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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
COVID-19's impact on tech this week: cancelled conferences, supply chain and sales disruptions, murky business outlook for online travel firms, and rise of Zoom — Companies are telling investors that sales are slumping because of the outbreak, conferences are being canceled, and workers are being instructed not to travel.
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| Polygon: |
Organizers announce that this year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed from March to summer amid COVID-19 concerns — Sony, EA, Activision Blizzard, Unity, and Epic Games have all withdrawn due to COVID-19 concerns — This year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Union of Concerned Scientists study: ride-hailing trips today result in an estimated 69% more climate pollution on average than the trips they displace — Union of Concerned Scientists recommends more electric cars and pooled trips — Uber and Lyft have weathered criticism about pollution …
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
The Intuit-Credit Karma deal, driven by the latter's stash of user data, poses an important test case for US regulators' budding interest in data-driven mergers — Antitrust regulators say they're interested in data-driven mergers. Intuit's $7 billion deal to buy Credit Karma will show how serious they are.| Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Amazon to launch a food delivery service in India in March, charging restaurants commissions of 10-15%, about half of what Swiggy and Zomato charge — The food delivery platform is open to own employees for now, pilots underway across five high-density pin codes in Bengaluru
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets — Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors' best brags. — A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Elementor, a WordPress-focused graphical website building platform, raises $15M from Lightspeed Venture Partners — WordPress has become so ubiquitous, it's easy to forget that it still drives a huge ecosystem of startups that build tools and services around the platform.
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| Rajiv Rao / ZDNet: |
How Apple, after languishing in India for years, became the fastest growing premium smartphone brand in the country in 2019 — For the first time in its brief history in India, the premium brand has gone all out to woo customers with big price cuts, and thanks to local manufacturing efforts, it has worked wonders.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
A look at top Democratic presidential candidates' stances on tech issues like breaking up Big Tech, digital privacy, encryption and backdoors, and Section 230 — - Voters from 14 states and one U.S. territory will decide which Democratic candidate to support for the presidential nomination on Super Tuesday.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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| eMarketer: |
eMarketer: in the US, TikTok is expected to grow 21.9% YoY to 45.4M MAU in 2020, down from 97.5% growth in its breakout year of 2019 — More than 20% of social users will use TikTok this year … After nearly doubling its US user base last year, growth for TikTok will slow in the coming years …
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| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
ZoomInfo, which operates a cloud market intelligence platform for sales and marketing teams, files to raise around $500M in an IPO — ZoomInfo Technologies is the latest heavily funded SaaS player to publicly file for an IPO. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
K Health, whose AI-powered primary care app lets patients in 47 US states chat with doctors, raises $48M Series C, bringing its total raised to $97M — K Health, a primary care consultant powered by artificial intelligence, announced this morning it has raised a $48 million Series C round.
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