Tech Meme

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Qualcomm says it is weighing an acquisition of Alphawave, which has a ~$1.3B market cap and makes high-speed chip and connectivity tech for data centers and AI  —  The San Diego-based chip firm will have to make a decision about whether to make an offer by April 29 to comply with the UK’s takeover rules … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Arm has decided not to pursue a deal after recently seeking to acquire Alphawave, a UK-listed supplier of semiconductor IP that is exploring a sale  —  SoftBank-owned chip tech provider Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F) recently sought to acquire UK-based Alphawave (AWE.L) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Sherman / CNBC: UFC signs a wide-ranging, multimillion-dollar, multiple-year sponsorship deal with Meta, which will be its “official fan technology partner”  —  TKO Group’s UFC has struck a multimillion-dollar, multiple-year partnership deal with Meta that will bring the mixed martial arts league closer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox rolls out new parental controls, including letting parents block and report specific people on their child’s friends list, building on changes from 2024  —  They’ll be able to block specific experiences, too. … Roblox is introducing new parental controls that give parents more tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Documents: the NLRB froze Janneke Parrish and Cher Scarlett’s cases against Apple pending a review after Trump nominated an Apple attorney as general counsel  —  National Labor Relations Board freezes pair of disputes after Crystal Carey nominated as agency’s general counsel Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: X users are asking Grok to fact check other users by tagging @grok, often on political or historical topics, as a new passive aggressive way to dunk on others  —  – People are replying to posts on X — asking Grok: “Is this true?”  — It’s a new form of dunking on someone on X, and it’s making the old Twitter an even weirder place. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: In a March 28 brief, X asked SCOTUS to shield user data from US law enforcement without “probable cause”, in Coinbase user James Harper’s long-running case  —  Billionaire backs case brought by Coinbase client whose data was surrendered to authorities Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: In its first post-IPO earnings, Raspberry Pi reports FY 2024 revenue down 2% YoY to $259.5M, pre-tax profit down 57% YoY to $16.3M, and 1.9M Pi 5 units sold  —  Low-cost computer maker says pandemic-related inventory problems have since been ‘normalised’  —  Raspberry Pi’s pre-tax profits fell … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk’s X and xAI all-stock merger broke Wall Street’s usual rules, with the same advisers, Morgan Stanley and Sullivan & Cromwell, working on both sides  —  The tech titan can follow his own rules when he is combining two companies he owns, but the merger is still raising dealmaker eyebrows Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wikimedia: The Wikimedia Foundation says base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January 2024, driven by AI crawlers  —  Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images … Lees verder op Tech Meme