Tech Meme

Ilya Banares / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.43B est., GMV up 15% YoY to $49.6B, vs. $47.7B est., and plans to cut ~20% of its staff; SHOP jumps 20%+  —  Shopify Inc. cut jobs for the second time in less than a year and agreed to sell the majority of its logistics business … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jemima Kelly / Financial Times: Twitter’s Community Notes is changing fact-checking by avoiding the term and using a crowdsourced consensus, a model for a fairer and more transparent approach  —  The strength of the platform’s Community Notes feature is that it works through consensus  —  I think I might have let out an audible groan … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Lawler / The Verge: Google releases a brief teaser video showing off the Pixel Fold, confirming that it will be officially revealed on May 10 during the Google I/O 2023 event  —  / This is Google’s first foldable phone.  More details are coming at Google I/O on May 10th. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel-based Novidea, which sells software for every aspect of insurance, raised a $50M Series C led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $90M  —  Using an open API architecture, Novidea’s software platform enables brokers, agents, and MGAs to modernize and manage the customer insurance journey Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The CJEU clarifies GDPR compensation and data access rights, including saying that there is no threshold of harm to confer a right to compensation  —  The European Union’s top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Novidea, which offers software spanning every aspect of an insurance business, raised a $50M Series C, brining its total funding to $90M  —  Using an open API architecture, Novidea’s software platform enables brokers, agents, and MGAs to modernize and manage the customer insurance journey Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: As some US VCs crash parties in the Middle East to find funding, some view their desperation poorly because the region’s investors value long-term relationships  —  Silicon Valley has taken investment from moneyed state-run funds in the Middle East for years. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Melendez / Fast Company: Khan Academy pilots Khanmigo, a chatbot based on GPT-4 to help students with math problems, debugging code, debating, and other topics without enabling cheating  —  Sal Khan, founder and CEO of online learning nonprofit Khan Academy, wants to turn GPT into a tutor. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Salesforce announces SlackGPT, which will let users and developers build AI-driven experiences on the platform, and plans to incorporate EinsteinGPT into Slack  —  Slack has evolved from a pure communications platform to one that enables companies to link directly to enterprise applications without having … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Discord plans to remove the four-digit tag after its usernames to make it “easier to connect” with others, forcing users to pick a username with the @ symbol  —  Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users. Lees verder op Tech Meme