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A skilled workers shortage is impeding Micron's plan to invest $100B to build a chip manufacturing campus in Syracuse, New York, and hire 9K employees there (Wall Street Journal) 17-03-2023

Wall Street Journal: A skilled workers shortage is impeding Micron’s plan to invest $100B to build a chip manufacturing campus in Syracuse, New York, and hire 9K employees there  —  Micron plans to hire 9,000 employees at a new suburban Syracuse campus amid shortage of skilled workers Lees verder op Tech Meme

SVB Financial files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the SDNY's Bankruptcy Court and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity” (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) 17-03-2023

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: SVB Financial files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the SDNY’s Bankruptcy Court and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity”  —  One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank and other subsidiaries … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Around 20 investors and founders detail how some solo investors and small VC firms helped startups during the SVB crisis while many big VC firms disappointed (Alex Konrad/Forbes) 17-03-2023

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

The FTC finalized a $245M fine for Epic Games on March 14 over tricking users into making unintended Fortnite purchases and bans Epic from using dark patterns (Andy Brown/NME) 17-03-2023

Andy Brown / NME: The FTC finalized a $245M fine for Epic Games on March 14 over tricking users into making unintended Fortnite purchases and bans 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

Sources: some lawmakers and tech executives like Peter Thiel are mobilizing against China's involvement in US tech, ahead of the TikTok CEO's US House testimony (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal) 17-03-2023

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: Sources: some lawmakers and tech executives like Peter Thiel are mobilizing against China’s involvement in US tech, ahead of the TikTok CEO’s US House testimony  —  Group to meet ahead of TikTok’s testimony before Congress  —  A group of Silicon Valley executives, including investor Peter Thiel … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Source: TikTok is paying dozens of creators to visit DC next week and lobby lawmakers against a forced sale, ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony on March 23 (Hailey Fuchs/Politico) 17-03-2023

Hailey Fuchs / Politico: Source: TikTok is paying dozens of creators to visit DC next week and lobby lawmakers against a forced sale, ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony on March 23  —  The influential social media app TikTok is flooding the nation’s capital with influencers next week as part of an 11th hour lobbying blitz … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The FCC is requiring carriers to block SMS messages from “invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers”, targeting the increasing scam robotexts sent to consumers (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica) 17-03-2023

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: The FCC is requiring carriers to block SMS messages from “invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers”, targeting the increasing scam robotexts sent to consumers  —  First robotext rule requires blocking of texts from invalid and unused numbers.  —  The Federal Communications … Lees verder op Tech Meme