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Days before TikTok briefly went dark, Instagram and Facebook made design tweaks, released new features, and ran ads promoting its apps as TikTok alternatives (Louise Matsakis/Wired) 22-01-2025

Louise Matsakis / Wired: Days before TikTok briefly went dark, Instagram and Facebook made design tweaks, released new features, and ran ads promoting its apps as TikTok alternatives  —  In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting its platforms as a comparable alternative. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft to buy 3.5M carbon credits, estimated to be worth about $200M, from Re.green over 25 years to restore parts of Brazil's Amazon and Atlantic forests (Kenza Bryan/Financial Times) 22-01-2025

Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: Microsoft to buy 3.5M carbon credits, estimated to be worth about $200M, from Re.green over 25 years to restore parts of Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic forests  —  Tech giant acquires carbon credits worth around $200mn, as energy usage surges due to generative artificial intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme

Best Smart Scale for 2025 22-01-2025

Consistently tracking your weight is the best thing to do on a fitness journey. Keep a tab on it with the best smart scales tested and reviewed by CNET health experts.Lees verder op Cnet

An internal probe into SoftBank-backed eFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, finds the agritech company allegedly faked most of its 2024 sales (Bloomberg) 22-01-2025

Bloomberg: An internal probe into SoftBank-backed eFishery, one of Indonesia’s most prominent startups, finds the agritech company allegedly faked most of its 2024 sales  —  – EFishery board investigating startup’s sales, profit numbers  — Indonesian firm has raised hundreds of millions of dollars Lees verder op Tech Meme

DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633 (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia) 22-01-2025

Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia: DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633  —  SINGAPORE — Southeast Asia’s startup funding in 2024 dropped for the third consecutive year, falling to a fifth of the peak it recorded in 2021 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Google is investing over $1B more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B funding round from Lightspeed and other VCs at a ~$60B valuation (Financial Times) 22-01-2025

Financial Times: Sources: Google is investing over $1B more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B funding round from Lightspeed and other VCs at a ~$60B valuation  —  Artificial intelligence group closes in on $60bn valuation  —  Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1bn into OpenAI rival Anthropic … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Trump administration removed all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in CISA and CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon (Becky Bracken/Dark Reading) 22-01-2025

Becky Bracken / Dark Reading: The Trump administration removed all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in CISA and CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon  —  In a letter sent today, the acting DHS secretary terminated membership to all advisory boards, including the Cyber Safety Review Board … Lees verder op Tech Meme