Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Google, Meta, Qualcomm, and seven other tech companies form the Coalition for Open Digital Ecosystems, aiming to promote open digital ecosystems in the EU  —  Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and seven other tech companies on Wednesday teamed up to push … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times: Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh are promoting AI-generated disinformation created with cheap tools ahead of elections in January 2024  —  Ahead of South Asian nation going to the polls in January, AI-generated disinformation has become a growing problem Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: Foxconn plans to invest at least $1B more, on top of the $1.6B allocated earlier, in to its 300-acre Bengaluru plant to make Apple devices  —  – World’s largest iPhone maker setting aside more money for site  — Apple’s partners are shifting capacity away from China Lees verder op Tech Meme

Miguel Cordon / Tech in Asia: Line Next, a Line Corporation unit that focuses on NFTs and currently has 5.5M users globally, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel-backed Crescendo Equity Partners  —  Line Next Corporation, a Line unit that focuses on the NFT ecosystem, raised a US$140 million round from a consortium led … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: Foxconn plans to invest at least $1B more, on top of $1.6B it allocated earlier, in its 300-acre Bengaluru plant to make Apple devices  —  – World’s largest iPhone maker setting aside more money for site  — Apple’s partners are shifting capacity away from China Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / The Verge: A look at Twitter’s culture prior to Elon Musk’s acquisition, when it focused on improving the health of online conversations, rather than growth at all costs  —  the early ’10s, Twitter was at the height of its power.  The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Paris-based Pivot, which sells spend management and procurement software, raised a $21.6M Series A, after raising a $5.3M pre-seed round in April 2023  —  French startup Pivot is an interesting startup story as it is scaling at a rapid pace even though startup investments are down in Europe. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / The Verge: A look at Twitter’s culture prior to Elon Musk’s acquisition, when it focused on improving the health of online conversations, rather than growth at all costs  —  the early ’10s, Twitter was at the height of its power.  The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: Ampere: Disney+ and Hulu combined would have more popular titles in the US than any other service and its catalog size would rank second only to Prime Video  —  The streamers’ merged content catalog size would rank second only to Amazon Prime Video and ahead of Netflix, according to Ampere Analytics. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: As Taiwan’s government rejects suggestions that the chip industry was crowding out other sectors, a look at TSMC’s outsized economic role ahead of the elections  —  Voters question role and influence of world’s biggest chipmaker, the crown jewel of country’s economy Lees verder op Tech Meme