ABC: Australian telecom Optus says some key services are “gradually being restored” after hours-long mobile network outage affects over 10M customers  —  Loading…  Optus says some services are “gradually being restored” but it may take a few more hours until the whole network is back online. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Milan-based Qomodo, which offers multiple payment services to consumers and retailers, including BNPL options, raised a €34.5M pre-seed led by Fasanara Capital  —  Milan-based payment aggregator Qomodo raises €34.5 million in Pre-Seed funding, offering a variety … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Isaac / New York Times: In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg positioned WhatsApp as a “next chapter” for Meta; WhatsApp now has more than 225 Channels that each have 1M+ followers  —  The messaging app, which Meta bought nearly a decade ago, was an asset that Mr. Zuckerberg largely left alone for a while.  No longer. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Epic v. Google: internal documents show Activision Blizzard accepted $360M in incentives from Google in 2020 to ensure its games launched on the Play Store  —  – Testimony focused on efforts to lure developers to Google Play  — Billions in revenue are at stake in San Francisco jury trial Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: In a letter, Google and EU telcos called on the European Commission to designate iMessage as a “core” service to make the chat app fully compatible with rivals  —  Companies want chat app designated a ‘core’ service that would require it to be fully compatible with rivals Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Cast AI, whose automation tools help companies monitor, manage, and optimize Kubernetes spend, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to $73M  —  The mass move to digital during the pandemic and the embrace of generative AI accelerated cloud adoption, and the trend hasn’t reversed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Milan-based Qomodo, which offers multiple payment services to consumers and retailers, including BNPL options, raised a €34.5M pre-seed led by Fasanara Capital  —  Milan-based payment aggregator Qomodo raises €34.5 million in Pre-Seed funding, offering a variety … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: Samsung unveils a generative AI model called Gauss, which is being used for employee productivity internally and will be expanded to product applications  —  Samsung has for the first time publicly unveiled its own generative AI model dubbed Samsung Gauss on Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme