Todd Spangler Variety: TikTok says it is running a limited scale test of an ad free subscription plan in a non US market, but declines to reveal the market and the price TikTok is exploring a new way to make money: The popular video app has kicked off a limited scale test of a monthly...

   Sylvia Varnham O’Regan The Information: Source: Instagram seeks to revive interest in Threads by meeting with creators, working to make Threads a place for real time updates on big events, and more Three months ago, Threads, Meta Platforms’ answer to Twitter, was the hottest social media app...

   Zack Whittaker TechCrunch: Filing: Virginia based cybersecurity startup IronNet, which was founded in by an ex NSA director and raised over M, has shut down and laid off staff IronNet, a once promising cybersecurity startup founded by a former NSA director and funded by cyber and...

   Wall Street Journal: Sources: ByteDance plans a buyback from employees at a . B valuation, down YoY, and made B in operating profit in , but revenue growth slowed Social media company reported an operating profit of more than billion as its valuation fell by about

   Billy Perrigo TIME: Sources: at Foxconn’s Sriperumbudur factory, key to Apple’s pivot to India, issues persist, like disciplinary wage docking and poorer conditions for contractors Set back from a dusty highway in South India, three newly completed factory buildings rise up behind a black...

   CNBC: Documents and sources undermine Flexport founder Ryan Petersen’s claims that CEO Dave Clark overspent, overhired, and overpromised before being forced to resign Immediately following Dave Clark’s abrupt ouster as CEO of Flexport, founder Ryan Petersen said the company was hiring too...

   Kyle Wiggers TechCrunch: While Adobe, Getty Images, Stability AI, and YouTube have pledged to share some generative AI profits with creators, none have shared specific payout amounts As tech companies begin to monetize generative AI, the creators on whose work it is trained are asking for...

   Wall Street Journal: US v. Google: Satya Nadella says Google cemented its search dominance via default search deals with Apple and he may have been overenthusiastic about ChatGPT Satya Nadella says it will take more than ChatGPT to check Google’s advantage in internet search WASHINGTON...

   Todd Spangler Variety: Paris Hilton and her company : Media sign a partnership with X to create four original video content programs per year to promote X’s Live Shopping product Paris Hilton is getting her X on. The influencer and entrepreneur who has . million followers on X .....

   Aamir Siddiqui Android Authority: TikTok is testing an ad free monthly subscription plan For . per month in the testing phase, users will be able to enjoy an ad free TikTok experience. TL;DR Code within the TikTok app indicates that TikTok is testing an ad free monthly...

   Dean Takahashi VentureBeat: Q A with Intel EVP and GM of Data Center and AI Group Sandra Rivera on the metaverse, competing with Nvidia, brain like architectures, generative AI, and more Intel threw a lot of information at us a couple of weeks ago at its Intel Innovation event in San...

   Emma Roth The Verge: What to expect from the Made by Google event on October : the Pixel and Pixel Pro, the Pixel Watch, Android ’s release, and more Google is gearing up to launch a new lineup of Pixel products during its upcoming Made by Google event.

   Monica Chin The Verge: Google launches Chromebook Plus, a premium Chromebook category with qualifying specs like a p webcam, a p IPS display, GB of RAM, and GB of storage Google has introduced Chromebook Plus, a new certification that’s meant to help shoppers identify high quality...

   Katie Tarasov CNBC: A profile of New York based GlobalFoundries, spun out of AMD in , which makes essential nm chips and above for image sensors, power management, and more WATCH NOW How GlobalFoundries rose to be the world’s third biggest chip foundry

   Reuters: Vertex, a SPAC backed by Singapore’s Temasek, plans to acquire live streaming service LIVE for M; LIVE had revenue of . M in and is profitable Singapore’s Vertex Technology Acquisition Corp VTAC VERT.SI will buy live streaming platform LIVE Inc for up to S . ...