Tech Meme

Financial Times: Filings: SoftBank has sold ~$7.2B worth of Alibaba shares in 2023, reducing its stake in the Chinese company to just 3.8%, after a record $29B selldown in 2022  —  Japanese investor makes $7.2bn from forward sales of shares in Chinese ecommerce group as lucrative partnership wanes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: LinkedIn announces free identity verification via company email for all users globally and via a government ID and phone number for US users using CLEAR  —  LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Fung / CNN: Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill requiring that social media companies verify new users’ ages and get a parent’s consent for users under 18  —  Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a sweeping bill imposing a minimum age limit for social media usage … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: NYC-based Cybersyn, a data-as-a-service startup that aims to make economic data more accessible, emerges from stealth with a $62.9M Series A led by Snowflake  —  Cybersyn, a New York-based company offering data-as-a-service for enterprises, today emerged from stealth with $62.9 million in Series A funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Glynn / BBC: Twitter changes its label on the main BBC account from “Government Funded Media” to “Publicly funded media”, after the broadcaster called the label inaccurate  —  Twitter has changed a label on the main BBC account, saying it is “publicly-funded” instead of … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent  —  The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: New York City-based Cybersyn, a data-as-a-service company focused on offering economic data, emerges from stealth with a $62.9M Series A led by Snowflake  —  Cybersyn, a New York-based company offering data-as-a-service for enterprises, today emerged from stealth with $62.9 million in Series A funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Spangler / Variety: Warner Bros. Discovery officially announces Max as the new name of its flagship streaming service, launching in the US on May 23 with HBO and Discovery+ content  —  It’s not HBO Max — soon it’s just going to be Max. … The company announced the name change at a press event Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its instruction-following LLM released two weeks ago, with a dataset of 15K+ records generated by its staff  —  Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Danielle Abril / Washington Post: PitchBook: VC investment from 2020 to 2022 grew 278% to $5.4B in Miami, 231% to $10.2B in Chicago, 123% to $3.8B in Denver, and 19% to $74.9B in Silicon Valley  —  Layoffs, remote work and pandemic-era changes are reshaping where workers live and tech gets made. Lees verder op Tech Meme