Tech Meme

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Filing: Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma became the biggest investor in the company, with a 19.42% stake, after he acquired shares from China’s Ant Group  —  Billionaire Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and chief executive officer of India’s biggest digital payments company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Poskitt / GamesIndustry.biz: Q&A with Bethesda Head of Publishing Pete Hines on releasing Starfield, working with Microsoft, Game Pass, triple-A games in 2023, debugging Starfield, and more  —  Head of publishing on why the developer prioritises player freedom over less buggy games, and facing expectations around its sci-fi epic Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: The Huawei Mate 60 Pro’s 7nm Kirin 9000s chip, made by SMIC, is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary development and shows US curbs are porous, not useless  —  Chinese chipmakers have done well to bypass restrictions, but that won’t be repeated often.  —  A new smartphone … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: TechInsights teardown: Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro uses a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by SMIC using a 7nm process, a blow to US sanctions  —  The company’s Mate 60 Pro is powered by SMIC’s 7nm chips, according to analysis that TechInsights conducted for Bloomberg News Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Ye / Reuters: Documents: Tencent, Xiaomi, and others begin enforcing China’s new app store rules, which require regulatory disclosures; Apple has not yet begun checking apps  —  Mobile app stores in China run by Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), Xiaomi (1810.HK) and others have started to bar app publishers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Binder / Mashable: After the ADL’s CEO talked to X CEO Linda Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic posts surged, #BanTheADL trended, and Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts  —  Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours.  —  Over the past 24 hours … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Blake / Digital Trends: An interview with Apple executives Susan Prescott and Steve Sinclair on building apps for the Vision Pro and how Apple is trying to lure developers to make apps  —  Apple’s Vision Pro headset hasn’t launched yet, but already it’s become one of the most hotly debated devices on the planet. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: CCData: the stablecoin market contracted 0.4% to ~$125B in August, the 17th straight month of decline, reflecting low trading volumes and reduced DeFi activity  —  – Total stablecoin market cap declined in August again: CCData  — Tether showed its first market-cap loss in nine months Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The London Stock Exchange plans to add a blockchain-based digital assets business after a year of testing, but is “not building anything around cryptoassets”  —  Exchange operator in talks with UK government and regulators over new trading venue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zack Abrams / The Block: Gala Games CEO Eric Schiermeyer sues co-founder Wright Thurston, alleging he stole 8.6B GALA tokens, worth $130M, from the Web3 gaming startup; GALA drops 13%  —  – The value of Gala Games’ token has dropped 13% following a lawsuit filed by its CEO accusing the company’s co-founder of theft of $130 million in GALA tokens. Lees verder op Tech Meme