Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: Investor video: Arm CEO Rene Haas outlines a pivot toward complex design work on specific products, a “purpose-built approach” to address the needs of clients  —  – SoftBank-owned chip designer has shifted its strategy  — Arm stock offering is set to get underway later this week Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: TikTok begins rolling out TikTok Shop to all US users, adding a home screen Shop button that sends users to a marketplace, and already has 200K+ sellers  —  The company is beginning to introduce TikTok Shop to all of the app’s users in the U.S., hoping to add a major new revenue stream. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: UK digital bank Monzo launches Investments, letting users invest as little as £1 in BlackRock-picked funds, its first foray into the investment market  —  – British digital bank Monzo has launched a feature that lets users invest with as little as £1. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: in a first, Apple plans to make the India-built iPhone 15 available in the country and some other regions on the global sales debut day  —  – Devices from India to debut at same time as China-made ones  — IPhone 15 marks a milestone for India’s electronics ambitions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Levy / Wired: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on 25 years of Google, competition in AI, ChatGPT in Bing, DeepMind and Google Brain, AI chips, staff’s bureaucracy complaints, and more  —  The tech giant is 25 years old.  In a chatbot war.  On trial for antitrust.  But its CEO says Google is good for 25 more. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Lime says its gross bookings grew 45% YoY to $250M in H1 2023 and the adjusted EBITDA reached $27M, as CEO Wayne Ting hints at an IPO  —  Lime, the startup with shared e-scooters and e-bikes in 280 cities around the world, has been talking about going public for years. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: California Senate passes a bill that requires the presence of a human safety operator in self-driving trucks on public roads; bill requires governor’s approval  —  In a blow to the autonomous trucking industry, the California Senate passed a bill Monday that requires a trained human safety operator … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fanny Potkin / Reuters: GlobalFoundries opens a $4B chip fabrication plant in Singapore aiming to produce up to 450K 300mm wafers per year; Singapore makes 11% of total global chips  —  GlobalFoundries (GFS.O), one of the world’s top five largest contract chipmakers, launched a $4 billion fabrication plant in Singapore on Tuesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: Visa’s credit card disputes hit 90M+ in 2022, up 24% in 2020 and ~2% in both 2021 and 2022, widely attributed to the online shopping shift since the pandemic  —  – Visa fields 90 million disputes annually after pandemic boom  — Rise is mainly attributed to e-commerce growth and inflation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly: The Internet Archive appeals a US judge’s decision in March 2023 favoring publishers in a copyright infringement case over the nonprofit’s ebook lending program  —  As expected, the Internet Archive this week submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely-watched copyright case involving … Lees verder op Tech Meme