Tech Meme

Emmy Lucas / Forbes: Karat Financial, which offers financial services like banking and credit cards to creators, raised a $70M Series B, split as $40M in equity and $30M in debt  —  The creator economy is booming: Goldman Sachs estimates its total addressable market to be $250 billion today. Lees verder op Tech Meme

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority: Google launches Nearby Share for Windows, letting users transfer files between PCs and Android devices close to each other, after a beta started in March 2023  —  Anyone can download Nearby Share for Windows now, but your future laptop might come with it pre-installed.  —  •  —  TL;DR Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: Miami-based Cosmic Wire, which offers tools for blockchain infrastructure and metaverse creation, raised a $30M seed led by the Solana Foundation and Polygon  —  The startup offers metaverse creation tools and a list of general blockchain infrastructure solutions. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Researchers say hate speech and misinformation on Twitter are up; CEO Linda Yaccarino says that’s “incorrect” and touts improvements, like ad placement controls  —  Since Musk’s takeover, a number of researchers see a rise in hate speech, violent content Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sahil Patel / The Information: Sources: Netflix told advertisers in the past two weeks that its ad-supported tier has ~1.5M US subscribers; Hulu’s 15-year-old ad tier has ~30M US subscribers  —  Around 1.5 million people in the U.S. have signed up to pay for Netflix’s tier of service that carries ads … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple built Ajax, a framework for building LLMs, created a chatbot app that some engineers call “Apple GPT”, and is planning an AI announcement in 2024  —  – Company builds large language models and internal chatbot  — Executives haven’t decided how to release tools to consumers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Beats Studio Pro review: headphones with a good transparency mode, lossless USB-C audio, and native iOS and Android support, but a subpar build quality for $350  —  They look like a lazy refresh from the outside, but the noise-canceling Studio Pros include a ton of new features like transparency mode and lossless USB-C audio. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Meta launches a standalone WhatsApp app for Wear OS 3, letting smartwatch users start chats, reply to messages, and take calls without their connected phone  —  WhatsApp has finally launched its standalone app for smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS, after much anticipation and months-long beta testing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Threads has largely replicated Instagram’s algorithm, prioritizing posts by creators and friends over hard news, and is relying on Instagram moderators  —  Facebook’s parent company downgrades current affairs on Threads app and refuses to engage with Canadian law designed to fund media groups Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wayne Ma / The Information: Sources: Meta’s timeline for releasing AR glasses has slipped to at least 2027, as setbacks caused dropping microLED display tech, lidar, a 3D projector, more  —  In March 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic began to transform the world, the company then known as Facebook struck a deal to buy … Lees verder op Tech Meme