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Sources: Chinese regulators met with Walmart, PayPal, and other foreign companies to help navigate China's new data security rules, hoping to ease legal fears (Sarah Zheng/Bloomberg) 17-08-2023

Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese regulators met with Walmart, PayPal, and other foreign companies to help navigate China’s new data security rules, hoping to ease legal fears  —  – Walmart, PayPal among foreign firms that met CAC last week  — They discussed fast-tracking some data transfers abroad Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adyen reports H1 2023 net revenue up 21% YoY to €739.1M, below €754M est., €320M EBITDA, below €365M est., and defends hiring 551 new staff; ADYEN.AS drops 35%+ (Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan/Financial …) 17-08-2023

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: Adyen reports H1 2023 net revenue up 21% YoY to €739.1M, below €754M est., €320M EBITDA, below €365M est., and defends hiring 551 new staff; ADYEN.AS drops 35%+  —  Dutch company counts cost of sustained recruitment and fierce US competition Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jefferies and TrueUp: tech companies laid off 342,671 employees so far in 2023, up from the 243,075 job cuts across 2022, but cuts have slowed in the summer (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) 17-08-2023

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Jefferies and TrueUp: tech companies laid off 342,671 employees so far in 2023, up from the 243,075 job cuts across 2022, but cuts have slowed in the summer  —  Tech companies aren’t yet ramping up hiring after massive layoffs over the past year, despite a surge in interest in artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta starts rolling out HD photo support globally in WhatsApp for Android, iOS, and the web, and says the company plans to add support for HD videos soon (Umar Shakir/The Verge) 17-08-2023

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Meta starts rolling out HD photo support globally in WhatsApp for Android, iOS, and the web, and says the company plans to add support for HD videos soon  —  WhatsApp is flipping a switch that will let users send higher-quality “HD” images on the messaging platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Ramp, which offers credit cards and expense management software, is raising funding at a $5.5B valuation, a 32% cut to its $8.1B valuation from 2022 (Kate Clark/The Information) 17-08-2023

Kate Clark / The Information: Sources: Ramp, which offers credit cards and expense management software, is raising funding at a $5.5B valuation, a 32% cut to its $8.1B valuation from 2022  —  Fintech startup Ramp is raising several hundred million from investors at a $5.5 billion valuation, measured before the investment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google launches a new Transparency Center to let users report harmful content, make appeals across Google's services, read its transparency reports, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) 17-08-2023

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google launches a new Transparency Center to let users report harmful content, make appeals across Google’s services, read its transparency reports, and more  —  Google is launching a new Transparency Center to make it easier for users to learn more about its product policies. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Llion Jones, who co-authored Google's pioneering transformer paper, launches Sakana AI alongside David Ha, the former head of Google's AI research arm in Japan (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times) 17-08-2023

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Llion Jones, who co-authored Google’s pioneering transformer paper, launches Sakana AI alongside David Ha, the former head of Google’s AI research arm in Japan  —  Llion Jones and David Ha take inspiration from nature with start-up Sakana AI  —  A former Google researcher who co-authored … Lees verder op Tech Meme