Tech Meme

Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: Q&A with Threads engineers Jesse Chen and Zahan Malkani on building the app with Instagram’s tech stack, handling Threads’ unexpectedly intense launch, and more  —  The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week.  How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Timmy Shen / The Block: Ant Group launches ZAN, a new blockchain service aimed at institutional and individual clients in overseas markets, including Hong Kong and Singapore  —  – Ant Group said ZAN will focus on serving institutional and individual clients in overseas markets including Hong Kong and Singapore. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Turkey-based grocery delivery startup Getir raises $500M from Mubadala, Michael Moritz, and others at a $2.5B valuation, down from $11.8B in early 2022  —  Istanbul-based grocery app company, which had been valued at nearly $12bn in early 2022, raises $500mn Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Tong / Reuters: Similarweb: ChatGPT’s desktop and mobile website visits fell 3.2% MoM to 1.43B in August, following 10% drops from each of the previous two months  —  OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot launched in November, saw monthly website visits decline for the third month … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: A look at Microsoft’s device-agnostic game streaming model; sources say Microsoft prototyped a cloud-focused Xbox handheld, but work on cloud gaming has slowed  —  With Steam Deck competitors on the rise, Microsoft has been focused on phones for Xbox Cloud Gaming so far. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: SAP acquires Germany-based startup LeanIX, which offers tools to help companies map their IT architecture, sources say for around $1.2B  —  As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company’s ability to modernize, the first step is simply understanding the state of your architecture. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Echo Wang / Reuters: Brand Engagement Network, which offers AI-powered chatbots and conversational AI tech to companies, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $358M valuation  —  Artificial intelligence startup Brand Engagement Network (BEN) on Thursday agreed to go public through a merger … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The US Commerce Department begins an official probe to “obtain more information” on a “purported” 7nm chip made by SMIC in China used in Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro  —  – Commerce working to get more information on purported 7nm chip  — It’s touched off a debate about the efficacy of US sanctions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Lyngaas / CNN: An excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography says Musk cut off Starlink internet service access to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet  —  Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: TikTok’s Shop marketplace goes live for some US users, presenting a feed of “recommended” random products, including several counterfeit Chinese goods  —  The social app’s Shop marketplace, key to its growth strategy, is so far hard to navigate. Lees verder op Tech Meme