Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a four-month investigation into Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition after the end of a preliminary review on July 6  —  EU antitrust regulators are expected to open a full-scale investigation into Amazon’s (AMZN.O) $1.7 billion acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Acryl Data, which offers a data catalog service built on the open-source framework DataHub, raised a $21M Series A led by 8VC, taking its total funding to $30M  —  With the explosion of different kinds of data, companies are struggling to realize meaningful value from their stored data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Politico: The EU’s Thierry Breton visits California to discuss the DSA with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, and a new AI Pact with Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang  —  Thierry Breton flies to US to warn Twitter’s Elon Musk and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to fall in line with EU law. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Glenn Gamboa / Associated Press: Google pledges $20M in grants to support and expand the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, aiming to introduce US students to potential cybersecurity careers  —  Free medical clinics and legal aid clinics, where college students and their instructors help their communities while also learning … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Robinhood acquires X1, a startup offering a no-fee income-based credit card with rewards, for $95M in cash; X1 had raised $62M, including $15M in December 2022  —  Robinhood announced on Thursday that it was acquiring X1, a no-fee credit card startup, for $95 million in cash. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: BitGo ends its deal to buy rival Prime Trust, which halts all deposits and withdrawals; a judge dismissed BitGo’s lawsuit over the failed Galaxy Digital deal  —  Prime Trust has been losing clients and deposits to competitors for weeks amid mounting concerns over its business, a source at one former client told CoinDesk. Lees verder op Tech Meme