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Xiaomi closes just below the IPO price on the first day of trading in Hong Kong after pricing IPO at the bottom of the range at $2.17/share and raising $4.7B — - The company's Hong Kong offering was priced at 17 Hong Kong dollars, which was on the low end of the expected range.
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
How China's drive for a surveillance state is fueling an investment boom in surveillance firms and can instill mass obedience regardless of the tech's efficacy — ZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.
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| Foeke Postma / bellingcat: |
Analysis: fitness tracking website Polar Flow exposed info like names and home addresses of ~6500 military, FBI, NSA, and other staffers at 200+ sensitive sites — Polar, a fitness app, is revealing the homes and lives of people exercising in secretive locations, such as intelligence agencies … | Timehop: |
Timehop says it detected a network intrusion on July 4 that led to a data breach of names, email addresses, and some phone numbers affecting ~21M users — On July 4, 2018, Timehop experienced a network intrusion that led to a breach of some of your data. We learned of the breach …
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Timehop, TechCrunch, eWeek, Gizmodo, The Next Web, The Hacker News, MacRumors, 9to5Google, Motherboard, Naked Security, KnowTechie, ZDNet, The Mac Observer, Inquirer, Forbes, Business Insider, CNET, Android Central, The Register, BetaNews, Neowin, and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
Algorithms increasingly replace highly-skilled white-collar workers, as seen in online fashion and retail industries and the ascendance of firms like Stitch Fix — One of the best-selling T-shirts for the Indian e-commerce site Myntra is an olive, blue and yellow colorblocked design.
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| Music Business Worldwide: |
Tencent says it has received approval from Hong Kong stock exchange for an IPO of its Tencent Music Entertainment subsidiary in US — Chinese media giant Tencent has confirmed that Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) is set to be spun-off via a public listing in the United States.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Oasis Labs raises $45M in an ICO pre-sale from a16zcrypto, Accel, and others to create an AWS-like blockchain-based cloud computing platform for smart contracts — A team of top security researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and MIT have come together to launch …
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VentureBeat, MIT Technology Review, CoinDesk, CoinSpeaker, PR Newswire India, and PE Hub Blog
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
How AMD stays within its x86 IP cross-licensing agreements with Intel yet enables Chinese firm Hygon to design and sell AMD Zen-based x86 server chips in China — Chinese-designed “Dhyana” x86 processors based on AMD's Zen microarchitecture are beginning to surface from Chinese chip producer Hygon.| Anna Nicolaou / CNBC: |
Sources: Apple Music had ~21.5M US subscribers as of last week while Spotify had ~22.5M; Apple's service is growing faster than Spotify in UK and Canada — Spotify's lead over Apple's music-streaming service in the US is narrowing, denting the air of invincibility around the recently floated pioneer.| Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it is building the world's largest smartphone factory in Noida, India with the capacity of 120M units per year — - Indian PM Modi, South Korea's Moon to visit Samsung facility — India is the fastest growing smartphone major market — Samsung Electronics Co. will open …
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Engadget, CNET, The Economic Times, Reuters, South China Morning Post, KnowTechie, Neowin, The Verge, and SamMobile. Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Index Ventures raises $1.65B for its two newest funds: $650M for its early-stage fund and $1B for its growth fund — Make way for more money into the startup investing pool: today, Index Ventures announced that it has closed a total of $1.65 billion in new funds — $1 billion that it plans …
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VentureBeat, New York Times, Index Ventures, and The Guardian
| Business Insider: |
Profile of Megvii, a Chinese AI firm which reportedly raised $460M in November for its Face++ facial recognition tech used by 300K developers in 150 countries — - Two Chinese startups, SenseTime and Megvii, are becoming the world leaders in real-world deployment of facial recognition software … Sponsor Posts
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