Tech Meme

Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC: Some software firms are facing large tax bills after US lawmakers failed to renew a provision letting companies to fully expense R&D costs in the year incurred  —  – Congress failed to extend a key tax provision last year allowing companies to fully expense research & development costs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Avalor, which lets cybersecurity teams aggregate, normalize, de-duplicate, and track risk data from discovery to remediation, raised a $25M Series A led by TCV  —  Security has a data problem.  That’s according to Kfir Tishbi, who led the engineering team at Datorama, a marketing analytics company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Internal memo: Meta will conduct another mass round of layoffs on April 19, a source says possibly in the range of 4,000 jobs, out of the planned 10,000  —  The company plans to lay off employees on Wednesday, according to sources.  —  Meta will conduct another mass round of layoffs on Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Novinson / BankInfoSecurity.com: Cyber risk quantification startup Safe Security raised a $50M Series B led by Sorenson Capital  —  Generative AI Can Help Nontechnical Executives Better Understand Security Posture  —  A cyber risk quantification startup backed by ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers has raised $50 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix delays a “broad rollout” of its paid sharing plan to Q2 2023, including to the US, after its Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain launch in February  —  Netflix said it would stage a “broad rollout” of its paid-sharing plan in the second quarter of 2023, including in the U.S. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Semgrep, formally r2c, which offers tools to help devs scan for vulnerable code, raised a $53M Series C led by Lightspeed, bringing its total funding to $93M  —  Ideally, when it comes to building secure applications, it’s best to check the code as it moves through the development process … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Microsoft and Epic Systems partner to bring Azure OpenAI services, including GPT-4, to help automate some processes in Epic’s electronic health record software  —  Generative AI promises to streamline health care, but critics say not so fast.  —  On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Union strike a provisional deal for its ~$47B Chips Act, which aims to double the bloc’s share of global chip output to 20% by 2030  —  The European Union on Tuesday agreed a 43 billion euro ($47 billion) plan for its semiconductor industry in an attempt to catch up with the United States … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Sources: Meta is expected to conduct another mass round of layoffs on April 19, a source says possibly in the range of 4,000 jobs, out of the planned 10,000  —  The company plans to lay off employees on Wednesday, according to sources.  —  Meta is expected to conduct another mass round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Docs: Google plans to unveil the Pixel Fold on May 10, offering a 7.6 main screen, a 5.8 outside screen, and Tensor G2, launching in June for upward of $1,700  —  – Google is planning to launch its first foldable smartphone at upward of $1,700, making it the highest price-point product … Lees verder op Tech Meme