Tech Meme

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: A UK class action lawsuit against Vodafone, EE, Three UK, and O2, filed last week, accuses them of overcharging ~4.8M customers over 16 years and seeks £3.3B  —  Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 are accused of levying ‘loyalty penalties’ on customers  —  The biggest UK mobile phone operators … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The UK’s CMA is considering whether Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership should be called in for a merger probe, and asks for comments from interested parties  —  The UK’s antitrust watchdog is considering whether Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI Inc.’s partnership should be called in for a merger probe. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: A US federal judge rules Binance founder Changpeng Zhao cannot return to the UAE before his sentencing, set for February 2024, after his release on a $175M bond  —  Zhao pleaded guilty to a federal charge last month.  —  Register Now  —  Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Micron strikes a labor deal to hire 3,700 union workers for its $15B chip plant in Boise, Idaho, potentially giving the company an edge for federal chip funds  —  – Chipmaker to hire 3,700 construction workers only from unions  — Commerce Department prefers unionized sites for Chips funds Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Sources: in a first, Apple is working with China’s BYD to move new iPad product development to Vietnam, with test production set to begin around early 2024  —  China’s BYD helps American giant with shift to alternative tech hubs  —  Vietnam is emerging as an increasingly important production hub … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: Tata plans to build one of India’s largest iPhone plants, employing 50,000 workers within two years, and expects operations to begin in 12-18 months  —  – New plant would speed up Apple’s diversification beyond China  — Tata wants more Apple business after buying one iPhone factory Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: A look at Meta’s technical issues when developing E2EE for Messenger, including creating an encrypted storage protocol and re-architecting chat features  —  Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at Alibaba’s decline since China halted Ant’s IPO in 2020, losing its online shopping dominance to rival PDD last week, and roadblocks in revival plans  —  The Chinese e-commerce giant lost its lead—even in online shopping  —  SINGAPORE—Chinese internet titan Alibaba Group Holding once seemed invincible. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 plans to cut ties with Chinese hardware suppliers in favor of US counterparts, saying “we cannot work with both sides”  —  Abu Dhabi-backed G42 says it ‘cannot work with both sides’ and retain access to American-made AI chips Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple and its suppliers aim to make 50M+ iPhones annually in India in the next 2-3 years, and a quarter of global iPhones by the end of the decade  —  Supplier Foxconn plans to build more factories and give India a production role once limited mostly to China Lees verder op Tech Meme