Manish Singh / TechCrunch: AllianceBernstein: Netflix has ~6.5M subs in India, Prime Video has 20M, Disney+ Hotstar has 40M+; Netflix’s slow growth is due to having just 12% local content  —  Netflix has “not succeeded” in scaling up its business in India despite the global streaming giant consistently lowering … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A look at SoftBank-owned PayPay, which has 60M+ users, two-thirds QR-code payment market share in Japan, and could be next in the conglomerate’s IPO pipeline  —  – Firm chases gross merchant value growth of over 30% this year  — PayPay seen to be next in SoftBank’s arsenal of possible IPOs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The US adds 42 companies from China and seven from Finland, Germany, India, Turkey, the UAE, and the UK to an export control list over supporting Russia’s army  —  The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added 42 Chinese companies to a government export control list over their support … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Alexa has been claiming that the US 2020 presidential election was stolen, citing unvetted Rumble and Substack sources; Amazon says the errors have been fixed  —  The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: Y Combinator hires Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for publicly criticizing Google, to lead public policy, as the accelerator embraces politics  —  Best known for his relentless public criticism of Google as a monopoly, longtime Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe has a new gig … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: The UK FCA plans to name crypto companies violating its financial promotions rules, widened on October 8 to include cryptoasset providers regardless of location  —  – Watchdog will add firms to warning list starting on Sunday  —  The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority will move fast to name … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Patrizio / Ars Technica: A history of Digital Equipment Corporation, which was founded in 1957 to build small digital modules, pioneered minicomputers, and Compaq acquired in 1998  —  One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s.  —  Even though very few of the early players … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jo Craven McGinty / Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Dr. Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, on generative AI in medicine, privacy risks, responsible deployment, and more  —  The dean of Stanford University’s medical school thinks artificial intelligence will transform the medicines you take, the care you get and the training of doctors Lees verder op Tech Meme