Tech Meme

Walter Isaacson / Wall Street Journal: An excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s new Elon Musk biography details Musk’s decision to buy Twitter and how his moods fluctuated wildly before the official closing  —  In an exclusive excerpt from his new biography ‘Elon Musk,’ Walter Isaacson offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most surprising … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: Sources: CoreWeave is exploring a ~10% equity stake sale valuing the company between $5B and $8B; source: CoreWeave revenue is projected to hit $1.5B in 2024  —  – Company counts Nvidia, Magnetar as existing equity investors  — Startup raised $2.3 billion in debt from Blackstone, others Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes laid off 100+ employees as it prepares for a major restructuring to separate its consumer and corporate-facing business units  —  Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes this week laid off 100 employees as it prepares for a major restructuring that will see the business split into two, TechCrunch has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Ivy, which offers an API to create a “network of networks” for open banking payments globally, raised a $20M Series A, after a $7.7M seed in July  —  Open banking — where traditional banks open their data up with APIs to build new financial services for their customers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Hunt / The Block: A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Uniswap, founder Hayden Adams, a16z, and others over scam token sales as software cannot be held accountable for losses  —  – Uniswap founder Hayden Adams hailed the court’s comments as “based” after a class action lawsuit alleging liability for scam token sales was thrown out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: Interbank messaging system Swift and Chainlink successfully transfer tokenized value across multiple private and public blockchains via Chainlink’s CCIP  —  The interbank messaging system Swift announced in June it was collaborating with Chainlink and dozens of financial institutions to test connecting blockchains. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Source: Binance Asia-Pacific’s head Leon Foong resigned from the exchange, the latest senior executive departure; Foong helped expand in South Korea and Japan  —  – Foong led Binance expansion into markets like Japan, Korea  — Market share has declined after a global regulatory crackdown Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta begins testing full-text search on Threads in Australia and New Zealand and plans a wider rollout to other English-speaking countries in the future  —  Threads launched one of the most anticipated features, a web version of the platform, last week.  Now, Meta is testing another highly … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 across Europe from October 1, instead offering Teams to enterprise for €24 per year  —  – Company offers to unbundle Teams from other business software  — EU investigating if Microsoft’s bundling broke antitrust law Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Binance plans to “gradually” end support for its BUSD stablecoin by February 2024, citing Paxos ceasing to mint new BUSD after an NYDFS order in February 2023  —  The move follows Paxos’ decision to halt minting of new BUSD.  —  Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it will … Lees verder op Tech Meme