a full banking license (setting it apart from a number of other neobanks, which operate on other banks’ rails), and it offers checking and deposit accounts; loans and other credit services like buy now, pay later; stock, fund and ETF investing for consumers; plus business accounts, loans and financial management for SMBs.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. The company expanded beyond Sweden to neighboring Nordic countries Norway, Finland and Denmark, with a headcount that had reached 120 employees. How much of a true meritocracy are we?

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. The company expanded beyond Sweden to neighboring Nordic countries Norway, Finland and Denmark, with a headcount that had reached 120 employees. How much of a true meritocracy are we?

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Xbox Series X and S: everything you need to know about the next-gen of Xbox

The Verge

They’re also both backwards compatible with all officially licensed Xbox One accessories like controllers and headsets — although there are no plans to support the Kinect camera. And yet, the disc-based X also has double the amount of internal storage with 1TB as opposed to 512GB, and more RAM at 16GB compared to 10GB.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Our data licensing and API with X is an incredible business. It added that, unlike its competitors TikTok and Instagram, Twitter hasn’t struck a music licensing deal for the use of copyrighted music. The operational run rate right now… we’re pretty close to break even.” “Our Our new subscription business [is] growing,” Yaccarino said.

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HBO Max is coming to parts of Europe on October 26th

The Verge

Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, and Andorra are the first six countries it’ll be available in, before it expands to the following 14 territories next year: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

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