Tech Meme

Sylvia Varnham O’Regan / The Information: Amazon reaches a deal with Snap that lets users buy Amazon products directly from ads on Snapchat, resembling Amazon’s deal with Meta announced on November 9  —  Amazon has reached a deal with Snap that will let people buy Amazon products directly from ads on the Snapchat app, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: Internal conversations reveal how Etsy struggled to develop moderation policies and manage employees’ feelings around the Israel-Hamas war  —  The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares.  Some employees aren’t happy Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: London-based Fnality, which is developing a blockchain-based wholesale payment system, raised a £77.7M Series B led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas  —  – Other investors include Euroclear, Nomura, Wisdom Tree  —  Fnality International Ltd., which is developing a blockchain-based … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nathan Grayson / Aftermath: Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and cuts ~180 jobs, the unit’s second round of layoffs in 2023  —  Video game workers just can’t catch a break  —  Video game layoff season – an extension of what has basically at this point become … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber plans to test Uber Tasks, a TaskRabbit-like service that lets users hire people to complete household tasks, in Fort Myers and Edmonton in the coming weeks  —  – Firm to test ‘Uber Tasks’ in an effort to find new revenue  — Tasks include furniture assembly, laundry and lawn mowing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Truth Social lost $73M and took $3.7M in net sales since launching in early 2022, shows a filling from Trump Media & Technology Group’s SPAC merger partner DWAC  —  The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out the ability for users to delete their Threads profile without having to delete their Instagram account  —  Meta is rolling out a way for you to delete your Threads profile without having to delete your Instagram account, too.  You’ll be able to access the new feature … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Matousek / The Information: Internal Brex data: Q3 annualized net revenue hit $283M, up 1% QoQ, and the company is far from profitable, as the growth spurt after SVB’s collapse trails away  —  Almost no startup benefited more from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank than Brex, which saw a surge in deposits from young companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Molitch-Hou / 3DPrint: Divergent Technologies, which sells a digital industrial production system that uses 3D printing and AI-driven tools, raised a $230M Series D led by Hexagon AB  —  In a significant development for the world of additive manufacturing (AM), Divergent Technologies, known for its comprehensive … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: A look at OpenAI’s structure where a six-member non-profit board can decide if the company has achieved AGI, which would exclude Microsoft from some IP licenses  —  According to OpenAI, the six members of its nonprofit board of directors will determine when the company has “attained AGI” … Lees verder op Tech Meme