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Memory chip maker SK Hynix, a shareholder of Kioxia, opposes a merger with Western Digital

October 26, 2023

A long-expected merger of two of the world’s biggest memory chip companies — Western Digital and Japan’s Kioxia — may be hampered by one of Kioxa’s shareholders, SK Hynix. The South Korean chipmaker said during its earnings call today that it would not agree to a combination of the two players.  “SK Hynix is not […]

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Temasek and SBI pour $384 million into India’s Ola Electric

October 26, 2023

Ola Electric said on Thursday that it has raised $384.43 million in a funding round. What the Bengaluru-headquartered electric vehicle startup — which supposedly has no ongoing relationship with the ride-hailing startup Ola but continues to share resources, much to many investors’ chagrin — didn’t say was that more than $200 million of the new […]

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Meta says users and businesses have 600 million chats on its platforms every day

October 26, 2023

Meta is doubling down on business messages for revenue generation, as Mark Zuckerberg indicated during the company’s earnings call for Q3 2023. Zuckerberg said that the company is looking to tap into generative AI-based bots for businesses for use cases like customer support. The Meta CEO said that users and businesses are interacting more than […]

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African VCs and startups are eyeing the Middle East for new capital, but there’s a catch

October 26, 2023

African startup funding has seen a significant decline of more than 50% over the past three quarters compared to the previous year, as reported by The Big Deal. To date, startups on the continent have secured funding in the range of $2.5 billion to $3 billion, based on data from The Big Deal and Briter […]

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Oxide is the latest startup to try and bring the power of the cloud on prem

October 26, 2023

Over the years, we’ve seen a bunch of attempts to bring cloud-like functionality to the private data center from Mesosphere to OpenStack along with lots of other hardware and software experiments that were developed with the idea of putting compute to work in a way that behaves like the cloud without having to rent from […]

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50inTech believes it’s time to measure diversity with KPIs

October 26, 2023

Tech employees who are in charge of diversity, equity and inclusion are tired. They have been talking with internal stakeholders and promoting diversity across the board. But it’s hard to prove that things have changed because they don’t necessarily have performance indicators to support their work. That’s why a French startup called 50inTech wants to […]

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Zuckerberg says Threads has a ‘good chance’ of reaching 1 billion users in a few years

October 26, 2023

Meta said today that its text-based social network Threads has under 100 million monthly users three months after its launch. Mark Zuckerberg noted during the company’s latest earnings call that the social networking giant is happy with Threads’ progress — with the current growth rate, it could achieve the mark of a billion users in […]

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Xpeng starts removing HD maps from Tesla FSD-like feature in China

October 26, 2023

Xpeng is often called the Chinese challenger to Tesla for its efforts to bring advanced driving capabilities to its electric vehicles. It’s now getting a step closer to its American counterpart as it gets rid of high-definition mapping in its XNGP assisted driving feature, its equivalent to Tesla FSD. Tesla FSD famously does not rely […]

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