Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Lucy Guo’s Passes to Buy Fanhouse — A startup that rode the pandemic-era frenzy around OnlyFans is selling to a rival. Fanhouse, which operates a website where creators charge fans for exclusive content, has agreed to sell itself to Passes, a Miami-based membership service for creators … Lees verder op Tech Meme
The Economic Times: Sources: Foxconn is in talks with TSMC and Japan’s TMH to build chip factories in India, days after its $19.5B venture with Vedanta ended — Foxconn is likely to soon finalise the details of the partnership to manufacture both advanced and legacy node chips, a source close to the development told ET. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Creator monetization platform Fanhouse agrees to be acquired by Passes, a rival platform that only launched in beta in December 2022 and raised a $9M seed — A startup that rode the pandemic-era frenzy around OnlyFans is selling to a rival. Fanhouse, which operates a website … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jordan Novet / CNBC: The US Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit denies the FTC’s appeal for an injunctive relief to stop Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard from closing — In a victory for Microsoft, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit late on Friday denied the Federal Trade Commission’s appeal … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Brendan Pierson / Reuters: A US appeals court temporarily blocks a lower court order that sharply limited US government officials’ and agencies’ contacts with social media companies — A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court order that had sharply limited certain Biden administration officials … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Matt Binder / Mashable: Some Reddit users report disappearance of their private messages from before 2023; Reddit says the move was announced on June 22 and is effective since June 30 — Many Redditors were caught off guard by the removal of their chat and message history. — The Reddit blackout protests … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Lora Kolodny / CNBC: In a Twitter Spaces chat, Elon Musk says xAI plans to collaborate with Tesla on silicon and AI software, use public tweets for AI training, and more — – During a live audio session on Twitter, owner and chairman Elon Musk said his new AI startup, xAI, will use Twitter data for training the … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jordan Novet / CNBC: The US Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit denies the FTC’s appeal of a judge’s decision that would have stopped Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard — In a victory for Microsoft, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit late on Friday denied the Federal Trade Commission’s appeal … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Matt Levine / Bloomberg: The Ripple ruling implies securities laws protect only sophisticated investors, the opposite of the US stock market’s rule, and seems likely to work out poorly — Crypto tokens are securities unless you are anonymously dumping them on retail investors. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Matt Wales / Eurogamer.net: Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, Xbox’s senior director of corporate communications, is leaving Microsoft after 22 years to “work on the next chapter of my career” — To “work on the next chapter of my career.” — Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, long one of the most recognisable presences … Lees verder op Tech Meme