Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Global venture funding rose 3% YoY to ~$314B in 2024; venture funding to US companies totaled $178B, out of which $90B was invested in Bay Area startups  —  Global venture funding in 2024 edged above 2023’s totals, with AI showing the biggest leap in amounts year to year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Global venture funding rose 3% YoY to ~$314B in 2024; venture funding to US companies totaled $178B, out of which $90B was invested in Bay Area startups  —  Global venture funding in 2024 edged above 2023’s totals, with AI showing the biggest leap in amounts year to year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Asus unveils the Zenbook A14, with a new base-model eight-core Snapdragon X processor, available mid-January starting at $1,100; a $900 variant debuts in March  —  Asus’ new featherweight laptop is aiming to be the latest Windows rival to the Apple MacBook Air. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Business Insider: Sources: Bluesky is finalizing a new round at a ~$700M valuation led by Bain Capital Ventures; it raised a $15M Series A in October 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023  —  – Bluesky, an alternative to X, saw a surge of users after Donald Trump was elected in November. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Global venture funding rose 3% YoY to ~$314B in 2024; venture funding to US companies totaled $178B, out of which $90B was invested in Bay Area startups  —  Global venture funding in 2024 edged above 2023’s totals, with AI showing the biggest leap in amounts year to year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: AWS says it plans to invest “at least” $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia, which is becoming a popular state for data centers in the US  —  On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, said that it plans to invest “at least” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: Indonesian e-commerce pioneer Bukalapak will stop sales of physical goods to focus on virtual goods like mobile credits, amid competition from Shopee and others  —  – Online retailer exits physical goods to focus on virtual ones  — Revamp comes as TikTok Shop gains traction in the country Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg demanded a review at Meta after his 2023 knee surgery post on Facebook initially got anemic attention; Meta downplays the significance  —  Meta follows in X’s footsteps by letting users fact-check each other with ‘Community Notes’  —  Social-media companies never wanted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s AI chips are improving faster than Moore’s Law, claiming that today’s Nvidia AI chips are 1,000x better than those made 10 years ago  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the performance of his company’s AI chips is advancing faster than historical rates set by Moore’s Law … Lees verder op Tech Meme