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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based cybersecurity company Halcyon, which provides protection against ransomware, raised a $50M Series A, including $6M in debt, led by SYN Ventures  —  Following the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021, Jon Miller and Ryan Smith wondered why, with the widespread adoption of security tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Internal Q&A: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to slow hiring, and that net employee growth of 1% to 2% per year will be the standard going forward  —  Facebook-parent CEO says employee growth of 1%-2% a year will be standard in future  —  Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Twitter offered LeBron James a complimentary Blue subscription after he said he wouldn’t pay for one; Musk says he’s paying for “a few” subscriptions personally  —  / After saying he wouldn’t pay, James was offered a complimentary subscription ‘on behalf of Elon Musk.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paresh Dave / Wired: Stack Overflow CEO says the company plans to charge large AI developers for access to the 50M questions and answers on its service as soon as mid-2023  —  The programmer Q&A site joins Reddit in demanding compensation when its data is used to train algorithms and ChatGPT-style bots Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: Sony acquires Firewalk Studios, an AAA multiplayer developer working on a live service PS5 and PC game and now the 20th developer to join PlayStation Studios  —  It will be the 20th PlayStation Studios team  —  News by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B  —  PlayStation has agreed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: Sony agrees to acquire Firewalk Studios, an AAA multiplayer developer working on a live service game for PS5 and PC; Firewalk will join PlayStation Studios  —  It will be the 20th PlayStation Studios team  —  News by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B  —  PlayStation has agreed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Roblox is transcending its kid-oriented roots by reaching older players and welcoming brands; the 17-to-24 age group, up 33% YoY, is Roblox’s fastest growing  —  The 3D-world for kids is attracting an older audience.  It might also be the closest thing we’ve got to a metaverse that already exists. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Google announces Google DeepMind, a unit combining DeepMind’s team and Google Research’s Brain team, to be led by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis as its CEO  —  Search giant merges AI resources to accelerate progress in technology that is reshaping business Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger: Montreal-based Optable, which offers data collaboration and clean room tech for the ad industry, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $23.6M  —  Clean rooms are all the rage right now – and investors are noticing.  —  On Tuesday, data collaboration and clean room platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The EU is taking a pragmatic approach to TikTok, treating the Chinese company like its US rivals, in contrast to the “theatrical” approach that the US is taking  —  Europe is taking a different approach from the US toward TikTok.  But first…  • Instagram will cut or relocate its London employees Lees verder op Tech Meme