|
March 15, 2022, 1:15 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
ConsenSys, which develops and invests in Ethereum projects, announces a $450M Series D led by ParaFi Capital at a $7B valuation and says MetaMask has 30M+ MAUs — The hefty Series D more than doubles the firm's previous valuation from November 2021. — Ethereum application …
More:
ConsenSys, FinSMEs, Decrypt, Forbes, Axios, Decrypt, TechCrunch, The Block, Crowdfund Insider, Crypto Briefing, Coinmonks, and Forkast. Tweets: @loomdart
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Arm to cut up to 1,000 jobs, or 15% of its workforce in the UK and the US, before its IPO; a source says most of the cuts won't affect engineers — Arm Ltd., the SoftBank Group Corp. unit preparing for an initial public offering, will cut as much as 15% of its workforce …
More:
Telegraph, The Guardian, Engadget, TechRadar, DCD, iPhone in Canada Blog, Financial Times, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, The Verge, The Register, Benzinga, BBC, Tech Xplore, Neowin, MobileSyrup, CNBC, South China Morning Post, This is Money, Sky News, The Times, Computerworld, Tech in Asia, and Nikkei Asia
| Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
The FTC, which has long struggled to combat deceptive data practices, is increasingly forcing companies to delete algorithmic systems built with ill-gotten data — The Federal Trade Commission has struggled over the years to find ways to combat deceptive digital data practices using its limited set of enforcement options.
More:
Pixel Envy. Tweets: @katekayereports, @jtashea, @keanbirch, @elinor_carmi, @techwontsaveus, @kavyapearlman, @cbridge_chief, @robertjbateman, @alexcengler, @jtrevorhughes, @schock, @bentarnoff, and @jason_kint
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
AMD plans to release the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the “world's fastest gaming processor”, on April 20 for $449, marking the debut of the company's 3D-stacking V-Cache — Along with a new slate of more affordable processors coming April 4th — AMD's latest desktop processor … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel plans to invest €33B+ in Europe, including a €17B “leading-edge semiconductor fab mega-site” in Germany and a €12B expansion of its existing Ireland fab — Along with a €12 billion investment to expand its existing fab in Ireland
More:
CNET, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, CRN, The Register, Oregonian, techmonitor.ai, Silicon Republic, Business Wire, RTÉ, Windows Central, TechCrunch, PCMag, Reuters, VideoCardz.com, The Irish Times, Bloomberg, Financial Times, TechRadar, Wccftech, ServeTheHome, PC Gamer, CNBC, and Phoronix
Tweets: @intelpolicy, @randhir_intel, @codendahl, @intelnews, and @vonderleyen
| TechCrunch: |
Aptos, a Layer 1 blockchain built by ex-Meta employees who worked on Diem, raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation led by a16z — Facebook's audacious attempt at creating a crypto payments network met an unceremonious end earlier this year when Silvergate Capital acquired the Diem technology assets for $182 million.
More:
Aptoslabs. Tweets: @moshaikhs, @lucasmtny, @twobitidiot, @skyguocypherium, @alex, @_neilh, @refsrc, @cdixon, @cdixon, and @cdixon
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google details its plans for Stadia, including Immersive Stream for Games, a B2B offering to let other companies create their own cloud gaming services — Less friction, more white-labeling — Google's Stadia cloud gaming service didn't stick the landing, and it's been a rough ride since.
More:
9to5Google, 9to5Google, Game Developer, Thurrott, Android Police, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, Forbes, and VentureBeat
| Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
EU approves Amazon's $6.5B MGM acquisition, says the deal won't reduce competition as the companies don't overlap in content and MGM content is not a must-have — Regulators conclude deal wouldn't significantly harm competition in Europe — European Union antitrust officials gave … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The Irish DPC fines Meta €17M for GDPR violations related to 12 personal data breaches that Meta disclosed to the regulator in 2018 — Facebook's parent company, Meta, has been fined €17 million (~$18.6M) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) over a string of historical data breaches.
More:
Silicon Republic, Data Protection Commission, and TheJournal.ie
| Aodhan O Faolain / TheJournal.ie: |
More:
RTÉ, Forbes, The Irish Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, Tech Xplore, d2331, Silicon Republic, Irish Council …, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @johnnyryan, @johnnyryan, @johnnyryan, and @thejournal_ie
| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: TV shows make up ~75% of Netflix's top 10 lists, the average hit fades after two weeks or less, and Asian hits overlap the least with other markets — Nobody in Hollywood knows for sure what works on Netflix. — The company releases statistics like “26 million people watched this show in the first 28 days.”
More:
Apple Gazette and The Streamable
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Pakistan-based Bazaar, which operates a B2B marketplace for merchants and helps them digitize their bookkeeping, raises a $70M Series B — Dragoneer Investment and Tiger Global are backing Bazaar, a startup that is attempting to digitize Pakistan's retail with e-commerce …
More:
Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, and DealStreetAsia
Tweets: @saadjangda, @sarthakgh, @cmschroed, and @asfandyarf
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Run:AI, which helps businesses optimize their AI workloads, raises a $75M Series C led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $118M — While interest in AI remains high among enterprise organizations, particularly for its potential to improve decision-making …
More:
ZDNet, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Globes Online, and Run:AI
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
RightBound, which automates customer insights and outreach for sales representatives, raises a $15.5M Series A extension, for a total Series A of $27M — AI and automation have the potential to transform the sales industry. A 2020 Harvard Business Review report found that AI could create …
More:
FinSMEs
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Source: Zomato reaches a merger agreement with instant delivery service Blinkit, formerly Grofers, in an all-stock deal valuing Blinkit between $700M and $750M — Food delivery firm Zomato and instant delivery service Blinkit have reached an agreement for a merger, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.
More:
Reuters, Business Today, and Bloomberg
| Michael Novinson / CRN: |
SentinelOne to acquire identity threat detection and response company Attivo Networks for $616.5M, its second acquisition; Attivo raised $60.1M in funding — 'For Attivo, this acquisition is not an exit. Joining forces with SentinelOne is just the opposite: an opportunity to continue …
More:
CyberScoop, Attivo Networks, and Dark Reading
| Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
Cowbell Cyber, which uses AI to assess risk and offer insurance for SMBs, raises a $100M Series B — Today, cyber insurance provider Cowbell Cyber announced that it had closed a Series B funding round of $100 million for its continuous underwriting platform.
More:
PYMNTS.com, CRN, SiliconANGLE, PR Newswire, TechCrunch, and SecurityWeek
| Financial Times: |
GoTo, formed by the $18B merger of superapp Gojek and e-commerce business Tokopedia, plans to raise up to $1.3B via an Indonesia Stock Exchange IPO in April — SoftBank-backed tech group to list as investors bet on booming digital economy — GoTo, Indonesia's biggest start-up …
More:
TechCrunch, Business Wire, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, DealStreetAsia, ExchangeWire.com, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, and finews.asia. Tweets: @montyhamilton
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Perlego, a digital subscription-based library of academic textbooks with about 850K titles, raises a $50M Series B led by Mediahuis Ventures — Spotify helped pave the way for a new model for consumers to listen to music: pay a monthly fee to stream whatever you want … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
MPA: streaming made up 72% of the $99.7B global streaming and theatrical movie market in 2021, up from 46% in 2019; streaming subscriptions hit 1.3B, up 14% YoY — A sharp uptick in paid online video subscriptions and original content production for streaming platforms has helped … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Israel's National Cyber Directorate says the country has recovered from a DDoS attack on a communications provider that took down government websites on Monday — Israel appears to be recovering from a large-scale cyberattack. According to Haaretz and Kan's Amichai Stein … Sponsor Posts
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Zoho:
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
Genesys:
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.Who's Hiring In Tech?
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 12/20 - Gemini Flash Thinking
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:15 PM ET, March 15, 2022.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
New York Times:Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Jack Dunn / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
More:
DirectX Developer Blog, Ars Technica, HotHardware.com News, Tom's Hardware, ZDNet, Engadget, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Club386, PCWorld, TechCircle, Tech Gaming Report, OSnews, XDA Developers, Wccftech, Neowin, OnMSFT.com, and Phoronix. Tweets: @chillblast
| Tim Cocks / Reuters: |
Earlier Picks
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
More:
Computerworld, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, CNET, MacStories, Rambo Codes, MacRumors, MacRumors, Macworld, iMore, Transistori, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Thurrott, The Mac Observer, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, BGR, Redmond Pie, CNBC, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, XDA Developers, and 9to5Mac
| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
More:
European Parliament, Protocol, Finextra, CoinDesk, Finbold, Crypto Adventure, Waivly, Coinspeaker, Silicon Republic, crypto.news, CoinJournal, TechRadar, Blockchain News, The Verge, BlockProf, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, Tech Monitor, Crypto Daily, Neowin, The Block, Bitcoinist.com, Forkast, Crypto Briefing, Ethereum World News, ZyCrypto, CoinGape, and Bitcoin Magazine
Tweets: @paddi_hansen, @pierr_person, @smtgpt, @theguyswann, @millaliraj, @zenledgerio, @peterjhowson, and @thecryptolark
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Source:
The Information. More:
Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @modestproposal1, @samrosentweets, @bysarahkrouse, @waynema, @amir, @amir, and @jessicalessin
| Hollywood Reporter: |
More:
Variety, Variety, MUO, KnowTechie, The Verge, Pocket-lint, dot.LA, TechCrunch, Engadget, Broadband TV News, MobileSyrup, IGN, Android Central, Neowin, Cord Cutters News, HD Guru, Android Police, and The Streamable
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Source:
@mingchikuo. More:
9to5Mac, SemiAnalysis, KnowTechie, Livemint, PhoneArena, iMore, PCMag, Input, HotHardware.com News, Softpedia News, Review Geek, Appleosophy, MacDailyNews, and The Mac Observer