Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Houston-based P97, which works with fuel brands, car OS makers, and others to let drivers pay for gas or charging via apps or their car, raised a $40M Series C  —  The rising prices for gas continue to be a headache and stress for a lot of people around the world, but it underscores something … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Helped by his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk surpasses President Obama to become the most followed person on the service with 133,068,709 followers  —  Elon Musk has dethroned former President Barack Obama as the most followed person on Twitter.  As of right now, the billionaire … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Pathmatics: the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent just $7.6M on ads in the last two months, down from $71M from September to October 2022  —  In the weeks after Elon Musk acquired Twitter Inc., hundreds of advertisers paused spending on the platform, wary of the changes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Karissa Bell / Engadget: T2, the invite-only Twitter alternative, will allow users who are about to lose their Twitter checkmark on April 1 to carry over the verification to its site  —  With Elon Musk set to pull verification from thousands of users who were verified under the company’s previous leadership … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: The New York Times says it isn’t planning to pay for Twitter verification and, as a rule, won’t reimburse reporters for verification of personal accounts  —  New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification: “We aren’t planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts,” a spokesperson tells me. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Guardian: Leaked documents from Moscow-based company NTC Vulkan show how it helps GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, attacks on national infrastructure, and more  —  Documents leaked by whistleblower angry over Ukraine war  —  Private Moscow consultancy bolstering Russian cyberwarfare Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: P97, which works with fuel brands, car OS makers, and others to let users pay for gas or electric charge through app or connected car, raised a $40M Series C  —  The rising prices for gas continue to be a headache and stress for a lot of people around the world, but it underscores something … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Midjourney halts free trials, citing “extraordinary demand” and “abuse”, after fake images of Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis wearing a coat went viral  —  Midjourney, the year-old firm behind recent fake visuals of Trump and the pope, illustrates the lack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Parloa, which uses AI and low-code tools to automate call center operations, raised a €20M Series A led by EQT Ventures  —  It’s estimated that over $400 billion are spent annually to run customer contact centers around the world.  To cut costs, in recent years … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Fixie, which aims to help developers integrate LLMs into their own applications, raised a $17M seed led by Redpoint Ventures  —  The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised a $17 million seed round. Lees verder op Tech Meme