Tech Meme

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: A US appeals court affirms a lower court’s 2021 ruling largely rejecting claims by Epic that Apple’s App Store policy banning third-party app stores was illegal  —  Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store’s policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Kruzel / Reuters: SCOTUS agrees to hear two First Amendment cases about government officials blocking critics on social media, after a similar Donald Trump Twitter case in 2021  —  The U.S. Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on Monday agreed to consider whether the Constitution’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: to avoid an official antitrust probe by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, following a complaint from Slack to the EU  —  Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack Lees verder op Tech Meme

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: A look at Alethea, Graphika, and other startups that raised $300M+ from 2018 to 2022 to fight disinformation, charging companies and governments $100K+ per year  —  Shawn Eib was on the case as soon as customers started pulling billions of dollars from Silicon Valley Bank. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: A poll of 1,500 US voters finds that 46% support a nationwide ban of TikTok and 35% oppose it; 62% of Republicans favor a ban, compared to 33% of Democrats  —  Majority of GOP voters support banning Chinese-owned app, compared with 33% of Democrats  —  WASHINGTON—Nearly half … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Research in 2021: 60%+ of undersea internet cable faults are caused by fishing equipment or anchors; repairing one typically costs between $250K and $3M  —  On the evening of Oct. 14, the managing director of Shefa, a Faroese Telecom subsidiary, received a call from one of his technicians … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to nearly $200M  —  The current inflation environment has all of us looking for ways to cut costs and save some money. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A look at LAION, a free AI training dataset with 5B+ images used in Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann  —  In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: A look at “the flattening”: tech companies laying off middle managers to improve efficiency and cut costs after hiring them in droves during the pandemic boom  —  Moves to carve out a layer of staff aim to speed up decisions but could leave a talent gap Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snapchat sees a spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the “My AI” chatbot feature, powered by OpenAI GPT tech, that launched to users globally on April 19  —  The user reviews for Snapchat’s “My AI” feature are in — and they’re not good.  Launched last week to global users … Lees verder op Tech Meme