Tech Meme

Richard Nieva / Forbes: An interview with Instacart founder and former CEO Apoorva Mehta on Instacart’s beginnings, his decision to exit the board, a reluctance to go public, and more  —  The grocery delivery giant’s founder and former CEO speaks exclusively to Forbes about his decision to exit the board … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Memo: Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and that the company failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations  —  / ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: In a memo, Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and Microsoft failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations  —  / ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: Tabular, which provides an independent storage platform based on Apache Iceberg, raised $26M led by Altimeter Capital, bringing its total funding to $37M  —  California-based Tabular, an independent data platform built by the creators of Apache Iceberg, today announced $26 million in a fresh round of funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Mandiant details UNC53, a China-backed group that hacked 29+ global orgs since 2022 by tricking staff into using malware-infected USB drives, mostly in Africa  —  Security researchers found USB-based Sogu espionage malware spreading within African operations of European and US firms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ed Nightingale / Eurogamer.net: Emails from 2022: worried about Starfield’s delay, Microsoft estimated how much it may have to pay to get specific games on Xbox Game Pass, ranging up to $300M  —  Given very high wow factor.  —  Follow Star Wars Jedi: Survivor  —  The recent leak of internal Microsoft documents gives … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ari Levy / CNBC: Instacart closed up 12.33% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the grocery delivery company at just over $11B; Instacart was valued at $39B in March 2021  —  – Instacart is the first notable venture-backed tech company to hit the U.S. public market since December 2021. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon plans to hire 250K US staff to help manage the holiday rush, up from 150K in 2022, and bumps warehouse and delivery workers’ average pay to $20.50/hour  —  – Amazon said Tuesday it’s hiring 250,000 employees in the U.S. to help manage the holiday rush. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US sees no evidence that China-based SMIC can make the 7nm Kirin 9000s chips in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro “at scale”  —  – Raimondo says she was ‘upset’ at phone release during visit  — US probing new chip, which raised questions on export limits Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says there is no evidence that SMIC can make the 7nm Kirin 9000s chips found in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro “at scale”  —  – Raimondo says she was ‘upset’ at phone release during visit  — US probing new chip, which raised questions on export limits Lees verder op Tech Meme