Simon Sharwood / The Register: PE firm EQT plans to take the German software company SUSE private at €16/share, below the €30 price of its 2021 IPO but above Thursday’s closing price of €9.6  —  Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO  —  Linux-loving software house SUSE … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature in the next few weeks, letting streamers block banned users from watching streams  —  Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company’s annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform Lees verder op Tech Meme