Tech Meme

Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Spotify shuts down its Clubhouse-style audio app Spotify Live, previously called Locker Room, acquired as part of its €57M Betty Labs acquisition in March 2021  —  Spotify is shutting down its live-audio app Spotify Live, but says it will continue experimenting with live features in its main service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Dogecoin’s price spikes 25%+ after Twitter replaces its website logo with the dogecoin logo; Elon Musk is fighting to get a dogecoin-related lawsuit dismissed  —  Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Fourthline, which offers finance firms AI-based ID verification and compliance tools, raised €50M led by Finch, taking its total funding to €70M  —  As digital financial services become more advanced, so too do the efforts of malicious hackers and fraudsters to crack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: After quietly acquiring Yik Yak, Sidechat revamps the anonymous social app to match its campus chat app; both apps now appear to run on the same servers  —  Yik Yak users are enraged over the changes being made to the anonymous social app after its quiet acquisition by the similarly-focused campus chat app, Sidechat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Spotify shuts down its Clubhouse-style audio app Spotify Live, previously called Locker Room, acquired as part of its €57M Betty Labs acquisition in March 2021  —  Spotify is shutting down its live-audio app Spotify Live, but says it will continue experimenting with live features in its main service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Diane Bartz / Reuters: The US DOJ settles an antitrust complaint against Activision Blizzard over salary limits in professional esports leagues for Overwatch and Call of Duty  —  The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust complaint against Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) on Monday, according to a court filing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Dogecoin’s price spikes 20%+ after Twitter replaces its website logo with the dogecoin logo; Elon Musk is fighting to get a dogecoin-related lawsuit dismissed  —  Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Documents: Google cuts back on fitness classes, tape, staplers, and the frequency of staff laptop replacements; non-engineers will get a Chromebook by default  —  – In a rare companywide memo from CFO Ruth Porat, Google kicked off “multi-year” employee service cuts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zach Baron / GQ: An interview and profile of Tim Cook on running Apple, succeeding Steve Jobs, being an outsider, creativity, reducing smartphone time, Meta, Google, and more  —  As Apple CEO, he has defied his skeptics and refashioned the world’s most creative company on his own exacting terms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Fourthline, which offers finance firms AI-based ID verification and compliance tools, raised €50M led by Finch, taking its total funding to €70M  —  As digital financial services become more advanced, so too do the efforts of malicious hackers and fraudsters to crack … Lees verder op Tech Meme