Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: ChatGPT was the most downloaded app globally in March, excluding games, with 46M downloads across App Store and Google Play, its biggest month ever  —  ChatGPT became the world’s most downloaded app in March, excluding games, topping the usual contenders for the No. 1 spot, Instagram and TikTok. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Asia’s startup funding fell 40% YoY to ~$13B in Q1 2025, the lowest funding for a quarter since $12.3B in Q4 2014; AI startup funding fell 50% YoY to just $1.8B  —  While OpenAI’s massive $40 billion funding boosted global and North America’s funding totals, Asia was not so lucky. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: Architect Partners: Q1 2025 was a record quarter for crypto M&A with 61 deals and $2.2B in total deal value, including Kraken’s $1.5B acquisition of NinjaTrader  —  A false dawn for M&A?  —  Is the crypto M&A boom for real?  We asked Casper Johansen, partner at The Spartan Group, a digital assets advisory firm. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: ByteDance, which spent an estimated $11B in 2024 on infrastructure for AI, is using data from ~1B users of its apps as the linchpin of its growing AI business  —  A set of popular apps helped China’s ByteDance develop a key component of advanced artificial intelligence: information on how a billion people use the internet. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate O’Keeffe / Bloomberg: US investigators are probing whether the China ties of TP-Link Systems Inc., the US-based business of Wi-Fi router giant TP-Link, pose an “unacceptable risk”  —  – TP-Link Systems still has sizable China presence, records show  — Founder says he’s ‘chosen the US’ in company’s restructuring Lees verder op Tech Meme