Clubhouse employs an unusually aggressive user onboarding process, pressuring users to upload contacts before ranking those contacts based on total connections Source

Ad-measurement company Tenjin: following Apple’s IDFA changes, spending on iOS ads fell one-third between June 1 and July 1, while Android spending rose 10% Source

Twitter’s board says “Mr. Musk agreed to a transaction at $54.20 per share” and that it intends to “close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement” Source

Apple executives previewed the upcoming mixed reality headset to the company’s board last week; Apple ramped up reality OS development in recent weeks Source

Blizzard president calls sexual harassment lawsuit “extremely troubling” in internal memo while a VP says it presents a “distorted and untrue” view of company Source

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal may struggle to balance his own vision against that of Elon Musk, an unpredictable board member with a much louder megaphone Source

Zuckerberg responds to the mockery of the Horizon Worlds selfie, saying it was taken quickly to celebrate a launch and promises major updates to avatar graphics Source

Kuo: Sony will begin mass producing its PSVR 2 headset in H2 2022 ahead of a possible launch in Q1 2023, depending on the state of flagship game titles Source

Broadcom is in talks to acquire VMware, which has a ~$40B market cap; the discussions are ongoing and there’s no guarantee they will lead to a purchase Source

Roskomnadzor says it is blocking Facebook in Russia, citing 26 cases of “discrimination against Russian media and information resources” since October 2020 Source