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Bending Spoons made a striking debut on public markets today, surging forty percent on its first day of trading. The Milan-based company has built its business by acquiring faded but familiar tech brands — Evernote, Vimeo, Eventbrite, and AOL among them — and breathing new life into them. In a rough climate for software companies, that turnaround playbook is clearly resonating with investors.
Turning to memory chips, a new lawsuit is alleging that Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron coordinated to artificially inflate DRAM prices. The three companies together control the overwhelming majority of the global memory market, which makes the allegation of collusion particularly significant. For consumers and manufacturers who rely on affordable RAM, this case is one worth watching closely.
And Google is opening up its zero-knowledge proof technology to support age verification online. The approach allows a system to confirm that a user meets an age threshold without actually revealing their birthdate or any other personal detail. It is a rare example of a privacy tool that could satisfy both regulators demanding age assurance and advocates worried about data collection.
Those are the stories moving the needle today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
