Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: The UK CMA reopens its consultation on Microsoft’s Activision deal, an unusual move that could lead to a reversal of the decision to block the deal  —  CMA invites responses to tech giant’s new arguments in rare move that could pave way for $75bn takeover to close Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Rapyd, which offers payment APIs, plans to acquire Prosus’ payments unit PayU for $610M, excluding its operations in India, Turkey, and Southeast Asia  —  Rapyd, the fintech-as-a-service startup that provides APIs to enable payments, card issuing, digital wallet and other financial services … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Binance announces an exchange in Japan that complies with local rules and offers 34 tokens, open for applications in mid-August before a December 1 launch  —  – Local platform is intended to fully comply with Japanese rules  — Binance facing regulatory pressure in other parts of the world Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: Nvidia asks some cloud provider startups for their customers’ names; the company also ensures some upstart cloud providers get early new chip shipments  —  Nvidia plays favorites with its newest, much-sought-after chips for artificial intelligence, steering them to small cloud providers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: A German data watchdog has been investigating Worldcoin since November 2022 due to concerns over the project processing “sensitive data at a very large scale”  —  A German data watchdog has been investigating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project since late last year due … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sources: Nintendo plans to release a new console in H2 2024, with a portable mode, LCD display, and a cartridge slot; key partners already have development kits  —  Development kits for Nintendo’s next console are now with key partner studios, with launch planned for next year, sources have told VGC. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: The BBC launches social.bbc, an “experimental” Mastodon server with posts from a handful of BBC accounts, and plans to try out the server for six months  —  The BBC has launched its own “experimental” Mastodon server, marking one of the first major news outlets to establish an instance on the Twitter alternative. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Economic Times: A regulatory filing shows that Fidelity has halved its valuation of Indian business messaging startup Gupshup to $697M, down from $1.4B in July 2021  —  Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund’s stake in the San Francisco-headquartered startup was valued at nearly $11.09 million as of April 30, 2023, which it successively marked down. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christian Davies / Financial Times: A look at South Korea’s position in the tech “cold war”, as the country pivots away from China’s economy and prepares to comply with the US-led China chip ban  —  Washington is courting chipmakers and battery manufacturers with large subsidies but demanding they loosen ties with their other major market Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe McDonald / Associated Press: China restricts civilian drone exports, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine and concern about military use; DJI pulled out of Russia and Ukraine in April 2022  —  China imposed restrictions Monday on exports of long-range civilian drones, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine and concern that drones might be converted to military use. Lees verder op Tech Meme