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Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Transcarent, which offers a medical concierge app service for businesses, completes its ~$621M acquisition of digital health company Accolade, taking it private  —  Digital health startup Transcarent on Tuesday announced it completed its acquisition of Accolade in a deal valued at roughly $621 million. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: Qualtrics founder and Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith launches a $1B fund aimed at connecting tech startups with sports and entertainment across 20 to 25 investments  —  Utah Jazz owner and Qualtrics cofounder Ryan Smith is teaming up with Accel pal Ryan Sweeney to launch HXCO … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Tech CEOs who spent big on Trump’s inauguration have yet to see the investment pay off; Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are down 22% since January 20  —  With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Istanbul-based fintech Sipay, which bills itself as “Stripe for emerging markets”, raised a $78M Series B at an $875M valuation to expand outside of Turkey  —  Billing itself as “Stripe for emerging markets,” Turkish Fintech Sipay has raised a $78 million Series B funding round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Google rolls out Gemini Live camera and screenshare features to the Pixel 9 series and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices, available in 45 languages for users 18 and up  —  It’s also coming soon to paid Gemini Advanced users on other devices. … Google’s Gemini Live camera and screenshare functions … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Darryn Bonthuys / GameSpot: Nintendo says the Switch 2’s Game-Key cards, which trigger a game download when loaded, are not tied to a user’s account and can be resold, unlike the Switch’s  —  Nintendo’s new Game-Key cards will work in any Switch 2 console they’re inserted into.  —  With the Switch 2 generation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Amazon launches Nova Sonic, an AI voice model to generate natural-sounding speech that it says is “the most cost-efficient” model on the market, via Bedrock  —  On Tuesday, Amazon debuted a new generative AI model, Nova Sonic, capable of natively processing voice and generating natural-sounding speech. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: Google says all new Google TV devices in the US must now have a remote with a Free TV or Live TV button that opens its Freeplay library of 150+ FAST channels  —  Starting this month, new Google TV devices will have a big “Free TV” button on their remotes  — Google has confirmed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Internal memo: the US DOJ disbands the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit, established by Biden in 2021, as the agency is “not a digital assets regulator”  —  The U.S. Department of Justice notified staff on Monday evening that the agency was disbanding a unit dedicated to crypto-related investigations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: US officials say DOGE is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for anti-Trump talk; a source says DOGE is also using Signal  —  Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk’s DOGE team of technologists … Lees verder op Tech Meme