Tech Meme

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Carta data shows that 966 US-based startups shut down in 2024, compared to 769 in 2023, with enterprise SaaS startups accounting for 32% of the closures  —  More startups shut down in 2024 than the year prior, according to multiple sources, and that’s not really a surprise considering … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Paris-based online corporate event booking marketplace Naboo raised a €20M Series A led by Notion Capital, and says its 2024 booking volumes grew 4x YoY to €60M  —  If you’ve ever tried to book a venue for a company event, you’ll know how onerous a task it can be. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nami Matsuura / Nikkei Asia: Samsung and LG unveil new OLED tech, including stretchable and transparent screens, to counter Chinese rivals, which held a 33% market share in 2024, per DSCC  —  SEOUL — South Korea’s Samsung and LG are putting out new OLED technologies like stretchable and transparent screens as they try to stave off rising Chinese competition. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: ASML reports Q4 net profit of €2.69B on €9.26B net sales, net bookings up 169% QoQ to €7.09B, and expects 2025 net sales of €30B to €35B, up from €28.3B in 2024  —  Dutch semiconductor giant ASML on Wednesday reported a big jump in fourth-quarter net bookings … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: The US could encourage future DeepSeeks to happen inside the US by funding the NAIRR, a pilot project providing compute power to university-level researchers  —  Now What?  —  THE SCENE  —  More than two weeks before the recent market meltdown, OpenAI’s head of global policy Chris Lehane told … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model which the company claims “outperforms … almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B”  —  Chinese tech company Alibaba (9988.HK) on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: ASML reports Q4 net profit of €2.69B on €9.26B net sales, net bookings up 169% QoQ to €7.09B, and expects 2025 net sales of €30B to €35B, up from €28.3B in 2024  —  Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML on Wednesday reported better-than-expected net sales and profit results for the fourth quarter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: Crypto risk modeling firm Gauntlet estimates the $TRUMP memecoin has generated at least $11.4M in fees for entities linked to President Trump since its launch  —  – Official Trump cryptocurrency was launched before inauguration  — Token surged to more than $14 billion in value after its debut Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Knappenberger / Courthouse News Service: A US federal judge denied a motion by Apple to intervene as a defendant in the remedy trial of the DOJ vs. Google case, saying Apple’s motion was untimely  —  U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Apple had waited too long to file their motion and granting the company’s request … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: OpenAI says it had seen some evidence that DeepSeek used “distillation” to train its open-source competitor by using outputs from OpenAI’s proprietary models  —  White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft Lees verder op Tech Meme