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Sources: e-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise ~$200M in new funding at a $2B valuation; just three months ago the startup raised at a $300M valuation — E-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise around $200 million in new funding at a $2 billion valuation, according to multiple sources.
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| Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it's rolling out a feature to let users rate e-commerce businesses and may ban or reduce ads for those with poor feedback — New feature lets shoppers share their experiences; negative feedback could lead to bans — Facebook Inc. FB 1.29% is cracking down on e-commerce businesses …
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Internal document: Microsoft is planning for the next Xbox console release to arrive in 2020 — While Microsoft may have been founded as being a software company, there is no question about it that they are a hardware company too. With the Surface family, the Xbox, and peripherals … | Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Congress releases Facebook's written responses to follow-up questions from Mark Zuckerberg's April testimony; Facebook says it received 2,000+ questions — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered a lot of questions when he testified before Congress in April.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google disables inline installation for Chrome extensions, which let users install them on 3rd party sites; goes into effect for existing extensions in 3 months — Google today announced that Chrome will no longer support inline installation of extensions.
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| Josef Adalian / Vulture: |
Inside Netflix's original content efforts as it spends $8B this year: “It's 70 percent gut and 30 percent data”, says Ted Sarandos — “What do you think about gas in the tank for the long term?” asks Cindy Holland, Netflix's vice-president of original content.
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
A look at how the AT&T-Time Warner ruling might affect companies across the media and telecom industries, including Verizon, Comcast, Sprint, and T-Mobile — - Media companies will lose larger telecommunications companies as theoretical buyers if a deal isn't approved.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Large funding rounds for Bird and Lime suggest strong economics, which means the potential for building moats for dockless scooter startups are relatively weak — As I understand it, the proper way to open an article about electric scooters is to first state one's priors … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber unveils Uber Lite, a low-data app just 5MB in size for developing markets that shows maps only on request, coming to India first — “The next hundreds of millions of riders for us are going to come from outside of the United States", Uber's head of rider experience Peter Deng tells me.
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| Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal: |
Bipartisan group of senators move to stop Trump's deal to give ZTE a lifeline amid US export ban, by adding ZTE export ban as amendment to defense spending bill — White House sent top official to Capitol Hill to lobby against bipartisan effort to reverse pact to revive the Chinese telecommunications company
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Swedish video-based call-a-doctor service Kry raises $66M Series B led by Index Ventures to finance further expansion in Europe — Swedish telehealth startup Kry has closed a $66 million Series B funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Accel, Creandum, and Project A.
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Tech.eu, VentureBeat, and PE Hub Blog
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds shopping tags directly into Stories, so now users can tap a shopping bag icon to learn more about buying a particular item — Instagram's shoppable tags are about to pop up in Stories. The company first started testing the feature back in 2016 with a limited set of 20 partners.
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Android Police, CNBC, and Engadget
| Christina Rogers / Wall Street Journal: |
Argo AI, which received $1B from Ford and works on automated driving, says it has ~330 staff, up from under 12 last year, by hiring from Apple, Uber, and others — Equity stakes in a fast-growing startup and a link to a big auto maker are helping recruit engineers and robotics researchers| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Vietnam's new cybersecurity law raises concerns about restricting free speech, also requires foreign internet companies to store user data locally — Big tech firms including Google, Facebook and Twitter have expressed major concern after Vietnam's government passed a law that promises …
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Engadget, Reuters, CNET, VnExpress International, Amnesty International, Bloomberg, Committee to Protect …, Financial Times, and Associated Press. Tweets: @jonrussell
| Robert Triggs / Android Authority: |
USB Type-C has become a mess of compatibility issues, conflicting proprietary standards, and lacks sufficient consumer information to guide purchasing decisions — 6.6K — USB Type-C was billed as the solution for all our future cable needs, unifying power and data delivery with display … | Marina Lopes / Washington Post: |
How two-thirds of Brazil's population is using WhatsApp to undermine the country's traditional power structures like unions amid economic and political crises — SAO PAULO, Brazil — When Lazaro Rutino needs a break from hauling beef across Brazil in his truck, he swipes on his phone … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Translate expands offline translation support to 59 languages including Italian, Greek, Norwegian, and Swahili — Currently, when the Google Translate apps for iOS and Android has access to the internet, its translations are far superior to those it produces when it's offline.
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Sources: Chinese on-demand services provider Meituan Dianping plans IPO in Hong Kong to raise ~$6B at a $60B valuation, listing as soon as this month — - Company is said to consider selling about 10% stake in IPO — IPO would be another sign of rising Chinese technology mightSponsor Posts
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