Tech Meme

Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: New York’s AG proposes the Crypto Regulation, Protection, Transparency and Oversight Act, or CRPTO, seeking broader enforcement authority over crypto companies  —  Proposed legislation would require crypto exchanges to have independent public audits of financial statements, among other new requirements Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: Smartphone shipments declined 14% YoY and 7% QoQ globally to 280.2M units in Q1 2023; Samsung declined 19%, Apple 2%, Xiaomi 22%, Oppo 10%, and Vivo 18%  —  – The global smartphone market declined by 14% YoY and 7% QoQ to record 280.2 million unit shipments in Q1 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eric Berger / Ars Technica: Airbus, Eutelsat, SES, Thales, and other European satellite companies plan to bid for the IRIS² satellite constellation, to rival SpaceX’s Starlink in the EU  —  The bid includes large players such as Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, and SES.  —  A consortium of nearly every major … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia: Apple’s Q2 revenue rose 15.3% YoY in Asia-Pacific, grew by “very strong double digits” YoY in India, but fell 2.9% YoY in Greater China and 7.1% YoY in Japan  —  iPhone maker logs double-digit growth in India, says market at ‘tipping point’  —  Asia-Pacific, outside of Japan … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: A review of the $250 JBL Tour Pro 2 wireless earbuds, whose case has a touchscreen for accessing earbud settings, along with extras like timers and a flashlight  —  The touchscreen offers quick access to earbud settings along with extras like timers and even a flashlight. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eric Berger / Ars Technica: Airbus, Eutelsat, SES, Thales, and other European satellite companies plan to bid for the IRIS² satellite constellation, to rival SpaceX’s Starlink in the EU  —  The bid includes large players such as Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, and SES.  —  A consortium of nearly every major … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Fung / CNN: New York’s MTA resumes posting automated transit alerts to Twitter after the platform backtracked on a plan to charge public service accounts for API access  —  New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it would resume posting automated transit alerts to Twitter on Thursday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ina Fried / Axios: Tim Cook says Apple sees AI as “huge” but that “it’s very important to be “deliberative and thoughtful” as there are “a number of issues that need to be sorted”  —  Tim Cook said Thursday that AI is “huge” but cautioned that there are … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Jakarta-based Praktis, which sells end-to-end supply chain software to direct-to-consumer brands and suppliers, raised a $20M Series A led by East Ventures  —  Small to medium-sized enterprises contribute 60% of Indonesia’s gross domestic product.  But companies in the D2C space still struggle to compete against bigger brands. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: NY AG proposes the Crypto Regulation, Protection, Transparency and Oversight Act, or CRPTO, seeking broader enforcement authority over crypto companies  —  Proposed legislation would require crypto exchanges to have independent public audits of financial statements, among other new requirements Lees verder op Tech Meme