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Uber loses its license to operate in London after authorities discovered that 14K+ trips were taken with uninsured drivers — Ride-hailing service to continue while it appeals against Transport for London decision — Uber has lost its licence to operate private hire vehicles in London …
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| Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / ICIJ: |
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats — A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps …
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| Ian Sample / The Guardian: |
Sir Tim Berners-Lee launches Contract for the Web, backed by 150+ organizations including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and EFF to safeguard the web from abuse — Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based financial services startup Paytm raises $1B led by T. Rowe Price, valuing the company at ~$16B; Paytm has raised more than $3.3B to date — Paytm said on Monday it has raised $1 billion in a new financing round as the Noida-headquartered firm, which once dominated …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile says it suffered a data breach that affected over one million customers, exposing their names, billing addresses, phone numbers, and more — T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach affecting more than a million of its customers, whose personal data (but no financial or password data) was exposed to a malicious actor.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
E-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd raises $58M led by Spectrum Equity, bringing its total raised to $106M — Digital reading subscription service Scribd has raised a $58 million round of funding led by Spectrum Equity. The new funding round brings the total amount of money raised by Scribd to $106 million.
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| Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics: |
Red Hat's big sale, disappointing exits of Hadoop-based startups and Pivotal show how public clouds like AWS affect business models of open source-focused firms — TL;DR: If the cloud didn't eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects?
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| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, Iran show bitcoin's limitations, as governments cut off internet, disrupting access to global exchanges and limiting liquidity — Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild.
Tweets: @coindesk, @hugohanoi, @la__cuen, @patestevao, @globalmeshlabs, @paulharwood01, @randybrito, @mayazi, and @edadoun
| Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg: |
Huawei sues for defamation in Paris after a researcher, broadcast journalist, and telco expert say on TV that it spies against the West and is state controlled — - Claim it's controlled by the Chinese state is false, it says — The company is seeking to sell 5G equipment in Europe
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Detectify, which offers a vulnerability scanner powered by a network of ethical hackers, raises €21M led by Balderton Capital — Detectify, the Sweden born cybersecurity startup that offers a website vulnerability scanner powered by the crowd, has raised €21 million in further funding.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Carousell, SE Asia's biggest classifieds site, to merge with Telenor's 701Search; Telenor will invest $20M and have 32% stake in merged company valued at $850M+ — - The equity and cash deal gives Telenor 32% in combined company — Telenor's 701Search has business in Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Southeast Asian payments startup 2C2P, which works with airlines, travel companies, and online shopping malls, raises $52M — - IFC, Cento Ventures, Arbor Ventures join the funding round — 2C2P is tapping into the region's burgeoning payments marketSponsor Posts
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