Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X plans to let paid users hide their Likes from other users and “from the X APIs”, reversing a longstanding feature; individual Likes will appear on posts  —  Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is now rolling out a feature for paid users to let them hide their likes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Stockholm-based Klarna reports H1 2023 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$963M and a ~$185M adjusted loss, down from a ~$570M loss in H1 2022, as the company cuts costs  —  – Revenue rose 15% in the first half of the year, Klarna says  — Swedish buy-now-pay-later firm achieves a profitable month Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bryce Elder / Financial Times: Lessons from the rapid grocery delivery boom: $10B+ of VC money, used for ads and promos, created the market from nothing, app downloads have cratered, and more  —  The failure and folly behind a $10bn bribe to not go to the shops  —  The inflation adjusted price for delivering you a packet … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 across Europe from October 1, instead offering Teams to enterprise for €24 per year  —  – Company offers to unbundle Teams from other business software  — EU investigating if Microsoft’s bundling broke antitrust law Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: A monthslong investigation exposes the secrets of Russian ransomware gang Trickbot, which thrived despite global disruption efforts, and a key member’s identity  —  A WIRED investigation into a cache of documents posted by an unknown figure lays bare the Trickbot ransomware gang’s secrets, including the identity of a central member. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg: Elon Musk says X users will be able to make video and audio calls without a phone number, but offers no timeframe, as X “is the effective global address book”  —  Users of X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, will be able to make video and audio calls through … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Sources: Apple plans to eliminate social media support adviser roles across X, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later in 2023  —  Apple is planning to eliminate social media support advisor roles across Twitter, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: X updates its privacy policy to include new biometric data, which the company plans to collect for safety and security, along with data on jobs and education  —  – In policy shift, X will use the data for safety, security  — Employment, education history will be used to recommend jobs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta lets users submit requests to access, alter, or delete some of their third-party information that the company uses for generative AI training  —  – Meta updated its help resource center with a form that gives users some control over what personal data is used to train generative artificial intelligence models. Lees verder op Tech Meme