Journals

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: Berlin-based Delivery Hero plans to sell 68.2M shares of Deliveroo, or a ~4.5% stake worth ~£83M, and does not expect to hold any Deliveroo stock afterwards  —  Sector has been coming under increasing pressure… Read More »Berlin-based Delivery Hero plans to sell 68.2M shares of Deliveroo, or a ~4.5% stake worth ~£83M, and does not expect to hold any Deliveroo stock afterwards (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times)

Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton says the company is in the early stages of planning a London IPO, appointing two banks, after considering a listing in early 2022  —  – Peel Hunt, Jefferies are working on… Read More »Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton says the company is in the early stages of planning a London IPO, appointing two banks, after considering a listing in early 2022 (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)

Yiwen Lu / New York Times: The AI boom has spurred law firms, hospitals, insurance companies, government agencies, and others to create chief AI officer roles to navigate the use of AI  —  Many feared that artificial intelligence would kill… Read More »The AI boom has spurred law firms, hospitals, insurance companies, government agencies, and others to create chief AI officer roles to navigate the use of AI (Yiwen Lu/New York Times)

Daniel Bader / Android Police: An interview with VP and General Manager of Google Play Sam Bright on Play Store curation, AI, quality gap between Android apps and their iOS counterparts, more  —  Android Police spoke to Sam Bright, VP… Read More »An interview with VP and General Manager of Google Play Sam Bright on Play Store curation, AI, quality gap between Android apps and their iOS counterparts, more (Daniel Bader/Android Police)

Financial Times: PitchBook: VCs in the US have $311B in unspent cash, as they shy away from risky bets and focus on dividends, after raising a record $435B between 2020 and 2022  —  US venture capitalists are sitting on a… Read More »PitchBook: VCs in the US have $311B in unspent cash, as they shy away from risky bets and focus on dividends, after raising a record $435B between 2020 and 2022 (Financial Times)

Bloomberg: A look at J.E.T, a chip equipment maker whose shares rose 166% since its September 2023 Tokyo IPO, as it eyes subsidy-fueled demand to lower reliance on China  —  – J.E.T. eyes subsidy-fueled demand to lower reliance on China … Read More »A look at J.E.T, a chip equipment maker whose shares rose 166% since its September 2023 Tokyo IPO, as it eyes subsidy-fueled demand to lower reliance on China (Bloomberg)

Simon Sharwood / The Register: ICANN proposes .INTERNAL, a new TLD available for internal use but never plumbed into the global DNS, taking on the same role as 192.168.x.x IPv4 bloc  —  The plan is to keep the world at… Read More »ICANN proposes .INTERNAL, a new TLD available for internal use but never plumbed into the global DNS, taking on the same role as 192.168.x.x IPv4 bloc (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal: Reed Hastings donates $1.1B worth of his Netflix shares, or ~40% of his stake, to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a popular charity among tech founders  —  Reed Hastings donates to foundation with $10 billion… Read More »Reed Hastings donates $1.1B worth of his Netflix shares, or ~40% of his stake, to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a popular charity among tech founders (Theo Francis/Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: X has lifted its ban on Taylor Swift searches, and says it “will continue to be vigilant”, following the spread of explicit AI-generated images of the singer  —  Social-media site restricted queries for the singer’s name after… Read More »X has lifted its ban on Taylor Swift searches, and says it “will continue to be vigilant”, following the spread of explicit AI-generated images of the singer (Wall Street Journal)

The Information: Source: Alphabet execs told staffers at its moonshot X lab that the company will not convert promising investment projects into Other Bets subsidiaries in 2024  —  Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is cutting back its commitment to… Read More »Source: Alphabet execs told staffers at its moonshot X lab that the company will not convert promising investment projects into Other Bets subsidiaries in 2024 (The Information)