Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Viome, which uses AI to assess customers’ microbiomes and provide them with supplements, raised a $86.5M Series C, bringing its total funding to $175M  —  Research on the human microbiome — microorganism communities that live in a part of your body such as your mouth or gut … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature in the next few weeks, letting streamers block banned users from watching streams  —  Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Sharwood / The Register: PE firm EQT plans to take the German software company SUSE private at €16/share, below the €30 price of its 2021 IPO but above Thursday’s closing price of €9.6  —  Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO  —  Linux-loving software house SUSE … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: A book excerpt traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar that use forced labor to run pig butchering scams involving Tether  —  The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I’m Vicky Ho don’t you remember me?” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manya Saini / Reuters: KPMG: Canadian fintech activity totaled $353.7M across 57 deals from January 2023 to June 2023, down from $834.1M across 109 deals for same time period in 2022  —  Investment in Canada’s financial technology sector was reduced to less than half in the first six months of 2023 from last year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Sharwood / The Register: PE firm EQT plans to take the German software company SUSE private at €16/share, below the €30 price of its 2021 IPO but above Thursday’s closing price of €9.6  —  Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO  —  Linux-loving software house SUSE … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company’s annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The EU Commission plans to carry out a regulatory assessment of Qualcomm’s acquisition of Israeli fabless chipmaker Autotalks, a deal announced in May 2023  —  Qualcomm announced the planned takeover in May as the US company looks to expand its automotive-related business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Sharwood / The Register: PE firm EQT plans to take the German software firm SUSE private at €16 per share, below the €30 price of its 2021 IPO but above Thursday’s closing price of €9.6  —  Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO  —  Linux-loving software house SUSE … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company’s annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform Lees verder op Tech Meme