Alex Konrad / Forbes: Around 20 investors and founders say some individual investors and small firms actively helped startups during the SVB crisis while many big firms disappointed  —  Covering venture capital, cloud and startups  —  When founders scrambled to make payroll after the closure of SVB … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Brown / NME: FTC finalized a $245M fine for Epic Games on Tuesday over tricking users into making unintended purchases in Fortnite and banned Epic from using dark patterns  —  Epic Games faces over half a billion dollars in fines from the FTC  —  The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: New Zealand plans to ban TikTok on all devices with access to the country’s parliamentary network by the end of March 2023 because of cybersecurity concerns  —  New Zealand will ban TikTok on devices with access to the parliamentary network because of cybersecurity concerns, a government official said on Friday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

@zoeschiffer: Sources: Twitter has downranked accounts from its rivals like Instagram, Snap, and TikTok since December 2022, plus accounts like the US Department of Health’s  —  Little scoop from me today: Twitter has been down-ranking the corporate accounts of its competitors, including 19 official TikTok accounts, 3 Snap accounts, and 2 Instagram accounts. This means their tweets won’t show on the For You tab for the most part: https://www.platformer.news/ … Lees verder op Tech Meme