Steven Levy / Wired: Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Uber for Teens and potential issues, rising prices, profitability, Lyft, DoorDash, driving for Uber, AI, and more — Dara Khosrowshahi swooped in to tame a beastly work culture and try to make the on-demand giant profitable. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia, Pixar, and the Linux Foundation form the Alliance for OpenUSD, aiming to standardize Pixar’s Universal Scene Description — Five major companies in the 3D content industry — Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar — have come together to form the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD). Lees verder op Tech Meme
Krystal Hu / Reuters: Networking startup Nile, founded by ex-Cisco executives, raised a $175M Series C co-led by March Capital and Saudi Arabia’s Sanabil, taking its funding to $300M — Nile, a networking startup co-founded by former Cisco Systems executives John Chambers and Pankaj Patel, has raised $175 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Neon, a serverless PostgreSQL database startup, raised a $46M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, taking its total funding to $104M, after launching in 2022 — Neon, a serverless PostgreSQL database company, announced it has successfully raised $46 million in a series B round of funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Damien Cave / New York Times: The global race to develop quantum computing, encryption, and more demands balancing protectionism and the spirit of cooperation for the US and its allies — A global race to harness the power of atoms for navigation, computing and encryption is pitting concerns over protectionism against the spirit of cooperation. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Snap launches a new Lens Creator Rewards program for Snapchat to give AR creators and developers a chance to earn up to $7,200/month for top performing Lenses — Snapchat is introducing a new Lens Creator Rewards program to give AR creators and developers the chance to earn money for top-performing Lenses … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Sources: under pressure from the EU, Meta offers to seek user consent in Europe for targeted ads based on users’ digital activity as soon as October 2023 — Under pressure from regulators, the Facebook and Instagram owner proposes asking users to opt in before targeting ads with their digital activity Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: The FBI says a contractor misled the agency and used NSO’s Landmark to track people in Mexico without consent; the FBI terminated the contract in April 2023 — After a Times report, the bureau canceled its contract with a government contractor that used the tool on its behalf. But questions remain. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: After Curve disclosed a hack, CRV dropped by ~25% in three days, prompting fears of wider market turbulence; DefiLlama: crypto using Curve fell ~50% to $1.9B — – Curve’s native CRV coin posted three-day, 25% slump after hack — Drop raised concerns about wider fallout from platform’s woes Lees verder op Tech Meme
Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: Uber reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.23B, gross bookings up 16% YoY to $33.6B, and a $394M net income, up from a $2.6B loss in Q2 2022, its first profit — Ride-hailing and delivery businesses grew in the second quarter, though freight shrank — Uber Technologies posted … Lees verder op Tech Meme