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Self-driving car startup Drive.ai, once worth $200M and rumored to be an acquisition target of Apple's, will close Friday and lay off 90 workers, per filing — Apple has hired a handful of hardware and software engineers from Mountain View startup Drive.ai, part of a renewed effort by the iPhone … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
LinkedIn says it will change its algorithm to favor posts that cater to niche professional interests as opposed to elevating viral content — Linkedin will today announce algorithm changes made over the past 12-18 months to favor conversations in its Feed that cater to niche professional interests …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Amid Huawei ban, FedEx sues US over mandate that it monitor all shipments, saying it violates due process and is unfeasible on the scale the government desires — FedEx has already been accused of diverting Huawei's shipments, and it's not keen on dealing with more complaints.
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FTC and DOJ announce their latest crackdown on robocallers, taking 94 actions against several companies and people blamed for a recent wave of spam calls — Federal authorities have announced its latest crackdown on illegal robocallers — taking close to a hundred actions against several companies …
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Microsoft announces the OneDrive Personal Vault, which protects a folder with 2FA access, coming by the end of the year — Available to everyone by the end of the year — Microsoft is adding a new secured storage area to OneDrive where users can store more sensitive files.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A deep dive on which vendor may be responsible for a supply chain attack that Google said resulted in pre-installed malware on budget Android devices — Earlier this month, Google disclosed that a supply chain attack by one of its vendors resulted in malicious software being pre-installed on millions of new budget Android devices.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Cameo, which lets fans pay for personalized videos from celebrities, raises $50M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, reports suggest at a valuation of $300M — Instead of emailing a term sheet, Ilya Fushman paid $150 to have ‘Deep Blue Sea’ actor Michael Rapaport send the Cameo founders Steven Galanis …
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Carbon, a 3D-printing platform used by Ford, Adidas, and others, says it has raised $260M at a $2.4B valuation, following its 2017 Series D at a $1.7B valuation — Digital manufacturer and 3D printing poster child Carbon has raised $260 million in a growth round of funding co-led …
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French digital affairs minister says Facebook has agreed to share with judges the identity of French users suspected of hate speech, claiming it's a world first — PARIS (Reuters) - Facebook has agreed to hand over the identification data of French users suspected of hate speech on its platform to judges … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
New Silex malware has begun bricking several hundred poorly secured IoT devices per hour, using default credentials to log in and then wipe devices — Over 2,000 devices have been bricked in the span of a few hours. Attacks still ongoing. — A new strain of malware is wiping the firmware …
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Orderful, which aims to modernize supply chain management through an API-based cloud service, raises $10M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz — The march of globalization continues unabated, and with it comes a growing demand for companies of all sizes to communicate with and sell to each other … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Alienware co-founder Frank Azor says he is leaving Dell's gaming and XPS divisions; report suggests he will likely become AMD's first chief gaming officer — Frank Azor is taking up a new challenge after 21 years at Alienware — Frank Azor, the co-founder and public face of Alienware … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers say hackers have been stealing massive amounts of call records from over ten cell network providers worldwide to conduct targeted surveillance — At least 10 cell networks have been hacked over the past seven years — Security researchers say they have uncovered …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Showpad, a platform that helps salespeople prepare content and collateral for deals, raises $70M Series D co-led by Dawn Capital and Insight Partners — Sales teams have long turned to tech solutions to help improve how they source leads, develop relationships and close deals.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Uber to buy Seattle-based Mighty AI, which helps train computer vision models, to strengthen its self-driving car unit; Crunchbase: Mighty AI had raised $27.3M — Uber as soon as today expects to close its acquisition of Seattle-based “data annotation” firm Mighty AI in a bid to strengthen …
| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange Kraken, a regulated platform for spot and futures trading, raises $13.5M from 2,263 participants in an online round at a $4B+ valuation — Regulated spot and futures crypto exchange Kraken has completed a $13.5 million round of financing on Bnk To The Future (BF), an online investment platform.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based Open, which operates a “neo-bank” to help businesses automate their finances, raises $30M Series B at, a source says, a $150M valuation — Open, a Bangalore-based startup that operates a “neo-bank” to help businesses automate and run their finances … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Cobalt Robotics, which makes indoor security robots designed to work alongside human guards, raises $35M Series B; it raised a $13M Series A in March 2018 — Cobalt Robotics, a three-year-old startup building indoor security robots designed to work alongside human guards …
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iPads have the potential to become serious portable gaming devices, as Apple is adding Xbox and PlayStation controller support to iOS, tvOS, and iPadOS — iOS 13 and iPadOS take a big step toward gaming on the go — Apple is bringing Xbox and PlayStation 4 controller support to the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV this fall.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Israeli police arrest two brothers in connection with a multi-year crypto-focused phishing campaign and the 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange — Two brothers arrested in Israel last week have been linked to the massive 2016 Bitfinex hack. — Two Israeli brothers …
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