Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: DoorDash tests a prompt warning customers that orders with no tip ahead of time may take longer to get delivered, since drivers choose which orders to accept  —  DoorDash has added a pop-up in its app this week warning customers that orders with no tip might take longer to get delivered. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple quietly discontinued Apple Music’s $4.99/month Voice Plan, which was introduced in 2021 and let users access the Apple Music catalog exclusively via Siri  —  Apple this week held a special event to announce new Macs, but what the company didn’t tell is that it has just quietly discontinued the … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: CRM platform HubSpot plans to acquire B2B data provider Clearbit, which has 400K+ users and 1,500+ business customers, and was valued at $250M in January 2019  —  HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software maker and CRM platform, announced today it’s acquiring the B2B data provider Clearbit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Snowflake unveils Snowflake Cortex, a fully managed service designed to help business users and developers work with AI-powered apps on its Data Cloud platform  —  Companies use Snowflake to store their data in the cloud.  With the ever growing interest in generative AI and large language models … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple quietly discontinued Apple Music’s $4.99/month Voice Plan, which was introduced in 2021 and let users access the Apple Music catalog exclusively via Siri  —  Apple this week held a special event to announce new Macs, but what the company didn’t tell is that it has just quietly discontinued the … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Duball / IAPP: The EDPB instructs the Irish DPC to ban Meta’s use of personal data for behavioral ads on the legal base of contract and legitimate interest in the EU and EEA  —  An unprecedented shakeup in the advertising technology space has arrived in Europe.  Changes are coming to adtech’s approach … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Airbnb Q3: revenue up 18% YoY to $3.4B, vs. $3.37B est., Nights and Experiences Booked up 14% YoY to 113.2M, vs. 112.9M est., and Q4 revenue forecast below est.  —  – Airbnb reported its third-quarter earnings results after the bell, beating consensus estimates on revenue but falling short … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Bursztynsky / Fast Company: DoorDash reports Q3 revenue up 27% YoY to $2.16B, vs. $2.09B est., total orders up 24% YoY to 543M, and net loss down 75% YoY to $75M; DASH jumps 7%+  —  DoorDash reported its “best quarter ever” since its IPO in a number of key categories on Wednesday, which it says was driven partly by efficiency and customer demand as summer ended. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Spangler / Variety: Roku reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $912M, vs. $853.2M est., net loss up 170% YoY to $330M, and forecasts a “similar” YoY ad growth for Q4; ROKU jumps 15%+  —  Roku shares rose after the streaming-platform company beat Wall Street expectations for the third quarter of 2023 on the top line. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple quietly discontinued Apple Music’s $4.99/month Voice Plan, which was introduced in 2021 and let users access the Apple Music catalog exclusively via Siri  —  Apple this week held a special event to announce new Macs, but what the company didn’t tell is that it has just quietly discontinued the … Lees verder op Tech Meme