Tech Meme

Antoine Gara / Financial Times: US private equity firm Silver Lake and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board offer to acquire Qualtrics for $12.4B as SAP looks to divest its 71% stake  —  Deal for survey software group would be one of largest this year  —  US private equity group Silver Lake and one of Canada’s largest pension funds … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: How buy now, pay later services became a popular target for fraudsters, sometimes helped by companies’ loose underwriting process for customer applications  —  Seung Song said his identity was stolen and used to buy $5,000 worth of gun components from an online dealer using a buy now, pay later service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021  —  German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Sources: ~20 leaders left Clubhouse over the past year or so, including hires from Meta and Google; Clubhouse says the startup continues to add “top talent”  —  Roughly 20 leaders have departed Clubhouse over the past year or so, including many of the notable hires … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shaji Mathew / Bloomberg: Abu Dhabi-based data analytics startup Presight AI, owned by AI and cloud computing company G42, plans to raise $495M at a $2.04B valuation in a March 13 IPO  —  Presight AI Holding Plc, a data analytics firm owned by Abu Dhabi’s G42, plans to raise $495 million from an initial public offering … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Some Twitter services are down, like loading images and TweetDeck; clicking a link in a tweet gives the error “your current API plan does not include access”  —  Links are completely busted on Twitter at the minute across the company’s website and mobile apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021  —  German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benedict Evans: Analysis: Amazon had $38B in 2022 ad revenue, more than the entire global newspaper industry and likely above Prime, leading to questions over ads and marketing  —  I first started paying attention to Amazon’s ad business a couple of years ago, when a line called ‘other’ in the back of the accounts started to grow really fast. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Antoine Gara / Financial Times: US private equity firm Silver Lake and a Canadian pension fund offer to acquire Qualtrics for $12.4B as majority owner SAP looks to divest its 71% stake  —  Deal for survey software group would be one of largest this year  —  US private equity group Silver Lake and one of Canada’s largest pension funds … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021  —  German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme