Tech Meme

AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Goldman Sachs is in talks for American Express to take over its ventures with Apple, including Apple Card, a “buy now, pay later” offering, and more  —  American Express in talks to take over Goldman’s card deal, other ventures with tech giant Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: Apple becomes the first publicly traded company to close with a $3T market cap; the company hit a $3T market cap during intraday trading in January 2022  —  – Apple’s market cap topped $3 trillion on Friday, passing the $190.73 share price required to hit the milestone, according to CNBC’s most recent share count. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: US-based Silver Lake acquires 63%+ of Germany-based enterprise software developer Software AG for €2.4B and plans to delist the company as soon as possible  —  US-based private equity firm Silver Lake says it’s secured a majority stake in Software AG and plans to delist the company as soon as possible. Lees verder op Tech Meme

PYMNTS.com: Unit21, a no-code and customizable data monitoring service, raised a $45M Series C to expand its Fintech Fraud DAO data sharing consortium for identifying fraud  —  Unit21 has raised $45 million in a Series C round to grow the Fintech Fraud DAO consortium.  —  The funding is being used … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Sources: Spotify is in talks with partners to add full-length music videos to its app, as part of growing efforts to establish video as a core part of its app  —  Spotify Technology SA is considering adding full-length music videos to its app, which could help the streaming service better compete … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: The FTC proposes penalizing companies for shady review practices, including fining companies buying fake reviews up to $50K for each time a customer sees one  —  If you, too, are so very tired of not knowing which reviews to trust on the internet, we may eventually get some peace of mind. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Kazakhstan arrested Nikita Kislitsin, Group-IB’s former head of network security, on June 22 for his alleged role in the LinkedIn and Dropbox hacks in 2012  —  Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: A summary of the final day and closing arguments in the FTC v. Microsoft hearing; the FTC focused most of its case on Call of Duty and Xbox console exclusivity  —  FTC v. Microsoft is over, but who won? … Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley took the opportunity to reflect, too … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: A summary of the last day and closing arguments in FTC v. Microsoft hearing, where FTC mostly focused on Call of Duty and Xbox console exclusivity  —  FTC v. Microsoft is over, but who won? … Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley took the opportunity to reflect, too: would she even be sitting here … Lees verder op Tech Meme

PYMNTS.com: Unit21, which helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities, raised a $45M Series C to expand its Fintech Fraud DAO data sharing consortium to identify fraud  —  Unit21 has raised $45 million in a Series C round to grow the Fintech Fraud DAO consortium.  —  The funding is being used … Lees verder op Tech Meme