Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: YouTube increases the price of its YouTube TV subscription by $8 to $72.99 per month, citing a rise in content costs  —  YouTube has announced that it’s raising the price of its YouTube TV subscription to $72.99 per month.  The new monthly price is an $8 increase from the current $64.99 monthly fee. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: NYC-based Parker, which offers credit cards to e-commerce businesses doing $3M to $100M in annual sales, emerges from stealth with $37M in equity and $120M debt  —  Parker, a startup offering a corporate credit card for e-commerce businesses, emerged from stealth Thursday with $157 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Microsoft details Business Chat, part of 365 Copilot, which can summarize meetings, recent customer contacts, calendar entries, and more, similar to Bing’s AI  —  One of the new Copilot AI features coming to Microsoft 365 apps and services is dubbed Business Chat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Fairmatic, which helps companies manage vehicle insurance by monitoring their fleets, raised $46M led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88M  —  With inflation sparking an increase in the cost of repairs, labor and claims, fees for insurance are similarly spiking across the board. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitch CEO Emmett Shear plans to step down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy; Shear is one of the original founders of Justin.tv  —  After serving as its chief executive for more than a decade, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will take a step back at the company. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Samsung’s planned chip plant in Taylor, Texas, will now cost over $25B, up $8B from its initial forecasts, due to inflation and rising material costs  —  A chip plant that South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is building in Taylor, Texas, will cost … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Ethereum developers set a target date of around April 12 for the long-awaited Shanghai hard fork, delayed from its initial March target  —  Ethereum developers agreed to April 12 for the long-awaited upgrade that will enable staked ETH withdrawals.  Once the date is confirmed by developers on GitHub, it will be set in stone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to bring OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other apps in the coming months, calling the feature Microsoft 365 Copilot  —  Microsoft Corp.’s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company’s oldest and best-known products: its Office apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft: A live stream of Microsoft’s The Future of Work with AI event, where the company is expected to demo adding OpenAI’s tech to its 365 and Office apps  —  Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate.  But today, we spend too much time consumed by the drudgery of work, on tasks that zap our time, creativity, and energy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers’ and civil servants’ work phones after a National Cyber Security Centre review, following the EU and the US  —  Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China  —  Britain is to ban the Chinese owned … Lees verder op Tech Meme