Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services Marketplace for freelancers, up 48% in the last year; it launched the marketplace in 2021  —  More than 100,000 people have been laid off in the technology industry alone this year, and — either by circumstance or choice … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Conor Hale / Fierce Biotech: Glooko, whose diabetes management app is used by more than 4.4M patients and 10K clinics globally, raised a $100M Series F led by Georgian  —  Glooko Diabetes Data venture capital (VC)  —  The digital diabetes developer Glooko has collected $100 million and a new CEO to help boost the trajectory of its data management platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tobias Mann / The Register: AMD launches the 5th Gen Epyc Turin data center chips, with up to 192 cores and clock speeds up to 5GHz, boasting double-digit gains in instructions per clock  —  Just not on the same chip, of course  —  Intel’s 128-core Granite Rapids Xeons are barely two weeks old and AMD has already fired … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox App on Android starting in November, after a judge ordered Google to open up Play Store  —  Microsoft is planning to update its Xbox mobile app on Android to allow US users to purchase and then play Xbox games on their mobile devices next month. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Decrypt: Uniswap Labs unveils Unichain, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain built on Optimism tech, to enable faster, cheaper transactions and better liquidity across chains  —  Uniswap will launch an Ethereum layer-2 network called Unichain in an effort to cut fees, boost liquidity, and more. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lara O’Reilly / Business Insider: PayPal formally launches PayPal Ads, which looks to help US marketers tap into data about transactions across PayPal’s platforms, including Venmo and Honey  —  – PayPal is set to launch an ads business, starting in the US.  — The company intends to offer ads across its own properties, as well as retailers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Darktrace co-founder Poppy Gustafsson, who left last month ahead of the £4.3B takeover of the cybersecurity group, is appointed as the UK’s investment minister  —  Appointment comes ahead of international investment summit  —  Darktrace co-founder Poppy Gustafsson has been appointed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Sources detail Meta’s work on a consumer version of Orion, which could be built within two years, plans to bring Orion wristband tech to its other devices, more  —  When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the occasion to show the world his vision … Lees verder op Tech Meme

BBC: The US and UK announce a joint agreement aimed at keeping children safer online, including the setting up of an online safety working group to share expertise  —  The argument over smartphones in schools has been “won”, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Kubinec / Blockworks: Stripe reintegrates crypto payments in the US, letting users pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, after disabling the feature in 2018  —  Customers can pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, while US-based merchants are paid in dollars Lees verder op Tech Meme