Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: HSBC rebrands SVB UK as HSBC Innovation Banking, adding US, Israel, and Hong Kong teams to offer banking services to startups, investors, and other tech clients  —  Acquired by HSBC in an emergency sale for just £1 in March as SVB was melting down, SVB UK is now getting a rebrand and expansion under its new owner. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: the Dutch government is working on legislation to bar Chinese students from university programs covering sensitive tech, including chips and defense  —  The Dutch government is working on legislation that will be used to bar Chinese students from university programs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Nasdaq plans to acquire financial software maker Adenza for $10.5B in cash and stock, giving Adenza owner Thoma Bravo a 14.9% stake in Nasdaq and a board seat  —  Nasdaq Inc. agreed to buy financial-software maker Adenza from its private equity owners in the exchange operator’s biggest-ever deal. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: As US-China geopolitical tensions rise, foreign investors sell stock in Bilibili, Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese tech companies and reduce startup funding  —  Geopolitical tension and poor economic recovery drive stock price falls and funding shortages Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: India investigates reports of a breach at a portal with the data of 1B+ COVID-19 vaccine recipients; Telegram removes a bot letting users pull individuals’ data  —  India’s government is investigating reports that a health ministry portal containing personal data from anyone in the country … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce renames its AI toolset to AI Cloud, plans to roll out new AI features in the summer, and doubles its generative AI fund announced in March to $500M  —  Salesforce Inc. is elevating new generative artificial intelligence features in its products and doubling its investment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Over 7,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest API changes, and Reddit experienced an outage for about an hour this morning  —  Reddit has been going through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site’s new API pricing terms. Lees verder op Tech Meme