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Similarweb: Chinese-owned OPay and PalmPay became the Play Store's top two finance apps in Nigeria on March 24 after a central bank edict caused a cash shortage (Alexander Onukwue/Semafor) 27-03-2023

Alexander Onukwue / Semafor: Similarweb: Chinese-owned OPay and PalmPay became the Play Store’s top two finance apps in Nigeria on March 24 after a central bank edict caused a cash shortage  —  The main winners in Nigeria’s banking sector after a botched currency overhaul are two Chinese-owned fintech apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

SEMI: in 2024, South Korea is forecast to increase its spending on advanced chipmaking equipment by 41.5% YoY to $21B, versus China's 2% YoY increase to $16.6B (Sam Kim/Bloomberg) 27-03-2023

Sam Kim / Bloomberg: SEMI: in 2024, South Korea is forecast to increase its spending on advanced chipmaking equipment by 41.5% YoY to $21B, versus China’s 2% YoY increase to $16.6B  —  South Korea is forecast to overtake China in spending on advanced chipmaking equipment next year in a sign of US export controls … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Similarweb: Chinese-owned OPay and PalmPay became the Play Store's top finance apps in Nigeria on March 24, after a central bank edict caused a cash shortage (Alexander Onukwue/Semafor) 27-03-2023

Alexander Onukwue / Semafor: Similarweb: Chinese-owned OPay and PalmPay became the Play Store’s top finance apps in Nigeria on March 24, after a central bank edict caused a cash shortage  —  The main winners in Nigeria’s banking sector after a botched currency overhaul are two Chinese-owned fintech apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoom partners with OpenAI to expand its Zoom IQ assistant with features to generate whiteboards from text prompts, recap meetings, summarize threads, and more (Emma Roth/The Verge) 27-03-2023

Emma Roth / The Verge: Zoom partners with OpenAI to expand its Zoom IQ assistant with features to generate whiteboards from text prompts, recap meetings, summarize threads, and more  —  Zoom has become the latest productivity app to expand its use of artificial intelligence.  In a blog post published on Monday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The CFTC sues Binance, CEO CZ, and a former chief compliance officer, calling the company's compliance efforts “a sham” and its structure “intentionally opaque” (CFTC) 27-03-2023

CFTC: The CFTC sues Binance, CEO CZ, and a former chief compliance officer, calling the company’s compliance efforts “a sham” and its structure “intentionally opaque”  —  Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it has filed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft says Teams has 280M MAUs, up from 270M MAUs in January 2022, and the rebuilt Teams rolling out to Windows' Public Preview program is twice as fast (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) 27-03-2023

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft says Teams has 280M MAUs, up from 270M MAUs in January 2022, and the rebuilt Teams rolling out to Windows’ Public Preview program is twice as fast  —  Teams, Microsoft’s Slack rival, has always had a bit of a reputation for being slow and resource-hungry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Polygon launches the mainnet beta of its zkEVM layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, just days after rival Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk) 27-03-2023

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Polygon launches the mainnet beta of its zkEVM layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, just days after rival Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era  —  The release of Polygon’s zkEVM comes just days after competitor Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emoji, Safari web push notifications for sites added to the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for calls, and more (Juli Clover/MacRumors) 27-03-2023

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emoji, Safari web push notifications for sites added to the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for calls, and more  —  Apple today released iOS 16.4, the fourth major update to the iOS 16 operating system that initially came out last September. iOS 16.4 comes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filing: MicroStrategy bought 6,455 BTC for ~$150M from February 16 to March 23 at an average price of $23,238; the company held ~$4.14B worth of BTC on March 23 (Larry DiTore/The Block) 27-03-2023

Larry DiTore / The Block: Filing: MicroStrategy bought 6,455 BTC for ~$150M from February 16 to March 23 at an average price of $23,238; the company held ~$4.14B worth of BTC on March 23  —  – MicroStrategy now has a little more than $4 billion worth of bitcoin in its corporate coffers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Jack Ma has returned to China after over a year; sources: since late 2022, China Premier Li Qiang had urged Ma to return to allay private sector fears (Reuters) 27-03-2023

Reuters: Sources: Jack Ma has returned to China after over a year; sources: since late 2022, China Premier Li Qiang had urged Ma to return to allay private sector fears  —  Alibaba (9988.HK) founder Jack Ma has returned to China, ending a stay overseas of more than a year that industry viewed … Lees verder op Tech Meme