Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Apple stock jumped 54% in 2023 but underperformed tech peers after Apple suffered four straight quarters of declining revenue, its longest such slide since 2001  —  – In 2023, Apple suffered its longest revenue slide in 22 years, reporting four straight quarters of declining sales. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: Sources: OpenAI held talks with major news publishers including Gannett, News Corp, and IAC on the price and terms of licensing their content  —  Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Scheer / Reuters: IVC: Israeli startups raised ~$1.5B in Q4 2023, down 15% QoQ, despite increased foreign investor participation, and ~$7B in all of 2023, vs. nearly $16B in 2022  —  Israeli high tech firms raised $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, preliminary data showed on Thursday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: A Beijing court fined Alibaba ~$141M in a lawsuit brought by JD.com alleging Alibaba’s Tmall adopted monopolistic practices known as “choosing one from two”  —  Chinese online retailer JD.com (9618.HK) said on Friday that it won a lawsuit against rival Alibaba (9988.HK) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: JD.com says a Beijing court fined Alibaba ~$141M after finding that Alibaba’s Tmall adopted monopolistic practices known as “choosing one from two”  —  Chinese online retailer JD.com (9618.HK) said on Friday that it won a lawsuit against rival Alibaba (9988.HK) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Press Information Bureau: Financial Intelligence Unit India (FIU IND) issues compliance Show Cause Notices to nine offshore Virtual Digital Assets Service Providers (VDA SPs)  —  FIU IND writes to Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to block URLs of the nine entities operating illegally without complying with the provisions of PML Act in India Lees verder op Tech Meme

Edward White / Financial Times: Huawei says its full-year sales for 2023 would be more than $99B, up 9% YoY but down 20% from 2020 peak; Chairman Ken Hu says “we’re pretty much back on track”  —  Sanctions-hit telecoms group records highest revenues in three years but still below 2020 levels Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Q&A with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod on selling the startup to Match Group, AI’s potential, making the app less addictive, expanding to Europe, and more  —  The founder of Hinge says that capturing as much ‘signal’ as possible from users is the key to successful matches Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Margrethe Vestager says AI Act will “not harm innovation and research, but actually enhance it” as it “creates predictability and legal certainty in the market”  —  Margrethe Vestager argues landmark legislation will give ‘legal certainty’ to tech groups building AI models Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amrita Khalid / The Verge: LG debuts new Gram and Gram Pro laptops ahead of CES 2024; the processors in the Pro lineup include Intel’s AI Boost NPU hardware for on-device AI tasks  —  If you’re in the market for OLED displays and better graphics, take a look at the 2024 LG Gram Pro lineup. Lees verder op Tech Meme