Vish Gain / Silicon Republic: A report by Ireland’s DPC: 17 large inquiries concluded in 2022, resulting in €1B+ fines; 10K+ cases concluded in 2022, including 246 cross-border complaints  —  Helen Dixon said the DPC issued two-thirds of fines issued across Europe last year on foot of ‘detailed and comprehensive investigations’. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Investor document: Stripe seeks to raise ~$2.3B to cover Q1 tax withholdings and plans to withhold an additional $500M in 2023 and $700M in 2024  —  Stripe Inc., one of the world’s most valuable startups, told investors it plans to use money it receives in its latest round of fundraising to help cover a roughly $3.5 billion tax bill. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: In 2023, almost all TV streaming boxes suck, turning into ever-cheaper, ad-supported commodity items and failing to surpass smart TVs, themselves hardly great  —  There are no good streaming boxes, and I blame everybody. … Streaming boxes had so much potential. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Salesforce announces Einstein GPT, bringing OpenAI-based generative AI to Customer 360, Slack, Tableau, and its other products using data from its Data Cloud  —  – Salesforce clients will be able to exchange Slack messages with a ChatGPT chatbot that can show data from Salesforce. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: French expense management software maker N2F raised €24M from PSG Equity, and says it processes 1M+ expense reports a month for 10K+ businesses in 86+ countries  —  According to the startup, they’re processing over one million expense reports per month for more than 10,000 businesses in over 86 countries. Lees verder op Tech Meme