Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY to €3.2B, Premium subscribers grew 17% YoY to 220M, MAUs rose 27% YoY to 551M, and a €112M adjusted operating loss  —  Spotify Technology SA fell as much as 13% in New York trading after the audio streaming giant reported sales that came … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Lawler / The Verge: OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Android in the US, Bangladesh, and Brazil, and plans to launch in more countries next week  —  According to a company tweet, it’s available first in the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with other countries set to follow later, mimicking the staged rollout we saw for the iOS version. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The EU enacts the €43B Chips Act, part of ambitious plans to produce 20% of the world’s chips by 2030, after final approval from ministers  —  The European Union’s plan to bolster domestic semiconductor production will become law after ministers completed the final approval on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY to €3.2B, Premium subscribers grew 17% YoY to 220M, MAUs rose 27% YoY to 551M, and a €112M adjusted operating loss  —  Spotify Technology SA fell as much as 13% in New York trading after the audio streaming giant reported sales that came … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Threads adds an option for a chronological feed of posts from people the user follows  —  Meta’s text-based social network Threads is rolling out one of the most requested features after its launch — a following feed.  —  In a post on his Instagram Channel, Mark Zuckerberg said that the company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: TikTok plans to launch an e-commerce business in the US in early August to sell made-in-China goods to consumers and rival Shein and Temu  —  TikTok wants to replicate the success of other popular China-founded shopping platforms Shein and Temu  —  TikTok is launching … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: SIA and Oxford Economics: despite the US chip industry workforce growing to 460K by 2030, up from ~345K in 2023, there will still be a ~67K worker shortfall  —  The U.S. semiconductor industry faces a shortfall of roughly 67,000 workers by 2030, according to an industry association study published on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elissa Miolene / Mercury News: At schools across California, some Chromebook models are about to age out of software updates; 13 models hit their death date this summer and 51 will in 2024  —  At a lofty warehouse in East Oakland, a dozen students have spent their summer days tinkering with laptops. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The EU enacts the €43B Chips Act, part of ambitious plans to produce 20% of the world’s chips by 2030, after final approval from ministers  —  The European Union’s plan to bolster domestic semiconductor production will become law after ministers completed the final approval on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY to €3.2B, Premium subscribers grew 17% YoY to 220M, MAUs rose 27% YoY to 551M, and a €112M adjusted operating loss  —  Spotify Technology SA, the Swedish audio streaming platform, beat analyst expectations in its second-quarter results … Lees verder op Tech Meme