Tech Meme

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Collaboration software maker Smartsheet agrees to be acquired by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for $8.4B in cash, or $56.50/share, closing in early 2025  —  Collaboration software maker Smartsheet announced Tuesday Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners will acquire it in an all-cash deal valuing the company at about $8.4 billion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: Snap says it will use Google’s Gemini to help add new features to its chatbot, including translating menus, after starting to use Gemini earlier in 2024  —  – Snapchat first launched its AI-powered chatbot last year  — Snap uses artificial intelligence models from OpenAI, Google Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google Photos rolls out an update to its mobile video editor for Android and iOS, adding editing tools and AI presets to make trimming and tweaking clips easier  —  Features coming to Android devices include a new “Speed” tool for creating slo-mo or sped-up videos, a new “Auto enhance” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Warner Bros. Discovery partners with Google to add its “caption AI”, built on Vertex AI, to Max to automatically generate captions for unscripted programming  —  Warner Bros. Discovery is partnering with Google to integrate the internet giant’s AI technology into its Max video streaming platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: GitHub says all enterprise cloud customers will be able to select an EU region to store all their code starting on October 29  —  GitHub will soon allow cloud customers to store their code data in the European Union (EU), part of a growing push in the technology realm to meet regulatory requirements … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and will delete customer data; the app, originally called Resso, first launched in 2019  —  TikTok Music will go offline on Nov. 28 and customer data will be deleted, the music division said in a post on its website. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Niclas Rolander / Bloomberg: Swedish prosecutors say Iran was behind 15K text messages sent on August 1, 2023 to sow fear in Sweden, asking recipients to exact revenge after Koran burnings  —  Sweden uncovered an Iranian hacking operation to send text messages in a bid to sow fear in the Nordic country. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google plans to include the standalone Gemini app as standard on Workspace Business, Enterprise, and Frontline plans from Q4, replacing the Gemini add-on  —  Google is making Gemini AI a core part of its Workspace productivity suite, which could see the chatbot adopted by millions more users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WP Engine sends a “cease and desist” letter to Automattic to “retract false, harmful, and disparaging statements”, after Matt Mullenweg called it a “cancer”  —  WordPress hosting service WP Engine on Monday sent a cease-and-desist letter to Automattic … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: On its Chinese website, Huawei says its HarmonyOS now has 10,000 apps and meta-services; the latest HarmonyOS update blocked the ability to install Android apps  —  After a few years of building out “HarmonyOS,” Huawei’s latest update has finally blocked the ability to install Android apps at all … Lees verder op Tech Meme