How a change to US tax law Section 174, forcing amortization of software labor, led to higher tax bills, less hiring, more layoffs, IP moving abroad, and more
GitHub launches Copilot for Business with corporate licensing and policy controls for $19 per user per month, and claims it won't save or share companies' code
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Research: Australian startups raised ~$7.3B+ in 682 deals in 2021, up from ~$2.3B in 2020; 19% of investments went to startups with at least one female founder
but with amazing leaders like our very own @SalMetelerkamp blazing a trail, the future is looking much brighter. A big thank you to @Folklorevc & @nickbonyhady https://www.smh.com....
IBM debuts 127-qubit Eagle quantum processor coming to select members of the IBM Quantum Network in December, and previews next-gen IBM Quantum System Two
According to IBM, Eagle leverages new techniques that place control components on multiple physical levels while keeping qubits on a single layer.
Sources: China plans to propose rules that would ban companies with large amounts of sensitive consumer data from going public in the US
China's stock regulator plans to propose new rules that could thwart internet companies' plans to list in the U.S. — SINGAPORE—China plans to propose …
Apple's app tracking transparency pushes publishers like Zynga to acquire or build their own ad tech, creating first party walled gardens that Apple can't touch
Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo : Tweets: @carnage4life , @eric_seufert , @matthausk , @erosresmini , @eric_seufert , @skwilder , @basche42 , @benedictevans , @benedicteva...
Review: in 200+ charging docs filed in relation to the Capitol siege, 73 reference Facebook, 24 reference YouTube, 20 mention Instagram, and 8 mention Parler
but @RepRaskin and @TedLieu should use this visual. https://www.nytimes.com/... Cameron Joseph / @cam_joseph : “About 40 percent of the phones tracked near the rally stage on the N...
Rasa, which is building an open-source framework to build AI chatbots, raises $26M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz
As chatbots and other AI-based services like interactive voice apps continue to become more ubiquitous, a startup that's built software to help create and — critically …
Interviews and documents show Europe's GDPR rules have been stymied by a lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources, and tech companies stalling
> https://brave.com/... https://twitter.com/... Ian Brown / @1br0wn : Half of EU #GDPR enforcers have small budgets (under €5 million). EU governments have not given their GDPR enf...
India, which is increasingly trying to shelter local companies, has erected regulatory hurdles over the past year for how US tech firms operate in the country
New barriers make world's biggest untapped digital market a slog for Walmart, Facebook; taking cues from China's protectionism