Tech Meme

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Court filing: VMware agrees to pay $102.5M to settle a securities fraud class action lawsuit that could apply to those who traded its stock from 2018 to 2020  —  Old accusations of securities fraud continue to dog VMware, with the virtualization juggernaut agreeing to pay $102.5 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: ASML reports Q3 order bookings down 53% QoQ to €2.6B, far below €5.39B est., and Q3 net income of €2.1B, in results apparently released early; ASML drops 15%+  —  – The chip gear maker’s orders missed estimates in third quarter  — ASML cut its guidance for next year on chip sector weakness Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Decagon, which offers enterprises AI-powered customer service agents, raised a $65M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, valuing it at $650M  —  Companies are pitting AI-powered customer service agents against one another.  Decagon’s CEO Jesse Zhang says his company’s AI software has won time and again. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V  —  Cats and dogs, living together!  —  In a rare public-facing display of cooperation between two of the industry’s fiercest rivals … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kathryn Lundstrom / Adweek: Amazon expands its suite of AI-powered ad tools to let US advertisers use generative AI to make audio ads, available now in beta, and unveils AI creative studio  —  The tech giant announced new products at its annual ad conference  —  Soon, you’ll hear more audio ads on Amazon’s properties that were created with generative AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: ASML reports Q3 order bookings down 53% QoQ to €2.6B, far below €5.39B est., and Q3 net income of €2.1B, in results apparently released early; ASML drops 15%+  —  – The chip gear maker’s orders missed estimates in third quarter  — ASML cut its guidance for next year on chip sector weakness Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Customer service AI startup Neuron7 raised a $44M Series B led by Smith Point Capital, and says it had 300% growth in ARR in 2023 and 65 full-time employees  —  Five-year-old AI customer service startup Neuron7 just closed an oversubscribed $44 million series B round led by Keith Block … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram enhances its profile sharing QR codes with a “profile card”, showing profile info on the front and, using a flip animation, a QR code on the back  —  Instagram is rolling out a new “profile card” feature that is essentially a digital business card for your profile. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: ASML reports Q3 order bookings down 53% QoQ to €2.6B, far below €5.39B est., and Q3 net income of €2.1B, in results apparently released early; ASML drops 15%+  —  – The chip gear maker’s orders missed estimates in third quarter  — ASML cut its guidance for next year on chip sector weakness Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Kan / PCMag: Chrome begins disabling uBlock Origin as part of Google’s plan to phase out Manifest V2 extensions; uBlock Origin has 39M+ downloads on the Chrome Web Store  —  The browser is doing so as part of Google’s plan to phase out older Manifest V2 extensions to bolster Chrome’s security. Lees verder op Tech Meme