Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Samsung suspends an internal review into replacing Google with Bing as its mobile devices’ default search engine, citing business relations with Google  —  Samsung Electronics suspends internal review that contemplated changing its smartphones’ default search engine from Google to Microsoft’s Bing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK sentences Tejay Fletcher, the mastermind behind phone number spoofing service iSpoof, which scammed victims out of ~£100M, to over 13 years in prison  —  The mastermind behind a global “spoofing shop” that scammed victims out of as much as £100 million ($124 million) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: top shareholder SoftBank demanded compensation from Revolut after UK regulators told the startup to simplify its ownership to obtain a banking license  —  Minister to meet payment group’s bosses amid fears UK’s biggest tech group will leave the country Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apollo Global Management and Fortress Investment Group are each investing ~$50M in competing groups that aim to restart Celsius under new management  —  Investors that buy and turn around downtrodden companies have largely shunned crypto  —  Two Wall Street heavyweights are locked … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A look at the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles; LinkedIn’s transparency report says the company blocked 58M+ accounts in H2 2022, up from 22M in H1  —  On the internet, nobody knows you bought a dog  —  William Grace-Hunter doesn’t exist, though this may not be immediately obvious from his LinkedIn profile. Lees verder op Tech Meme