Friday, July 29, 2022
Crypto platform Zipmex files for bankruptcy protection in Singapore
Snapchat to pay musicians up to $100K per month for top-performing songs
Thursday, July 28, 2022
An interview with a Baidu robotaxi safety operator, who sits in the passenger seat and monitors how self-driving cars cope with Beijing's streets (Zeyi Yang/MIT Technology Review)
An interview with a Baidu robotaxi safety operator, who sits in the passenger seat and monitors how self-driving cars cope with Beijing's streets — We spoke to Liu Yang, who has one of the strangest jobs around: to sit in the passenger seat and monitor how self-driving cars cope with Beijing's streets.
Worldwide Mobile Pricing 2022 survey of mobile data prices: five of the world's 10 most expensive places are in sub-Saharan Africa; Israel is the cheapest (Annie Njanja/TechCrunch)
Worldwide Mobile Pricing 2022 survey of mobile data prices: five of the world's 10 most expensive places are in sub-Saharan Africa; Israel is the cheapest — A new report detailing the cost of mobile data in different markets across the world, bears the evidence of why internet use …
Sources: Jack Ma plans to relinquish control of Alibaba's Ant Group, potentially pushing back Ant's IPO for a year or more; regulators approve of the change (Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Jack Ma plans to relinquish control of Alibaba's Ant Group, potentially pushing back Ant's IPO for a year or more; regulators approve of the change — The shift, long under consideration to reduce governance risks, comes as the Chinese fintech giant seeks to move on from a tough year
Gmail’s new unified design is now rolling out to everyone
An interview with Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on the company's $1B annual revenue goal, post-IPO stock price crash, giving investors more info, and more (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
An interview with Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on the company's $1B annual revenue goal, post-IPO stock price crash, giving investors more info, and more — Paytm was the poster boy for India's tech startups, only to lose two-thirds of its value since its IPO and become a symbol of the industry's crash.
Greater London Authority warns housing developers about a potential ban on new housing until 2035, citing a growing number of data centers consuming electricity (Financial Times)
Greater London Authority warns housing developers about a potential ban on new housing until 2035, citing a growing number of data centers consuming electricity — Greater London Authority warns developers that upgrade might take more than a decade — Developers in west London face …
Experts say it is not clear whether generative art made by AI systems trained on copyrighted data, like OpenAI's DALL-E 2, can be considered as fair use (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)
Experts say it is not clear whether generative art made by AI systems trained on copyrighted data, like OpenAI's DALL-E 2, can be considered as fair use — In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists under a false name.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Microsoft’s $51.9 billion quarter: What's up, what's down and what's struggling
Spotify says it has "decided to stop further production of Car Thing units" and will take a €31M charge, citing demand and supply chain issues (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Spotify says it has “decided to stop further production of Car Thing units” and will take a €31M charge, citing demand and supply chain issues — Spotify's push to complement its music streaming with a big move into podcasting and related content appears to be paying off …
An illustrated look at the bipartisan American Innovation and Choice Act's impact on US tech giants, seeking to ban self-preferencing and improve competition (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
An illustrated look at the bipartisan American Innovation and Choice Act's impact on US tech giants, seeking to ban self-preferencing and improve competition — US lawmakers are eyeing votes before November's midterm elections on legislation that marks the first major effort by Congress …
Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 23% YoY to €2.9B as its net loss widened to €125M; MAUs were up 19% YoY to 433M and Premium users reached to 188M, up 14% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 23% YoY to €2.9B as its net loss widened to €125M; MAUs were up 19% YoY to 433M and Premium users reached to 188M, up 14% YoY — Spotify turned in strong numbers for the second quarter, beating expectations for total and paid subscriber adds and reporting 23% revenue growth.
Acronis, which offers enterprise cybersecurity and data protection tools, raised $250M at a $3.5B+ valuation, up from $2.5B in May 2021 after raising $250M (Bloomberg)
Acronis, which offers enterprise cybersecurity and data protection tools, raised $250M at a $3.5B+ valuation, up from $2.5B in May 2021 after raising $250M — Cybersecurity provider Acronis raised $250 million in new funding from institutional investors earlier this year to expand its business …
UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published what it called the world's first guidance on auditor AI usage (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)
Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times : UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published...
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