Financial Times: Filing: Tiger Global raised just $2B+ for a fund targeting $6B after eight months; US venture firms raised nearly $12B in Q1, down 73% YoY  —  Group has raised just over $2bn for a vehicle targeting $6bn amid scepticism over tech valuations  —  Tiger Global is falling short in its latest attempt … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: France probes Binance over alleged illegal digital asset services and poor money laundering checks; Binance exits the Netherlands after failing to get a license  —  Binance is suspected of illegally providing digital asset services to local customers, and implementing poor money laundering checks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: NY AG’s documents: Tether once counted Chinese companies’ securities among its reserves; in July 2022, Tether claimed not to be holding Chinese commercial paper  —  Tether Holdings Ltd. once counted securities issued by Chinese companies among the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Digital assets platform Bakkt delists Solana, Polygon, and Cardano, taking proactive action until there is US regulatory clarity on offering coins “compliantly”  —  Just over two months after completing a $155 million acquisition for the trading infrastructure provider Apex Crypto … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Venkatesh Gorantla / MySmartPrice: Alleged official renders of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 show the clamshell-style foldable could have a 3.4 outer display, up from its predecessors’ 1.9 screen  —  The newly revealed Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 design render shows that the clamshell-style foldable phone is certainly getting a significant upgrade. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Lyngaas / CNN: Oregon and Louisiana warn that the MOVEit hackers may have stolen the SSNs and driver’s license numbers of 3.5M Oregonians and 3M+ Louisianians from state DMVs  —  Millions of people in Louisiana and Oregon have had their data compromised in the sprawling cyberattack that has also hit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Meta plans to lower the minimum age for Quest headsets from 13 to 10, with under-13s’ profiles and avatars set to private by default; Horizon Worlds remains 13+  —  Government scrutiny of how tech companies handle their underage users is continuing to heat up. Lees verder op Tech Meme