Roland Kelts / Rest of World: After decades of slumber, Japan’s tech industry, which has produced just 10 unicorns, finally shows some signs of life as its startups raised ~$6.4B in 2022  —  After decades of slumber, the country that brought us bullet trains and Nintendo has mustered some momentum. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$4.5B and ~$834M net income, both above analyst estimates, driven by its ad and cloud businesses  —  Baidu Inc.’s revenue rose a stronger-than-expected 10% after its advertising and cloud businesses benefited from China’s post-pandemic reopening. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: An interview with Kevin Systrom on Artifact’s new writer features, serving writers as a key to the news app’s growth, matching consumers with writers, and more  —  Artifact aims to unlock new, cross-platform audience relationships for people who write for a living Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: WhatsApp debuts Chat Lock, letting users put chats in a password/biometrics-protected folder and get notifications that don’t show the sender or message content  —  WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private. Lees verder op Tech Meme