Mary Jo Foley / Directions on Microsoft: Microsoft must take security seriously again by being transparent about breaches and no longer charging its subscribers extra for must-have security features  —  Microsoft charges extra for many core security and compliance features.  What can customers do to try to minimize risk and save money? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Matsuda / Sifted: Paris-based Payflows, whose automated financial management SaaS could be deployed on top of existing ERP systems, raised a €25M Series A led by Balderton  —  The funding round is the latest sign that fintech investors are continuing to focus on the B2B segment Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: China approves US listing of self-driving startup Pony.ai, which plans to sell up to 98M shares and list on Nasdaq or NYSE, signaling an ease on the crackdown  —  – Pony.ai plans to sell some 98 million shares on Nasdaq or NYSE  — Chinese tech IPOs in the US dwindled after crackdown in 2021 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At: Emails released as part of US v. Google show how Google’s finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money  —  This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.  —  The story begins on February 5th 2019 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Pacheco / Bloomberg: Mobvoi, a Google-backed Chinese smartwatch and AI company, fell as much as 22% in the first day of trading, after raising $41M in its Hong Kong IPO  —  – Mobvoi drops as much as 22% in first day of trading after IPO  — It’s the city’s third stock this week to drop in opening day Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Paris-based FlexAI, which is developing an on-demand cloud service for AI training, emerges from stealth with a $30M in seed funding  —  Nvidia, Apple, Tesla and Intel are on CEO Brijesh Tripathi’s resume  —  A French startup has raised a hefty seed investment to “rearchitect compute infrastructure” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Matsuda / Sifted: Paris-based Payflows, whose automated financial management SaaS could be deployed on top of existing ERP systems, raised a €25M Series A led by Balderton  —  The funding round is the latest sign that fintech investors are continuing to focus on the B2B segment Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: SenseTime’s stock rises 30%+ after the company unveiled the latest version of its SenseNova AI model; SenseTime’s stock is down 80%+ since its 2021 HK IPO  —  – US-blacklisted firm unveils fifth version of its AI platform  — The company is one of many racing to develop generative AI Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Huawei unveils Qiankun, a new business unit focused on providing self-driving systems, marking the company’s latest push to become a major EV industry player  —  Chinese tech company Huawei (HWT.UL) unveiled on Wednesday a new software brand for intelligent driving, marking its latest push … Lees verder op Tech Meme