Tech Meme

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Global VC funding fell 53% YoY from $162B in Q1 2022 to $76B in Q1 2023, including OpenAI’s reported $10B and Stripe’s $6.5B; $39.2B went to late stage startups  —  Venture and growth investors in private companies continued to scale back their investment pace in the first quarter of 2023, Crunchbase data shows. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube adds a Podcasts tab to channel pages globally on its website and mobile apps, showing playlists that creators have marked as podcasts  —  While we’re still waiting for podcasts to widely roll out (in the US) to YouTube Music, YouTube has added a “Podcasts” tab to channel pages. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Global VC funding fell 53% YoY from $162B in Q1 2022 to $76B in Q1 2023, including OpenAI’s reported $10B and Stripe’s $6.5B; $39.2B went to late stage startups  —  Venture and growth investors in private companies continued to scale back their investment pace in the first quarter of 2023, Crunchbase data shows. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lance Whitney / ZDNet: Microsoft adds three Bing features to its SwiftKey keyboard beta for Android: web search results, a tone option in which AI rewrites text, and the AI chatbot  —  Android users who want to tap into some AI as they type on their phones can now do so with help from Microsoft. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Global VC funding fell 53% YoY from $162B in Q1 2022 to $76B in Q1 2023, including OpenAI’s reported $10B and Stripe’s $6.5B; $39.2B went to late stage startups  —  Venture and growth investors in private companies continued to scale back their investment pace in the first quarter of 2023, Crunchbase data shows. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lance Whitney / ZDNet: Microsoft adds Bing AI features to the beta version of its SwiftKey keyboard for Android, including web search, a chatbot, and a tone mode to rewrite text  —  Android users who want to tap into some AI as they type on their phones can now do so with help from Microsoft. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Global VC funding fell 53% YoY to $76B in Q1 2023, down from $162B in Q1 2022, including OpenAI’s $10B and Stripe’s $6.5B; $39.2B went to late-stage startups  —  Venture and growth investors in private companies continued to scale back their investment pace in the first quarter of 2023, Crunchbase data shows. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Influencers, small businesses, and others say Meta gutting its customer service teams has left them with nobody to call to handle scammers and technical issues  —  – Meta’s two rounds of layoffs are affecting the company’s already poor customer service for users, influencers, communities and businesses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers’ car cameras from 2019 to 2022 in one-on-one chats, including of a car hitting a child riding a bike  —  Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: The Australian Securities & Investments Commission cancels the license of Binance Australia Derivatives, which must close all derivatives positions by April 21  —  The exchange will close all of its customers’ open derivatives positions by April 21.  The Australian Securities … Lees verder op Tech Meme