Tech Meme

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over some allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier in 2023 regarding an alleged ~€870M in unpaid VAT  —  Italy’s Finance Police is seizing about €779 million ($835 million) from the home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. after it allegedly failed to pay some taxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$2.2B and profit down 19% YoY to ~$603M, both above est.; Switch sales in April to September rose 2.4% YoY to 6.84M  —  Nintendo reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Tuesday buoyed by the Super Mario movie and Zelda game. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cyrus Farivar / Forbes: Leaked audio: at an all-hands meeting, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said the company is pausing production of its fully autonomous van Origin, after safety concerns  —  Reeling from a month in which the California DMV yanked Cruise’s permits for its self-driving robotaxis and the company paused all operations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Sony plans to terminate X integration on the PS5 and PS4 starting on November 13, meaning users will not be able to post and view content on X from the consoles  —  Sony is terminating its X (formerly Twitter) integrations for PS5 and PS4, meaning you soon won’t be able to post screenshots and clips to X from those consoles. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over some allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier in 2023 regarding an alleged ~€870M in unpaid VAT  —  Italy’s Finance Police is seizing about €779 million ($835 million) from the home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. after it allegedly failed to pay some taxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A look at the hurdles tech startups like Shield AI, which makes autonomous drones, face in competing for Pentagon funding against more entrenched weapons makers  —  Shield AI, a tech start-up, already has a drone run by artificial intelligence being used by the Israeli military. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over some allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier in 2023 regarding an alleged ~€870M in unpaid VAT  —  Italy’s Finance Police is seizing about €779 million ($835 million) from the home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. after it allegedly failed to pay some taxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Chinese authorities took away game-streaming site DouYu’s founder Chen Shaojie in October 2023; a source says to probe porn and gambling on DouYu  —  DouYu chief executive’s troubles come after authorities find pornography on streaming platform  —  The founder of Tencent-backed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over some allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier in 2023 regarding an alleged ~€870M in unpaid VAT  —  Italy’s Finance Police is seizing about €779 million ($835 million) from the home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. after it allegedly failed to pay some taxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: A recap of the first day of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial, where both sides made their opening statements and Epic Games Store head Steve Allison testified  —  The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified. Lees verder op Tech Meme