Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: The European Commission issues a preliminary antitrust complaint against Google over its ad business, suggesting breaking up the unit; Google can now reply  —  The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business, saying that its preliminary view is that … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Vodafone and Three agree to combine to create the UK’s largest mobile network, pending regulatory approval, and will take on £6B in debt; Vodafone will own 51%  —  Vodafone Group Plc and CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. agreed to combine their UK mobile businesses in a deal that will create … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Amazon VP of EC2 Dave Brown says AWS is considering using AMD’s new MI300 chips and declined to use Nvidia’s DGX Cloud chips; Oracle is Nvidia’s first partner  —  Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O), the world’s largest cloud computing provider, is considering using new artificial intelligence chips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Samsung plans to let non-factory, full-time chip staff in South Korea take one Friday off each month, after SK Hynix adopted a similar policy in 2022  —  Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest memory chipmaker, is giving staff in South Korea one Friday off each month in a bid … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Arm discusses participating in its IPO with 10+ clients, including Intel, Apple, Alphabet, TSMC, and Samsung; any decision won’t come until August  —  June 12 (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp’s (9984.T) Arm is in talks with some of its biggest customers and end users about bringing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: Comprehensive.io: salaries for senior engineers who specialize in AI and ML are 12% higher than for those who do not; AI-related salaries rose 4% in a year  —  There have been many innovations in Silicon Valley over the past decade, but for people who aspire to work in the tech industry … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Analysis: the EU funds Huawei to run 11 projects, from AI and 6G to cloud computing, despite several EU nations banning the company from their telecom networks  —  Number of sensitive Horizon Europe research programmes include communications company facing range of curbs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Kodem, which uses runtime intelligence to find and mitigate application security risks, emerges from stealth with a $7M seed and an $18M Series A  —  A new startup is entering the fray in the market of application security: Kodem, a company out of Israel founded by a team … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Block: Filing: the SEC anticipates the agency will take 120 days to potentially respond to Coinbase’s request for clearer rulemaking on digital asset trading  —  – The SEC has put forth its position on Coinbase’s rulemaking petition.  — The agency said it anticipates needing four months to potentially respond. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Databricks reports annual revenue jumped 60%+ to $1B in the fiscal year to January 2023 and plans to acquire Rubicon, an AI storage system startup  —  Databricks Inc. said it generated $1 billion in annual revenue and has diversified its business with new products and tools for artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme