Tech Meme

Reuters: The UK CMA says Meta offered to limit use of other businesses’ ad data for Facebook Marketplace, which the regulator thinks addresses its competition concerns  —  UK’s competition watchdog on Friday said social media giant Meta Platforms Inc had offered to limit the use of other businesses’ advertising data … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: PE firms Francisco Partners and TPG have ended talks to acquire observability software company New Relic after failing to secure enough debt financing  —  Private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG Inc (TPG.O) have ended talks to acquire New Relic Inc (NEWR.N) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: France’s CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day  —  Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: France’s CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day  —  Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: A California jury finds Google’s products infringed on a Sonos smart speaker patent and orders Google to pay $32.5M, or $2.30 for each of the 14M+ devices sold  —  Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million for infringing on the company’s smart speaker patent. Lees verder op Tech Meme

FinSMEs: Germany-based Sastrify, which operates a marketplace for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised a $32M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55.2M  —  Sastrify, a Cologne, Germany-based provider of a platform for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised $32M in Series B funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: France’s CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day  —  Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Bluesky rolls out a “custom feeds” feature that lets users subscribe to different algorithms and make their own for others to use; most are not chronological  —  A future update will allow users to create their own within the app.  —  Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sam Altman says OpenAI “of course” has no plans to leave Europe, reversing a threat to exit the region if the company can’t comply with the EU’s upcoming AI Act  —  OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: France’s CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day  —  Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine. Lees verder op Tech Meme