Tech Meme

Amanda Hoover / Wired: NYC’s Local Law 18, which imposes registration and other requirements on short-term rentals, goes into force, potentially wiping out thousands of Airbnbs  —  Thousands of Airbnbs and other short-term rentals are expected to disappear from rental platforms as New York City begins enforcing tight restrictions. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Harmonya, which offers software to help retail and consumer packaged goods companies decipher their product data, raised a $20M Series A led by Bright Pixel  —  Like other companies, retailers and consumer packaged goods companies have a lot of data accumulated about their products and consumers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Filing: Apple signed a new deal with Arm for chip technology that “extends beyond 2040”  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has signed a new deal with Arm for chip technology that “extends beyond 2040,” according to Arm’s initial public offering documents filed on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

RT Watson / The Block: MetaMask says its customers in the US, UK, and parts of Europe can now convert ether for traditional fiat currency with a new sell function  —  – Company announces customers can now convert crypto for traditional fiat currency with a new sell function.  — MetaMask customers that choose … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sundar Pichai / The Keyword: Sundar Pichai reflects on Google turning 25, says search is “still our biggest moonshot” and that AI will be the biggest tech shift “we see in our lifetimes”  —  Editor’s note: Google will officially celebrate our 25th birthday later this month. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nick Baker / CoinDesk: SEC filing: Coinbase has created a new crypto lending service in the US for institutional clients and has raised $57M for the program  —  Coinbase (COIN) raised $57 million for the platform as of Sept. 1, according to an SEC filing.  —  Coinbase (COIN) has created a new crypto lending service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: Source: the FTC plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon later this month, after Amazon offered no concessions in an August meeting with FTC officials  —  E-commerce giant’s lawyers offered no concessions in talks with agency officials last month  —  officials haven’t offered concessions … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Apple acquires Sweden-based BIS Records, founded in 1973, and plans to fold the classical music label into Apple Music Classical and Apple’s A&R label Platoon  —  More than 80% of the music we listen to today is delivered over streaming, according to figures from last year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Amazon will now charge $1.99 per delivery for in-garage deliveries that used to be free if the date is outside a customer’s designated weekly “Amazon Day”  —  / Now there’s an extra $1.99 fee to have Amazon drop packages off in your garage outside of your specified ‘Amazon Day.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple says visionOS beta will include the App Store this fall and, by default, iPad and iPhone apps will be published automatically on the Vision Pro app store  —  As developers continue to work on bringing their apps to Vision Pro, Apple has shared a new update via its website with details on the Vision Pro’s App Store. Lees verder op Tech Meme