Tech Meme

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: LinkedIn is benefiting from recent social media upheavals with a jump in sharing, leveraging its position as a place where old-school self-promotion still works  —  The professional network is benefiting from upheavals elsewhere in the social media landscape.  —  The biggest social media platforms all have their niches. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Jiang / Toronto Star: Experts warn that Meta, and possibly Google, blocking trusted news outlets in Canada will worsen misinformation as the world nears a “precipice” of AI content  —  As it becomes increasingly difficult to trust what we read online, experts say it’s critical to learn how to tell real media from fake — here’s how. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Snap names former Google Pay exec Pulkit Trivedi as the new India head and grants the country’s leadership greater autonomy in a market where it has 200M+ MAUs  —  Snap has restructured its reporting system in India and named Pulkit Trivedi as the new country head, underscoring … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Arm’s IPO prospectus says the company has a 10% share of the $18B market for cloud processors, up from 7% in 2020, and a 41% share of the automotive market  —  Chip designer looks to AI, cloud computing and automotive markets for growth as it seeks $60bn valuation in IPO Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Binance.US teams up with MoonPay to let users use their debit or credit cards, Apple Pay or Google Pay to buy Tether, which can then be used to buy other tokens  —  – Payment partnership allows users to convert dollars to Tether  — Exchange has been unable to process users’ dollars directly Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: An analysis of Google’s policy dilemma as YouTube and UMG explore AI licensing, Google scrapes the web to train its AI, and lawsuits could upend copyright law  —  Google has made clear it is going to use the open web to inform and create anything it wants, and nothing can get in its way. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Grip Security, which helps companies reduce their SaaS identity risk, raised a $41M Series B led by Third Point, taking its total funding to $66M  —  Grip Security, which provides businesses with the tools to protect their SaaS applications and describes itself as the … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: A US judge orders ex-OpenSea product head Nate Chastain to three months in prison for making ~$50K through insider trades, in the first NFT insider trading case  —  Chastain was found guilty on charges of buying and selling NFTs from collections he knew would later be featured on his former company’s home page. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: Mendaera, which is developing a collaborative robotic system for healthcare providers that uses real-time imaging and AI, raised a $24M Series A led by Lux  —  The company announced its expansion into a Silicon Valley-based production facility to develop its collaborative robotic system. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: SIA: Huawei is building secret chip fabrication facilities across China that would let the company skirt US sanctions and is receiving ~$30B in state funding  —  – Tech giant is reportedly getting $30 billion in state support  — Biden administration monitoring and ready to take action Lees verder op Tech Meme