Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Apple plans to move assembly of all US-sold iPhones, ~60M/year, to India by the end of 2026, as President Trump’s trade war pushes a pivot from China  —  FT Exclusive: Tech giant plans to shift assembly as soon as next year in response to Donald Trump’s trade war Lees verder op Tech Meme

Danny Goodwin / Search Engine Land: YouTube is testing a new AI Overviews carousel in its search results for queries focused on products and location information, for some US Premium subscribers  —  YouTube’s AI Overviews test could reshape how users find videos.  Will it boost discovery or cut into views for creators and brands? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: the US is conducting a criminal antitrust probe into TP-Link’s pricing strategies and whether the router maker represents a national security threat  —  Beyond pricing, a focus of the inquiry is also whether the company’s growing US market share represents a threat to national security … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Source: Alphabet’s Q1 profit was boosted by $8B in unrealized gains from an investment in SpaceX; Alphabet has been a major SpaceX investor since at least 2015  —  That company is Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., according to a person familiar with the matter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Netflix rolls out subtitles with just spoken dialog, without audio cues or speaker names, and says ~50% of US viewing hours happen with subtitles or captions on  —  The new option drops sound descriptions and speaker names from subtitles. … Netflix is rolling out a new subtitle option that shows just spoken dialogue. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Facebook will reduce the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and make them ineligible for monetization, after Zuckerberg promised a return to “OG Facebook”  —  Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announces changes, including an engineering refocus, reductions in unnecessary bureaucracy and workforce, and four-day-per-week RTO policy  —  Today is Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings call, and the first we’re truly hearing from new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took over the company on March 18th. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pete Schroeder / Reuters: The US Federal Reserve withdraws guidance requiring banks to seek regulatory approval before engaging in crypto-related activities, joining the FDIC and OCC  —  U.S. banking regulators announced on Thursday they were pulling back several documents that urge banks to show caution when dabbling in cryptocurrency and related activities. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: a Yahoo executive estimates that a bid for Chrome would cost tens of billions of dollars, and says Yahoo “would be able to pursue it with Apollo”  —  – Company working to ‘revitalize’ its search engine, properties  — Yahoo official testifies at Google’s antitrust remedy trial Lees verder op Tech Meme

Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: The EU Commission says it banned officials from meeting with lobbyists acting on Huawei’s behalf, after the EU Parliament banned Huawei staff from its premises  —  The European Parliament had banned Huawei staff from its premises, with the commission following suit last month Lees verder op Tech Meme