Tech Meme

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitch CEO Emmett Shear plans to step down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy; Shear is one of the original founders of Justin.tv  —  After serving as its chief executive for more than a decade, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will take a step back at the company. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Samsung’s planned chip plant in Taylor, Texas, will now cost over $25B, up $8B from its initial forecasts, due to inflation and rising material costs  —  A chip plant that South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is building in Taylor, Texas, will cost … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Ethereum developers set a target date of around April 12 for the long-awaited Shanghai hard fork, delayed from its initial March target  —  Ethereum developers agreed to April 12 for the long-awaited upgrade that will enable staked ETH withdrawals.  Once the date is confirmed by developers on GitHub, it will be set in stone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to bring OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other apps in the coming months, calling the feature Microsoft 365 Copilot  —  Microsoft Corp.’s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company’s oldest and best-known products: its Office apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft: A live stream of Microsoft’s The Future of Work with AI event, where the company is expected to demo adding OpenAI’s tech to its 365 and Office apps  —  Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate.  But today, we spend too much time consumed by the drudgery of work, on tasks that zap our time, creativity, and energy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers’ and civil servants’ work phones after a National Cyber Security Centre review, following the EU and the US  —  Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China  —  Britain is to ban the Chinese owned … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Parker, which offers a corporate credit card for e-commerce brands doing $3M to $100M in annual sales, emerges from stealth with $37M in equity and $120M debt  —  Parker, a startup offering a corporate credit card for e-commerce businesses, emerged from stealth Thursday with $157 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: UK bans TikTok from ministers’ and civil servants’ work phones after a National Cyber Security Centre review, in a U-turn from the country’s previous position  —  Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China  —  Britain is to ban … Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: NYC-based Via plans to acquire London-based Citymapper, which has ~50M users and raised ~$60M; sources say investors are mostly not making their money back  —  Last month, when transportation startup Via raised $110 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, CEO Daniel Ramot said it planned … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says divesting from ByteDance won’t fix US concerns, rules out an IPO, and claims the app is unprofitable due to data security spending  —  Shou Zi Chew goes to Capitol Hill next week, as Biden administration demands a divestiture from app’s Chinese owner Lees verder op Tech Meme