Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce plans its first price hike in seven years by ~9% for some products like Tableau and Sales Cloud, effective August 2023 for new and existing customers  —  Salesforce Inc. is raising prices for the first time in seven years after introducing artificial intelligence features. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Collective, a financial management service for freelancers offering bookkeeping, payroll, and tax tools, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $82M  —  Collective, a platform and advisory team that provides bookkeeping, payroll and tax advice to freelancers, today announced it raised $50 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Linux distribution company SUSE says it’s creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and plans to invest $10M into the project over the coming years  —  A storm is brewing in open-source land that could change the Linux distro landscape  —  Today, SUSE announced that it is creating … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Threads can avoid Google+’s failure by not simply relying on the scale of Meta’s existing products, but by giving users a compelling reason to keep coming back  —  Mark Zuckerberg has used Meta’s might to push Threads to a fast start — but that may only work up to a point. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A breakdown of Elon Musk’s misguided complaint against law firm Wachtell, which received $90M from Twitter for forcing Musk to complete the $44B Twitter deal  —  Oh Elon  —  Disclosure!  A long time ago I used to work as a very junior mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US district judge dismissed a suit by r/WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski who accused Reddit of wrongly banning him as the community’s moderator in 2020  —  A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit in which the founder of WallStreetBets, which helped ignite investors’ fascination with … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Source: the US FTC is leaning toward appealing the judge’s Microsoft-Activision ruling; an appeal could be filed as soon as Wednesday  —  The US Federal Trade Commission is leaning toward appealing a federal judge’s ruling against the agency’s bid to block Microsoft Corp.’s $69 billion acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Roose / New York Times: Interviews with executives and staff at Anthropic reveal how an obsession with AI safety and ties to effective altruism influence the startup’s decisions  —  Anthropic, a safety-focused A.I. start-up, is trying to compete with ChatGPT while preventing an A.I. apocalypse.  It’s been a little stressful. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: ByteDance will allow restricted shares held by US employees to vest before the company’s IPO, in an effort to appease restless employees  —  ByteDance, the Chinese owner of short video app TikTok, will allow shares owned by U.S. employees to vest without waiting for the company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: India plans to levy a 28% indirect tax on online gaming, casinos, and horse racing, denying a distinction between a “game of skill” and a “game of chance”  —  India plans to impose a significant tax on the fund that online gaming firms collect from consumers in a major blow … Lees verder op Tech Meme