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Sources: eBay is in advanced talks to sell its classified ads business to Norway's Adevinta for ~$8B — Deal could value eBay unit at roughly $8 billion or more — EBay Inc. EBAY -0.89% is in advanced talks to sell its classified-ads business to Norway's Adevinta AS ADE -0.69% A … | Phillip Inman / The Guardian: |
Sources: TikTok halts talks with UK government to build the HQ for its non-China business in London, with British ban on Huawei seen as a factor — Video-sharing app suspends building plans, with British ban on Huawei 5G kit seen as factor — The Chinese social media firm TikTok has pulled …
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Shanghai's year-old STAR market is now second only to Nasdaq in value of IPOs and secondary listings, attracting 17.3% of total issuance, surpassing Hong Kong — Surging debuts on ‘domestic Nasdaq’ lure investors and bolster China's strategic aims — SHANGHAI — Pan Jianwei …
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Sources say plans to remake GE as a software powerhouse were scuttled by employee confusion and delusions about what it would take to reposition the company — The industrial giant hoped to remake itself as a software powerhouse. Here's what went wrong. — In early 2014 …
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In 2019, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were collectively granted ~27,000 H-1B visas, over 30% of total visas available to private companies — Five tech companies use nearly 30,000 H1-B visas, while over 50% of graduate STEM degrees are earned by international students
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TileDB, which aims to simplify data management across industries through its technology that was spun out of MIT and Intel Labs, raises $15M Series A — TileDB, a startup headquartered in Cambridge that aims to simplify data management across industries, has brought in $15 million in Series A funding.
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Analysis of why the PACT Act is a far better approach to reforming CDA 230 than the EARN IT Act, even with its shortcomings and need for improvement — Alex Feerst, one of the great thinkers about Internet content moderation, has a revealing metaphor about the real-world work involved.
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
SMBs make up 70% of the 5,384 companies certified under EU-US Privacy Shield and face the biggest challenges in complying with the decision that struck it down — Tech companies across the U.S. are scrambling to figure out how they can remain in compliance with international privacy laws …
Tweets: @accessnow and @tconnellyrte
| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Gem, which integrates with LinkedIn to help automate data collection and follow-up correspondence with job candidates, raises $37M Series B led by Greylock — Steve Bartel is no stranger to building teams. He joined Dropbox when the company had only two dozen employees, and acted as a hiring manager as it flew past 1,000 employees.| STAT: |
Many hospitals and clinics are introducing AI-powered decision support tools, often novel and unproven, but most patients are unaware of them — Since February of last year, tens of thousands of patients hospitalized at one of Minnesota's largest health systems have had their discharge …
Tweets: @rebeccadrobbins, @statnews, @kncukier, @katecrawford, @mkaplanpmp, and @covidblk
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gyant, which provides AI-enabled remote patient-doctor engagement and symptom checking tools for hospitals and healthcare providers, raises $13.6M Series A — Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB's AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. — Gyant, whose AI-enabled health platform …
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| Arno Schuetze / Reuters: |
Teamviewer has agreed to acquire Ubimax, which makes AR software and wearable computing devices, for €136.5M — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German software company Teamviewer (TMV.DE) has agreed to acquire peer Ubimax to expand its offering in augmented reality and internet of things, it said on Wednesday.
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