Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Nasdaq plans to acquire financial software maker Adenza for $10.5B in cash and stock, giving Adenza owner Thoma Bravo a 14.9% stake in Nasdaq and a board seat  —  Nasdaq Inc. agreed to buy financial-software maker Adenza from its private equity owners in the exchange operator’s biggest-ever deal. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: the Dutch government is working on legislation to bar Chinese students from university programs covering sensitive tech, including chips and defense  —  The Dutch government is working on legislation that will be used to bar Chinese students from university programs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: HSBC rebrands SVB UK as HSBC Innovation Banking, adding US, Israel, and Hong Kong teams to offer banking services to startups, investors, and other tech clients  —  Acquired by HSBC in an emergency sale for just £1 in March as SVB was melting down, SVB UK is now getting a rebrand and expansion under its new owner. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit experiences an outage as many users report trouble accessing the service; meanwhile, thousands of subreddits have gone dark to protest API changes  —  Reddit is experiencing some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site’s new API pricing terms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Robinhood reports crypto trading volumes fell 68% YoY to $2.1B in May 2023, daily average trading revenue down 53% YoY, and MAUs fell 28% YoY to 10.6M  —  The trading platform recently delisted three tokens that were classified as securities in the SEC’s lawsuit against Coinbase and Binance. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce renames its AI tools portfolio to AI Cloud, plans to roll out AI features in summer, and doubles its generative AI fund, announced in March, to $500M  —  Salesforce Inc. is elevating new generative artificial intelligence features in its products and doubling its investment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tristan Cross / The Guardian: A writer who learned to code after losing his job reflects on AI chatbots, which repackage ideas and lack lateral thinking, and why humans are irreplaceable  —  Silicon Valley wants to make us believe humans are predictable and our skills replaceable.  I’ve learned that’s nonsense Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: India investigates reports of a breach at a portal with COVID-19 vaccine recipients’ data, affecting 1B+ citizens; Telegram removes a bot that pulled the data  —  India’s government is investigating reports that a health ministry portal containing personal data from anyone in the country … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: MacBook Air (15-inch) review: big screen, thin and light chassis, excellent trackpad, keyboard, performance, and battery, but limited ports and upgradability  —  Apple’s first big-screened MacBook Air addresses a long-standing need in the company’s laptop lineup.  And it comes with zero surprises and no sticker shock. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: As geopolitical tensions rise, foreign investors sell stock in Bilibili, Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese tech companies and pull back on startup funding  —  Geopolitical tension and poor economic recovery drive stock price falls and funding shortages  —  Chinese online entertainment … Lees verder op Tech Meme