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Sources: Sequoia Capital China is about to raise $9B for four new funds, above its $8B+ target, the largest amount raised by a single China-focused VC firm — Sequoia Capital's Chinese affiliate is about to close $9 billion in fresh capital for four new funds, higher than its original target …
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Crypto lender and exchange Vauld pauses withdrawals, trading, and deposits and says it's exploring a restructuring, after users withdrew $197.7M+ since June 12 — Vauld, a Singapore-headquartered crypto lending and exchange startup, has suspended withdrawals, trading and deposits …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok abandons plans to expand its TikTok Shop live e-commerce tools to Europe and the US, following internal problems and a lack of traction — Chinese-owned social media platform's foray into livestream shopping in the UK has struggled to gain traction
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Source: Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government content takedown orders through a judicial review, alleging abuse of power by officials — Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government orders to take down content, a source familiar with the matter said … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases a Chrome update for Windows to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, its fourth Chrome zero-day patch in 2022 — Google has released Chrome 103.0.5060.114 for Windows users to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited by attackers in the wild … | Financial Times: |
China is rapidly censoring news of the alleged Shanghai police data breach that exposed over 1B records; “data leak” and other terms are banned on Weibo — Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000| Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
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| Alexander Cornwell / Reuters: |
Dubai-based digital bank YAP has raised $41M as part of a Series A, and says it plans to expand into Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Ghana — YAP, a digital bank in the United Arab Emirates, said on Monday it had raised $41 million in funding and targeted raising another roughly $20 million to finance its expansion plans.
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent, Baidu, JD, and other Chinese tech giants agree to a “self-discipline initiative” for NFTs, including ID checks and avoiding secondary marketplaces — In a new ‘self-discipline initiative’, China's biggest tech firms agreed to enforce real-name authentication for NFT buyers …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits, which offers quantum-computing-as-a-service using its eight-qubit system, has raised a £38M Series A — Quantum computing has been making quantum leaps of progress in the last several years — going from theoretical concept to multiple testing environments … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU lawmakers pass the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, seeking to regulate US tech giants, but enforcement could be hamstrung by limited resources — EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in the power of tech giants such as Alphabet (GOOGL.O) …
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
A look at the EU Listing Act, expected in H2 2022, which aims to ease IPO rules for deep tech startups, help founders keep control after going public, and more — The European Union wants to increase the number of deep tech startups in Europe by attracting 45 billion euros ($47 billion) … | Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
CoinGecko: daily trading volumes at Indian crypto exchanges ZebPay, WazirX, CoinDCX have dropped 60%-87% after the 1% transaction tax became effective on July 1 — Warnings from Indian crypto exchanges that a controversial new transaction tax would erode trading are coming true, with volumes evaporating since the levy took effect.Sponsor Posts
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