Justin Garrison / Justin Garrison: An AWS developer claims Amazon is “silently sacking” staff by pushing them to take a different role that they would quit later, to avoid the need for severance  —  Amazon has a stock problem.  It’s not only Amazon, but they have more to lose.  If you’re a customer, that’s going to be bad for your business too. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Counterpoint: ~16M foldable phones were sold in 2023, just 1.3% of all 1.2B smartphones, as foldables start to gain traction in markets like the US and China  —  Samsung, Motorola and Huawei continue to invest in high-priced flip devices despite weak sales  —  Every large smartphone maker … Lees verder op Tech Meme

NBC News: California laws leave driverless vehicles immune from traffic tickets, while Texas and Arizona rewrote traffic laws to issue tickets to AV owners for violations  —  City streets are the testing ground for hundreds of self-driving cars in California, despite safety concerns and gray areas surrounding traffic laws. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Filing: Baidu’s $3.6B deal to acquire Joyy’s Chinese livestreaming business YY Live, announced in November 2020, expires as China didn’t approve by December 31  —  – Tech industry’s focus has turned to generative AI now … The Beijing-based company said its $3.6 billion deal for Joyy’s YY Live … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Keza MacDonald / The Guardian: A profile of Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto, who joined Nintendo in 1977 and says he has no plans to retire as representative director at the company  —  Few people have influenced global pop culture as much as the creator of Mario and Zelda, widely considered the father of modern gaming. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Acton / Financial Times: A look at the future of Apple’s $85B/year services business, as the company faces key US court cases in 2024 and prepares to allow iOS app sideloading in the EU  —  Landmark EU regulation and crucial US court cases due in 2024 will test the tech company  —  Apple faces a legal reckoning in 2024 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: ASML canceled shipments of some machines to China at the request of the US, weeks before export bans on the chipmaking equipment came into effect  —  – ASML canceled shipments of a liminted number of devices  — Biden is cracking down on Beijing’s semiconductor industry Lees verder op Tech Meme