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Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Iain Thomson / The Register: Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and unveils VeilidChat, a Signal-like instant messaging app  —  ‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’  —  DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying the “Great 78 Project” is an “illegal record store” for songs  —  Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: The Hollywood Professional Association, which includes Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, urges the AMPTP, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA to find a strike resolution soon  —  “Organizations indispensable to the creation of media are cutting staff… and in some cases, even risk closing,” the Hollywood Professional Association writes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fortesa Latifi / Teen Vogue: Illinois passes the US’ first law protecting child influencers, entitling influencers under age 16 and featured kids of influencers to a percentage of earnings  —  Illinois has officially passed the nation’s first legislation aimed at protecting child influencers, in a move advocates … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vishal Chawla / The Block: a16z crypto unveils Lasso and Jolt, a pair of new tools based on Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or SNARK, to help enable scalable ZK-rollups  —  – A division of Andreessen Horowitz, a16z crypto, has introduced two technologies, Lasso and Jolt, related to SNARKs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manya Saini / Reuters: Chindata Group plans to go private in a $3.16B deal with Bain Capital, ending months of uncertainty on the future of the Chinese data center operator  —  Chindata Group said on Friday it would go private in a sweetened $3.16 billion deal with investor Bain Capital, ending months of uncertainty … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme