Google partners with Coinbase to let some customers pay for cloud services in crypto, starting in 2023; Coinbase will move some data from AWS to Google Cloud (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
US DOJ forms the Digital Asset Coordinators Network with 150+ federal prosecutors across the country to target illegal activities involving digital currencies  —  New effort is part of trend toward putting more resources to target illegal activities involving digital currencies

Adam Satariano / New York Times:
A look at Portugal’s Meia Praia beach, a haven where crypto supporters gather, creating a bubble of optimism about digital currencies amid crypto’s downturn  —  In crypto havens such as Meia Praia beach, the confidence in digital currencies remains undimmed even after this summer’s crash.

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.53B, Digital Media revenue up 10% YoY to $3.3B, and Digital Experience revenue up 14% YoY to $1.15B; stock is up 5%+  —  – Adobe maintained its forecast for the new fiscal year.  — The company’s earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter was strong …

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle a cloud-computing contract of up to $9B each through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability  —  – Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.1B, Enterprise customers up 14% YoY to ~209.3K, and a FY 2023 revenue guidance below estimates; stock drops 7%+  —  – Zoom made a slight downward revision to its revenue guidance, and investors responded by pushing the stock lower.

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
DocuSign hires Google executive Allan Thygesen as CEO, starting October 10; the company’s CEO for the past five years, Dan Springer, stepped down in June  —  DocuSign shares rose almost 5% in extended trading after the electronic signature software maker announced it has hired an Alphabet executive, Allan Thygesen, to be its next CEO.