Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: Google Play hosts 1.8M apps, down 47% from 3.4M at the beginning of 2024, a decline likely due to raised minimum quality requirements  —  Google Play’s app marketplace is losing apps.  —  From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella says 20% to 30% of code in Microsoft’s repositories was AI-written, and Microsoft was seeing more progress in Python and less in C++  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: TSMC begins building a third fab in Arizona, announcing the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC’s site  —  Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality  —  Beats’ newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The US DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster may set the tone for how the Trump administration approaches competition policy  —  Rivals and competition experts fear the White House will not pursue its predecessor’s antitrust case against the events giant Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Online graphic design platform Freepik unveils F Lite, a 10B-parameter “open” AI image model that it says was trained on ~80M licensed, “safe-for-work” images  —  Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Hale / Tubefilter: Streams Charts: YouTube was the most-watched livestreaming platform in Q1 2025, with 50% of total watch hours, followed by TikTok with 27% and Twitch with 16%  —  It’s been a few years since the Great Ninja Exodus that pitted Twitch, YouTube, Microsoft’s now-defunct Mixer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Beauhurst: UK equity crowdfunding, once one of fintech’s hottest trends, fell 58% from its 2021 peak to £335M in 2024, and dropped ~60% YoY in Q1 2025 to £42.6M  —  Once one of fintech’s hottest trends, equity crowdfunding gave millions of retail investors a chance to strike gold … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Axios: IAB: full-time US digital creator jobs grew from 200,000 in 2020 to 1.5M in 2024; the internet-supported economy accounts for 18% of US GDP, up from 2% in 2008  —  The number of people with full-time equivalent jobs as digital creators in the U.S. jumped from 200,000 in 2020 to 1.5 million in 2024, according to a new report. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella said 20%-30% of code in Microsoft’s repositories was written by AI and the company was seeing more progress in Python and less in C++  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme