Tech Meme

Callie Holtermann / New York Times: BeReal struggles to retain users as some find its authenticity monotonous; Apptopia: the app’s daily users dropped to under 6M in March from ~15M in October  —  BeReal was pitched as Gen Z’s safe haven from the artifice of social media.  For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so long. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: NYC-based NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage and automate networks, raised a $20M Series A after spinning out of NS1, which IBM acquired in March  —  NetBox Labs, a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Toronto-based Kepler, which plans to launch a constellation of optical satellites to send data at 2.5Gbps to low Earth orbit satellites, raised a $92M Series C  —  Toronto-based startup Kepler Communications closed another tranche of capital to continue building out its on-orbit data network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sheila Dang / Reuters: Sensor Tower: Twitter’s top 50 advertisers spent a combined $83M over the past two months, down from $102M YoY; Mars, AT&T, and Volkswagen haven’t returned  —  Twitter-owner Elon Musk has said advertisers are returning to the social media platform, but statements from several companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Waters / Financial Times: Intel faces huge challenges in revitalizing its business, meaning a central piece of US industrial policy rests on one of the most complex tech turnarounds ever  —  Once the leading player in the semiconductor industry, the company is attempting to pull off one of tech’s most complex turnrounds Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Denver-based Elevate, which provides a dashboard for managing employee benefits, raised $28M led by Anthemis, bringing its total funding to $43M  —  Elevate, a consumer benefits administration platform, today announced that it raised $28 million in a funding round led by Anthemis with participation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Parlement Technologies agrees to sell right-wing social network Parler to Starboard, which will take temporarily shut down Parler ahead of a planned relaunch  —  Social network popular with conservatives will be sold for an undisclosed amount and overhauled for a relaunch Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Parker / CoinDesk: A look at the impact of TerraUSD and FTX’s collapse on the South Korean crypto industry, as Korean media reports the TerraUSD project had ~200,000 local victims  —  The collapse of Terra continues to reverberate in Do Kwon’s homeland, but there are signs of progress, CoinDesk’s Emily Parker reports. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel  —  “There are advocacy groups for reptile owners but not hackers, so that seems like a miss,” said Ilona Cohen of HackerOne. Lees verder op Tech Meme

@twitterwrite: Twitter adds support for tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with italic and bold text formatting, for Blue subscribers  —  We’re making improvements to the writing and reading experience on Twitter! Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with bold and italic text formatting. Sign up for Twitter Blue to access these new features, and apply to enable… https://twitter.com/… Lees verder op Tech Meme