Jay Newman / Financial Times: Apple’s investors should be worried that China controls the company’s factories, workforce, and local market access, all of which could be quickly taken away  —  What happens when the SEC, auditors and investors wake up?  —  Jay Newman was a senior portfolio manager at Elliott Management. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Thrasio, Razor, Perch, and other Amazon “aggregators” that raised $16B in mostly debt are struggling under rising rates, higher costs, and cooling online demand  —  During the pandemic, Wall Street banks and private equity firms invested billions of dollars in startups rolling … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: TikTok announces Pulse Premiere, which lets select publishers, such as Condé Nast, BuzzFeed, and NBC, sell ads alongside their posts and keep 50% of the revenue  —  New product will let publishers sell ads alongside their posts and take home half the revenue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Mozilla acquires NYC-based Fakespot, which helps users identify fake or unreliable reviews, and plans to introduce Fakespot functionality to Firefox over time  —  Mozilla announced today that it has acquired Fakespot, a startup that offers a website and browser extension that helps users identify fake or unreliable reviews. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Diana Li / Bloomberg: Airbnb announces Airbnb Rooms, a new category for individual rooms, and 50+ features and upgrades to improve price transparency, checkout procedures, and more  —  Airbnb Inc. is revamping the home-rental platform in an effort to ease mounting tensions between guests and hosts ahead of what it expects to be a busy summer travel season. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: TSMC is in talks to spend between €7B and €10B to build a chip plant in Saxony, subsidized by Germany and in partnership with NXP, Bosch, and Infineon  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is in talks with partners to spend as much as €10 billion ($11 billion) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok opens its revamped Creativity Program Beta creator fund to all US-based creators over 18 with over 10K followers and over 100K views in the past 30 days  —  TikTok announced today that it’s opening up its revamped creator fund, called the “Creativity Program Beta,” to all eligible creators in the United States. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Conger / New York Times: Jack Dorsey has posted an average of 59 times per day on Nostr since January 31, 2023, often talking about crypto and open source while criticizing Elon Musk  —  The Twitter co-founder has posted prolifically on two new social networks, Nostr and Bluesky, which he also backed financially. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: TikTok announces Pulse Premiere, which lets select publishers such as Condé Nast, BuzzFeed, and NBC sell ads alongside their posts and keep 50% of the revenue  —  New product will let publishers sell ads alongside their posts and take home half the revenue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Pando, which develops supply chain management software, raised a $30M Series B led by Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures, bringing its total funding to $45M  —  Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando, a startup developing fulfillment management technologies … Lees verder op Tech Meme