Jenni Reid / CNBC: Sega acquires Rovio, best known for its Angry Birds franchise, for €706M — – The deal would be for the entirety of Rovio’s outstanding shares and options, valuing them at 9.25 euro per share, a roughly 19% premium to their closing price before the announcement, Sega said. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jenni Reid / CNBC: Sega acquires Rovio, best known for its Angry Birds franchise, for €706M — – The deal would be for the entirety of Rovio’s outstanding shares and options, valuing them at 9.25 euro per share, a roughly 19% premium to their closing price before the announcement, Sega said. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Max Tani / Semafor: Spotify plans to drop its paywall on some of Gimlet’s podcasts and change its exclusivity rules in the coming months; Spotify acquired Gimlet for $230M in 2019 — Staff at the podcast studio Gimlet staff have been told in recent weeks that Spotify plans to drop its subscription wall around some of the studio’s shows. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The SEC sues Bittrex and its ex-CEO for allegedly operating an unregistered securities exchange, claiming tokens like Algorand and Omise Go are securities — The SEC also alleged that tokens like Algorand and Omise Go are securities. — Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith Romero Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith Romero Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Razor Group, which buys and scales up e-commerce merchants, raised an €80M Series C, sources say at a $1.2B valuation and acquires its competitor Stryze Group — The business of being an e-commerce aggregator may be down but it is definitely not out. — Razor Group, one of the string … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ian Johnston / Financial Times: As Palantir vies for a £480M contract to build a “federated data platform” for the UK’s NHS, experts say the company’s Foundry tool is costly and hard to use — Internal opposition voiced over US company’s bid for lucrative expansion within British health service Lees verder op Tech Meme
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Apple launches its Apple Card Savings account, letting users deposit Daily Cash rewards into a 4.15% high-yield account, after announcing it in October 2022 — Months after its first announcement, Apple Savings is now available to Apple Card users, with users able to route Daily Cash rewards … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: Adobe announces upgrades to its Firefly generative AI tools, allowing video editors to add effects, boost color levels, and more using natural language prompts — Less than a month after debuting its new suite of Firefly generative AI editing tools, Adobe announced Monday that it is already working … Lees verder op Tech Meme
CTech: Sources: Tel Aviv-based QuaDream is shutting down, after Microsoft and Citizen Lab said its mercenary spyware is being used to hack journalists and others — It was reported last week that the Israeli firm’s hacking tools have been used against journalists, opposition figures and advocacy organizations across at least 10 countries Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sylvia Varnham O’Regan / The Information: Sources: after its first-ever ad sales drop, Meta ditched its brash tone with advertisers and is offering sweeteners, including a 25% discount for Reels ads — After suffering its first-ever drop in ad sales, Meta Platforms has abandoned its once-brash tone with advertisers in favor of a more flexible approach to winning business. Lees verder op Tech Meme