Techmeme: Samsung appoints Taemoon Roh to head its smartphone division, taking over from Koh Dong-Jin to run the world's largest mobile devices business (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)

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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:

Samsung appoints Taemoon Roh to head its smartphone division, taking over from Koh Dong-Jin to run the world's largest mobile devices business — - Taemoon Roh will now steer the world's biggest mobile name — Samsung seeks to take the lead in 5G and foldables this year

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Research: Opera, known for its web browser, allegedly issues predatory loans in Kenya, Nigeria, and India via Android apps, likely violating Play Store policies — GET OUR LATEST REPORTS DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX — Summary (NASDAQ: OPRA) — Opera went public in mid-2018 based largely on prospects for its core browser business.

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Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:

Sweden-based Tink, which offers open banking APIs, raises €90M co-led by Dawn Capital, HMI Capital, and Insight Partners at a post-money valuation of €415M — Tink, the European open banking platform, is disclosing €90 million in new funding, just 11 months …

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Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:

Sources: ByteDance plans a foray into games, building a team of 1,000+ and buying game studios and title distribution rights; first big games coming this spring — - The TikTok proprietor shows ambition beyond short-form video — Hiring spree includes industry veterans and local game studios

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Google announces a partnership with India's third-largest telecom operator Airtel to offer G Suite to SMBs — Google has inked a deal with India's third-largest telecom operator as the American giant looks to grow its cloud customer base in the key overseas market that is increasingly emerging …

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Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal:

An unsecured facial-recognition database with info on thousands of children from 20 schools in China, half in areas with large Tibetan populations, found online — Information leak from facial-recognition database raises questions about school surveillance and cybersecurity in China

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Douglas Busvine / Reuters:

Report: European regulators have imposed €114M in fines for data breaches since GDPR came into force in 2018; France's €50M fine against Google is the biggest — MUNICH (Reuters) - European regulators have imposed 114 million euros ($126 million) in fines for data breaches since …

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

With a new IP licensing deal with Apple in place, Imagination Technologies' CEO and other execs discuss trends and their RISC-V open source hardware strategy — Imagination Technologies has been through a lot of change in the past few years. Founded in 1985, it became a real player …

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eSSENTIAL Accessibility, an “Accessibility-as-a-Service” platform helping sites and apps be compliant with legal accessibility requirements, raises $16M — eSSENTIAL Accessibility, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of web accessibility-as-a-service, closed a $16m funding round.

David Z. Morris / Fortune:

Experts say Yandex, Russia's most-used search engine, is lagging behind Google and Bing in implementing controls to cut down on images of child sexual abuse — Experts say the spread of images of child sexual exploitation online has reached unprecedented levels, calling the situation a major social crisis.

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