Joshua Franklin / Financial Times: Plaid hires former Expedia Chief Financial Officer Eric Hart as its first CFO, a milestone in its plans for a US IPO after a failed $5.3B sale to Visa in 2021  —  Start-up appoints former Expedia CFO two years after failed sale to Visa  —  US financial technology start-up Plaid has hired … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: PitchBook: global AI startup funding rose 27% YoY to $17.9B in Q3 2023, one of the VC world’s lone bright spots as overall startup funding fell 31% YoY to $73B  —  Multibillion-dollar investments in artificial intelligence startups have become almost commonplace in Silicon Valley … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao meets Tim Cook and says China welcomes Apple for “win-win development” and to share the “dividends of the Chinese market”  —  – New iPhone off to a weak start in China, initial data show  — China banned use of iPhone in some government, state firms Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Google says that government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting a since-patched zero-day in WinRAR, discovered by Group-IB in August 2023  —  Google security researchers say they have found evidence that government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Chrome’s address bar with improved autocomplete, suggestions for misspelled URL names, search within bookmark folders, and more  —  Google is rolling out a series of updates to the address bar (or Omnibox) in Chrome that improves the accuracy of autocomplete across the desktop and mobile browser. Lees verder op Tech Meme