Tech Meme

Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Meta removes the largest Chinese influence campaign to date; the campaign spans thousands of accounts, and many are still active on TikTok, X, and Reddit  —  The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says Duet AI for Workspace will cost $30/month/user for enterprise, consumer pricing will come in the coming months, and Workspace has 10M paying users  —  Back at I/O in May, Google announced that Duet AI would be the brand for generative AI in Workspace (and Cloud). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sara Fischer / Axios: TechCrunch acquires Connie Loizos’ media startup StrictlyVC and names her as TC’s EIC and GM; longtime EIC Matthew Panzarino will remain an adviser through 2023  —  TechCrunch, the digital tech and business publication owned by Yahoo, has acquired StrictlyVC, a media startup, from longtime Silicon Valley journalist Connie Loizos. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: A US appeals court rules that the SEC must “vacate” and review its rejection of Grayscale’s bid to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an ETF  —  A federal appeals court ordered the SEC to “vacate” its rejection of the trust issuer’s bid to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Meta removes the largest Chinese influence campaign to date from its properties; it spans thousands of accounts, and many are still active on TikTok, X, Reddit  —  The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Swedish payments company Trustly acquires French recurring payments service SlimPay, sources say for €70M; Trustly shelved IPO plans in 2021  —  Swedish payments firm Trustly has acquired the French recurring payments platform SlimPay as it continues its Europe-wide expansion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Swedish payments company Trustly acquires French recurring payments service SlimPay, sources say for €70M; Trustly shelved IPO plans in 2021  —  Swedish payments firm Trustly has acquired the French recurring payments platform SlimPay as it continues its Europe-wide expansion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: An OHCHR investigation finds 120K+ people in Myanmar and ~100K people in Cambodia “may be held in situations where they are forced to carry out online scams”  —  The U.N. human rights office says criminal gangs have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Snap begins rolling out Dreams, a take on the generative AI selfies that Lensa and others have popularized, for $1 per eight-photo pack, after a first free pack  —  After releasing its My AI chatbot earlier this year, Snapchat is now jumping on the AI selfie bandwagon with a new feature called Dreams. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Similarweb and Data.ai: Meta blocking news in Canada has had almost no impact on Canadians’ Facebook usage, supporting Meta’s claim that news holds little value  —  Meta’s (META.O) decision to block news links in Canada this month has had almost no impact on Canadians’ usage of Facebook … Lees verder op Tech Meme