Sources: activist investor TCS Capital, which owns 4%+ of Yelp’s common stock, urges the recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives, including a sale (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:Sources: activist investor TCS Capital, which owns 4%+ of Yelp’s common stock, urges the recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives, including a sale  —  TCS Capital Management has built a stake in Yelp and is calling on the service-recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives.

A rise in memecoins and NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain, thanks to the Ordinals protocol, has spurred record transactions and an ensuing fee windfall for miners (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:A rise in memecoins and NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain, thanks to the Ordinals protocol, has spurred record transactions and an ensuing fee windfall for miners  —  An eruption of memecoins and nonfungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain has reshaped the revenue profile of miners …

A look at the issues fomented by a decentralized web, including a rise in conspiratorial thinking due to more siloed online spaces and increasing app fatigue (Jessica Maddox/Wired)

Jessica Maddox / Wired:A look at the issues fomented by a decentralized web, including a rise in conspiratorial thinking due to more siloed online spaces and increasing app fatigue  —  From social networks to crypto, independently run servers are being touted as a solution to the internet’s problems.

After Niantic’s latest AR game Peridot got negative app store reviews and few downloads, a look at the company’s metaverse games struggling to find an audience (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg:After Niantic’s latest AR game Peridot got negative app store reviews and few downloads, a look at the company’s metaverse games struggling to find an audience  —  Just a few years ago, tech evangelists were hailing Niantic Inc., the maker of the hit game Pokémon Go …