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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 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News) 08-01-2025

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

Ex-Facebook director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content” (Bloomberg) 08-01-2025

Bloomberg: Ex-Facebook director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg’s team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they’re approaching content”  —  – Meta CEO accused fact checkers of bias and destroying trust  — Facebook and Instagram continue fact-checking outside US Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide” (Casey Newton/Platformer) 08-01-2025

Casey Newton / Platformer: Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta’s surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”  —  “I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer  —  I. The past Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content, denying Meta's claim (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times) 08-01-2025

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: Meta’s fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content, denying Meta’s claim  —  Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Docs: The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer Wikipedia editors who it says are “abusing their position” to publish antisemitic content (Arno Rosenfeld/The Forward) 08-01-2025

Arno Rosenfeld / The Forward: Docs: The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer Wikipedia editors who it says are “abusing their position” to publish antisemitic content  —  The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tencent repurchased 3.93M Hong Kong-listed shares, worth ~$193M, on January 7, its largest buyback since April 2006, following its addition to a US blacklist (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg) 08-01-2025

Charlotte Yang / Bloomberg: Tencent repurchased 3.93M Hong Kong-listed shares, worth ~$193M, on January 7, its largest buyback since April 2006, following its addition to a US blacklist  —  China’s most valuable company bought back 3.93 million Hong Kong-listed shares on Tuesday, the most since April 2006, Bloomberg-compiled data show. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The US NLRB says Google is a “joint employer” of ~50 Accenture Flex workers who joined the Alphabet Workers Union in 2023 and must bargain with their union (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters) 08-01-2025

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: The US NLRB says Google is a “joint employer” of ~50 Accenture Flex workers who joined the Alphabet Workers Union in 2023 and must bargain with their union  —  Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) is facing a second complaint from a U.S. labor board claiming that it is the employer … Lees verder op Tech Meme