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Music creation startup Splice buys London-based orchestral sound studio Spitfire Audio, a source says for ~$50M; sources say Splice has $100M+ in annual revenue (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
2025-04-28 10:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Huawei's recovery shows the limits of US policies aimed at restricting China, and how those policies can backfire, spurring Chinese firms to innovate and grow (Samm Sacks/Bloomberg)
2025-04-28 01:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the sprawling network of group chats that began in 2020 as a place for SV leaders to talk candidly, with Marc Andreessen playing a central role (Ben Smith/Semafor)
2025-04-28 02:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google Chrome won the browser wars fair and square, and the web will be worse off if Google is forced to sell it, even to atone for ad market monopoly abuses (David Heinemeier Hansson/HEY)
2025-04-28 09:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Spotify says it has paid $100M+ to podcast publishers and creators since January 2025 via a new creator program based on Premium subscribers' video engagement (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
2025-04-28 12:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Interpol's innovation lab in Singapore for studying cybercrime, digital piracy, and more, and developing new techniques for bringing down criminals (Owen Walker/Financial Times)
2025-04-28 04:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A deep dive on Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, including 2,700 parts from 187 suppliers in 28 countries; just 30 suppliers have no presence in China (Financial Times)
2025-04-28 10:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
While Big Tech is largely spared from tariffs, small companies making devices like baby monitors face price hikes, shortages, and degrading product quality (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-28 08:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
German defense startup ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving, modular battlefield robots, raised €31M led by HV Capital and plans to build a plant in England (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
2025-04-28 10:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How AI tools like Autistic Translator and Goblin Tools are helping those with autism and other neurodiverse people understand social situations (Andrea Jiménez/Washington Post)
2025-04-28 06:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
IBM plans to invest $150B in the US over the next five years, including in R&D, to fuel the economy and "accelerate its role as the global leader in computing" (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
2025-04-28 13:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Microsoft freezing ~1.5GW of data centers set for 2025 and 2026; Microsoft has walked away from significantly more than 2GW of non-binding contracts (SemiAnalysis)
2025-04-28 12:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lagos-based OmniRetail, which digitizes order management for manufacturers, distributors, and others, raised a $20M Series A, taking its total funding to $38M (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
2025-04-28 13:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tel Aviv-based Lightrun, an observability platform that uses AI to identify and debug code in production, raised a $70M Series B co-led by Accel and Insight (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
2025-04-28 13:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In March 2025, World Uyghur Congress members were targeted with a spearphishing campaign via Windows malware in a legitimate Uyghur language word processor (The Citizen Lab)
2025-04-28 14:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Geoffrey Hinton fears AI companies are under-investing in safety research, embracing military usage, and sharing model weights while pushing for less regulation (CBS Mornings on YouTube)
2025-04-28 00:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, who joined the British cyber security firm in Jan. 2024 and was at the helm when it was bought by Thoma Bravo for £4.3B (Anjli Raval/Financial Times)
2025-04-27 23:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: Meesho accounts for about 37% of India's e-commerce orders, but only 8%-9% of the sector's total value due to the small average transaction size (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
2025-04-27 21:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-04-27 19:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Architect Partners: crypto firms have struck 88 M&A and SPAC deals worth $8.2B so far in 2025, nearly 3x the $2.75B transaction value across 188 deals in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-27 17:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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