Todd Spangler / Variety: In a post on X, Elon Musk says “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs” as it “makes no sense”, without giving further details — “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs,” the tech mogul posted on X Friday. “Makes no sense.” Lees verder op Tech Meme
Anirban Sen / Reuters: Sources: SoftBank has acquired a 25% stake in Arm from its Vision Fund unit at a $64B valuation and will make the chip designer’s IPO filing public on Monday — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) has acquired the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from its Vision Fund unit in a deal … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams — The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I’m Vicky Ho don’t you remember me?” Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Email: Amazon offers some creators up to $12,500 for 500 videos, or $25 per video, for its TikTok-like shopping feed; creators typically charge $200+ per video — – Content creators typically charge more than $200 a pop — Amazon.com Inc., looking to amp up its TikTok-like shopping feed … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature within weeks that automatically blocks a streamer’s banned users from watching their streams — Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Simon Sharwood / The Register: PE firm EQT plans to take the German software company SUSE private at €16/share, below the €30 price of its 2021 IPO but above Thursday’s closing price of €9.6 — Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO — Linux-loving software house SUSE … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Sources: Meta is preparing to release “Code Llama”, a free, open-source code-generating AI model based on Llama 2, as soon as next week, to rival OpenAI’s Codex — Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Email: Amazon is offering $12,500 to some creators for 500 videos, or $25 a video, for its TikTok-like shopping feed; creators typically charge $200+ per video — – Content creators typically charge more than $200 a pop — Amazon.com Inc., looking to amp up its TikTok-like shopping feed … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Viome, which sells supplements to customers based on AI-based assessments of their microbiomes, raised an $86.5M Series C, bringing its total funding to $175M — Research on the human microbiome — microorganism communities that live in a part of your body such as your mouth or gut … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Manya Saini / Reuters: KPMG: Canadian fintech investments, including VC, private equity, and M&A, totaled $353.7M across 57 deals in H1 2023, vs. $834.1M across 109 deals in H1 2022 — Investment in Canada’s financial technology sector was reduced to less than half in the first six months of 2023 from last year … Lees verder op Tech Meme