Tech Meme

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: Revolut says CFO Mikko Salovaara plans to leave “for personal reasons”, two months after CEO James Radford left, as the company waits for a UK banking license  —  Exits of Mikko Salovaara and James Radford follow last year’s exodus of executives Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Review of the $700 Asus ROG Ally: fast performance and smooth variable refresh screen, but Windows is hard to use on a handheld and the UI has major glitches  —  A big step forward for Windows handhelds — but is Windows the way forward at all? … Windows handheld gaming PCs existed before the Deck … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: A judge rules that $300M in BlockFi’s wallets belong to clients, not the bankrupt lender’s estate; $375M in interest-bearing accounts belong to the estate  —  A further $375 million that users tried to transfer out of interest-bearing accounts after Nov. 10 still belongs to the estate, Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan said Lees verder op Tech Meme

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: JD.com says CEO Xu Lei plans to step down in June 2023 “due to personal reasons”, after taking the role in April 2022; CFO Sandy Ran Xu will take over as CEO  —  – JD.com shares rose in pre-market trade in the U.S. on Thursday after it said it swung to profit in the first quarter and announced a management shakeup. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: A look at Tel Aviv-based Rayzone, whose surveillance system Echo, sold to governments globally, harvests and repurposes ad data to track people via their phones  —  The innovation at the heart of the advertising technology industry is automated auctions to trade real-time data about mobile phone users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Brisbane-based edtech startup Go1 acquires Berlin-based Blinkist, which offers 15-minute summaries of non-fiction books, and raised $30M from Insight Partners  —  After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Che Pan / South China Morning Post: Chinese chipmaker SMIC reports Q1 revenue down 20.6% YoY to $1.46B and net income down 48.3% YoY to $231.1M, both beating analyst estimates  —  Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) , China’s top contract chip maker, posted its biggest drop in quarterly revenue in over a decade … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Haaretz: A profile of Andreas Fink, a Swiss telecom expert whose services let state agencies, like Israeli disinformation unit Team Jorge, attack phone networks globally  —  The international mobile system is exposed and a loophole allows hackers, cybercriminals and states to geolocate targets and even hijack email and web accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: A look at Microsoft’s Trust Code compliance training video series, headed into season seven, that has hooked employees with popular characters and cliffhangers  —  Instead of a finger-wagging snoozer about corporate misbehavior, ‘Trust Code’ has flawed characters, dramatic cliffhangers and fans worldwide Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Robinhood reported crypto trading revenue of $38M for Q1 2023, down ~30% YoY and 1% QoQ, and says it has ~$11.5B worth of crypto in assets, up 36% from Q4 2022  —  The trading platform also reported holding around $11.5 billion worth of crypto in assets under custody, an increase of 36% versus the fourth quarter. Lees verder op Tech Meme