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Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource, an SF-based machine learning training data company with a large workforce in East Africa, dies at 37 — The startup community has lost another moral leader today. — Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder …
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| Anshika Jain / Counterpoint Research: |
India's smartphone market surpassed the US, becoming the second-largest smartphone market globally, reaching 158M shipments in 2019, up 7% YoY — - realme (255%), Vivo (76%), Asus (67%) and OnePlus (29%) were the fastest-growing smartphone brands on an annual basis.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android, aims to start its partner program to pay creators “soon” — Two years after Vine's co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android.
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Appeals court reverses a lower court and reinstates a suit challenging constitutionality of sex-trafficking law FOSTA, finding plaintiffs have standing to sue — Judges Found Plaintiffs Have Standing to Sue — SAN FRANCISCO-A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FOSTA … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Unito, whose tool helps teams communicate between different workplace productivity software suites, raises $10.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners — Startup productivity tools have never been better, but that's led to employees being more passionate than ever about the tools that they want to use themselves.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Report: Samsung's upcoming foldable smartphone, possibly called Galaxy Z Flip, to use “Ultra Thin Glass” with a Dynamic AMOLED display underneath — Samsung is preparing to launch its second foldable smartphone next month, and if you can believe it, more leaks are coming out for the device.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
FloQast, a startup that sells accounting software, raises $40M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to over $90M — This morning FloQast, an LA-area startup, announced that it closed a $40 million Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners.
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KMWorld, FloQast, Accounting Today, FinSMEs, and Enterprise Times
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An in-depth look at facial recognition technology, with a primer on how it works, who is using it in the US, and how to avoid it online and in public — The controversial and nearly ever-present technology that could replace the fingerprint — From iPhones and Snapchat filters …
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| Sean O'Neill / Skift: |
Payments processor Wex to acquire travel focused B2B payments services providers eNett and Optal for a combined $1.7B — With this deal, Wex now becomes a powerhouse in assisting business-to-business travel payments worldwide. The deal also gives cash to seller Travelport …
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Business Wire, PYMNTS.com, Barron's Online, The Company Dime, Australian Financial Review, PhocusWire, and Reuters. Tweets: @skift
| Times of India: |
India-based Pine Labs, which offers POS services, raises an undisclosed round from Mastercard; source: the $100M-$150M round values the company at $1.5B-$1.6B — BENGALURU: Point-of-sales (PoS) services provider Pine Labs has raised a new round of funding from the global card network major Mastercard.| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
An overview of nine leading US presidential candidates' positions on Big Tech, with Warren and Sanders leading the charge to break up big tech companies — Republican President Donald Trump's administration has also stepped up its scrutiny of Big Tech, conducting a wide-ranging probe … | Chris Smith / Trusted Reviews: |
UK's science minister Chris Skidmore says the UK won't implement EU's Copyright Directive, which includes Article 13, after the country leaves the EU — One of the most intriguing aspects of Britain's departure from the European Union will be which elements of EU law will be dropped and retained … Sponsor Posts
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