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This news item is part of the weekly top 5 news bulletin (from Week 1, Mar 2023) specially packaged for leaders of Nonprofits, Churches, and Faith-based Social Ventures.
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In our Web3 news, we have a couple of interesting news items. One from the Tezos Foundation that promotes Tezos blockchain protocol announcing that they have tied up with Google Cloud to develop web3 infrastructure. The announcement says the collaboration includes Google Cloud becoming Tezos Network validator (or Baker) and Tezos helping Google Cloud’s corporate customers deploy Tezos nodes to support web3 innovation on the Tezos blockchain. The second news is about Canada publishing a notice about their crypto regulations. So they’ve talked about how certain types of stable coins are not valid or not allowed by the regulators and certain types are.We will link to all those details in the show notes. Check it out.
Here is the full list of the Top 5 News Items from Week 1, March 2023 with source links from Microsoft, YouTube, TikTok, Meta, Google.
🗞️ News 1: YouTube tests Podcast management features; adds new Moderator role
Source: Google Support | YouTube
🗞️ News 2: Microsoft brings AI Chat into Skype & Edge in addition to Bing Mobile
Source: Microsoft
🗞️ News 3: TikTok partners with Mercedes Benz to bring videos into car screens
Source: TikTok
🗞️ News 4: Meta upgrades VR experience with finger-swiping instead of a controller
Source: Meta
🗞️ News 5: [Web3] Google Partners with Tezos; Canada publishes Regulation details
Source: Business Wire | Decrypt
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