Tech Meme

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: Tata Group is close to an agreement to acquire Wistron’s iPhone plant near Bengaluru as soon as August; the deal is potentially valued at $600M+  —  Tata Group, India’s largest conglomerate, is close to an agreement to acquire an Apple Inc. supplier’s factory as soon as August … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Personal data of potentially tens of millions of HCA Healthcare patients was stolen from an “external storage location” and is for sale on a data breach forum  —  – HCA Healthcare patient data has been hacked and is now for sale, according to the company. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Uber CFO Nelson Chai plans to step down, the company’s most significant executive exit since its 2019 IPO, but a decision on timing hasn’t been made  —  Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Financial Officer Nelson Chai is planning to leave the ride-hailing company, according to people familiar … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times: A look at EV ride-hailing company BluSmart, which operates ~4,500 cabs in New Delhi and Bengaluru, and has raised $120M+ in equity and debt from BP and others  —  Start-up operates 4,500 cabs in New Delhi and tech hub Bengaluru in bid to electrify country’s taxi fleet Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Meta told an Australian inquiry on foreign interference that it plans to build “state-affiliated media” and “fact-checking” labels on Threads “expeditiously”  —  Social media giant Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Bangladesh’s Computer Incident Response Team took down citizens’ sensitive data exposed through a government site and says it “promptly” addressed the breach  —  The Bangladeshi government on Sunday took down the sensitive citizens’ data that it had left exposed online. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: PE firm TPG agrees to buy the government cybersecurity business of Francisco Partners-owned Forcepoint for $2.45B in a deal expected to close in Q4 2023  —  Buyout firm TPG Capital today said it will acquire the government business of cybersecurity company Forcepoint LLC for $2.45 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Insider: A look at “lazy management”, an alternative explanation to the claim that some tech employees drag down companies by raking in big paychecks and working little  —  Inside the perverse system of ‘lazy management’ that’s wrecking the tech industry … When Graham was hired by Amazon, it sounded like his dream job. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Snap rolls out integration with Linktree, allowing users to show links on Snapchat; Snap previously only allowed brands and Star creators to include links  —  Snap announced today that it is rolling out an integration with the link-in-bio tool Linktree to let people show off their work and other profiles on Snapchat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: Sega of America workers win their union vote 91 to 26, becoming the first video game industry union at a major company that spans multiple departments  —  Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega win by overwhelming majority  —  Sega of America workers voted “yes” to officially form a union. Lees verder op Tech Meme