Tech Meme

Rebecca Jennings / Vox: A look at YouTube and TikTok “hustle gurus” claiming to teach followers how to earn passive income through dropshipping, crypto schemes, AI companies, and more  —  YouTube and TikTok are plagued with 20-something “passive income” bros who want your attention — and your money. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: SVB Financial Group, the holding company for SVB Capital and SVB Securities, files for Chapter 11 and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity”  —  One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: SVB Financial files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its securities and venture capital entities and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity”  —  One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: How tech from Synthesia, an AI startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and GV, is being used to make deepfake news videos promoted by Venezuela’s government  —  UK tech company developed software used in fake news videos promoted by authoritarian government  —  As Venezuela prepared for carnival season … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: After SVB froze its deposits, HR software startup Rippling raised a $500M Series E at an $11.25B valuation, same as Series D, taking its total funding to $1.2B  —  As a serial entrepreneur who has famously endured some ups and downs, Parker Conrad has nearly seen it all.  Or so he might have thought until last week. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: SVB Financial, the holding company for its securities and venture capital entities, files for Chapter 11 and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity”  —  One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: HR software startup Rippling raised a $500M Series E at an $11.25B valuation, same as Series D, when SVB froze its deposits, taking its total funding to $1.2B  —  As a serial entrepreneur who has famously endured some ups and downs, Parker Conrad has nearly seen it all.  Or so he might have thought until last week. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hailey Fuchs / Politico: Source: TikTok is paying dozens of creators to visit DC next week and lobby lawmakers against a forced sale, ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony on March 23  —  The influential social media app TikTok is flooding the nation’s capital with influencers next week as part of an 11th hour lobbying blitz … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: Sources: some lawmakers and tech executives like Peter Thiel are mobilizing against China’s involvement in US tech, ahead of the TikTok CEO’s US House testimony  —  Group to meet ahead of TikTok’s testimony before Congress  —  A group of Silicon Valley executives, including investor Peter Thiel … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Brown / NME: The FTC finalized a $245M fine for Epic Games on March 14 over tricking users into making unintended Fortnite purchases and bans Epic from using dark patterns  —  Epic Games faces over half a billion dollars in fines from the FTC  —  The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) … Lees verder op Tech Meme