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Sources: Apple dropped plan to encrypt backups of devices in iCloud about two years ago, after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices …
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Uber has agreed to sell Uber Eats in India to Zomato for 9.99% share in the company; all delivery drivers and basic customer information to be transferred over — The ride-hailing giant agreed to sell Uber Eats in India to rival Zomato, continuing its recent efforts to exit money-losing businesses.
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Disney+ to launch on 24 March in the UK and other parts of Europe, a week earlier than originally planned, for £5.99 per month or £59.99 per year — The new streaming service Disney+ is to launch on 24 March in the UK, a week earlier than originally planned.
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| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based Home, which acts as a middleman in the property rental market, connecting owners and tenants, raises €11M Series A — Home, the Berlin-based startup transforming property rental, has raised an €11 million Series A round from Capnamic, EQT Ventures, FJ Labs, and Redalpine.
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Uber is testing a feature letting drivers in three California cities set fares on rides from the airport; drivers can charge up to 5x the Uber fare — Move gives drivers more control in response to state's gig-economy law — SAN FRANCISCO— Uber Technologies Inc. UBER 1.30% … | Reuters: |
France has agreed to suspend this year's digital tax until the end of 2020 as part of trade negotiations with the US — PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he had a “great discussion” with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris … | William Feuer / CNBC: |
A look at Personio, a cloud-based software platform for HR and recruiting, which raised a $75M Series C led by Accel at a ~$500M valuation — - Hanno Renner, 29, was a yacht skipper while at college in Munich and began Personio with a group of three friends.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Soft Robotics, maker of gripping and sorting machines for warehouses that use a vision system and AI to report real-time metrics, raises $23M Series B — Soft Robotics raised another $23 million to continue developing its solutions to the seemingly intractable problems gripping and sorting machines face.
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| Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times: |
If Google wants to reach its health care goals, it needs to convince health systems like Ascension to give up their patient data and ease patient concerns — Google hopes that one day it might be able to save your life. As the tech giant moves deeper into healthcare …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French startup Qonto, a challenger, or neobank, for B2B use cases, raises $115M Series C led by Tencent and DST Global — French startup Qonto has raised a $115 million Series C funding round led by Tencent and DST Global. Today's news comes a few days after another French fintech startup Lydia raised some money from Tencent.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Jeff Bezos pledges to eliminate single-use plastic from Amazon's India fulfillment network by June 2020, and to add 10K electric rickshaws to its delivery fleet — Jeff Bezos is having quite a trip in India — but not everyone is pleased with his first visit in more than five years.
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| Sumukh Rao / Technology Personalized: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 720G, 662, and 460 chipsets with support for Wi-Fi 6 and NavIC, India's homegrown GPS — Qualcomm has introduced three new Mobile Platforms today for smartphones at an event in New Delhi, India, and the new chipsets cater to three different segments right …
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