Tech Meme

James Kynge / Financial Times: Some Nigerian officials raise concerns as Chinese company-backed super apps PalmPay and OPay gain popularity and Huawei’s 5G equipment dominates the country  —  Activities give sense of the importance Chinese companies in several sectors attach to country’s potential Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Astrix Security, which helps companies manage and secure third-party app integrations, raised a $25M Series A led by CRV to expand in Tel Aviv and the US  —  Astrix Security, a platform that helps companies manage and secure third-party app integrations, today announced that it closed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kwaku Gyasi / Bloomberg: Public cloud infrastructure startup Fly.io, which operates data centers in 37 regions globally, raised a $110M Series C led by EQT at a $467M valuation  —  Fly.io, a tech startup whose public cloud infrastructure enables developers to deploy applications, has raised $70 million in a funding round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A look at “Anonymous Sudan”, a self-described hacktivist group targeting Microsoft, Sweden, Israel, the US, and others, which researchers have tied to Russia  —  A hacking group responsible for a series of outages at Microsoft Corp. earlier this month had spent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Carl Pei’s Nothing raised $96M led by Highland ahead of its Phone (2) announcement, taking its total funding to $250M; sources put 2022 revenue at $200M  —  Smartphone sales are in decline as handset makers grapple with saturated markets and a tough consumer economic climate. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: DoorDash announces new features for couriers, including “earn by time” for a guaranteed hourly minimum rate, real-time location sharing, and Dash Along the Way  —  DoorDash is making a big change to the way couriers get paid.  In an announcement on Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition to combat shoplifting, something critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes  —  British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: The European Commission publishes its legislative plans to underpin a digital euro, including safeguards for privacy and financial stability  —  Officials want a digital payment system available to “everyone, everywhere, for free.”  —  BRUSSELS, Belgium – The European Commission published … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Y Combinator received a record 24K applications for its latest cohort, accepting less than 1%, of which around 35% focus on AI and 50% use AI in their business  —  More than one-third of the famed startup accelerator Y Combinator’s latest batch of companies are focused specifically on artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Colin Wilhelm / The Block: A US judge denies Sam Bankman-Fried’s motion to dismiss or sever most of the criminal charges he faces; Bankman-Fried faces 100+ years in prison if convicted  —  A federal judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried’s motion to dismiss or sever most of the criminal charges he faces. Lees verder op Tech Meme