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Privacy advocates warn that innovation in satellite imagery is outpacing the ability to regulate the technology to prevent 24-hour real-time surveillance — Can privacy survive? — In 2013, police in Grants Pass, Oregon, got a tip that a man named Curtis W. Croft had been illegally growing marijuana in his backyard.| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Inside Facebook's elite “info ops” team, created in 2017 to respond to worst co-ordinated disinformation campaigns that state actors like Russian IRA can launch — Among the thousands of staff at Facebook, there is one group that talks about the company not as a social network, but as a battlefield.| Benjamin Pimentel / Business Insider: |
Application performance monitoring company Dynatrace files for IPO, posts $431M revenue for the fiscal year ending March 31, up 8% YoY, and a net loss of $116M — - Dynatrace filed papers for an IPO on Friday. The company aims to raise $300 million with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Citigroup as lead underwriters.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Ola says it has received a private hire vehicle license from Transport for London and plans to launch its ride-hailing service in the city in September — London's transport agency has given India's Ola the green light to launch its ride-hailing service in the UK capital …
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PwC: global podcast ad revenue to pass $1B by the end of 2019 and hit $1.4B by 2023, in part due to the advent of programmatic ads in podcasts — Podcast advertising revenue is expected to pass $1 billion by the end of 2019, according to figures from PwC's Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2019-2023.
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How researchers combined AI and manual counting techniques to estimate the size of the crowd at Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest on July 1 — Crowd estimates for Hong Kong's large pro-democracy protests have been a point of contention for years. The organizers and the police often release vastly divergent estimates.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
TrapX, which makes tools to thwart cyberattacks in real time via decoy databases and workstations, raises $18M Series C, bringing its total raised to ~$50M — San Jose-based cybersecurity company TrapX has secured $18 million in a round led by Ibex Investors, bringing its total raised to nearly $50 million.
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Japan-based Tier IV raises $100M+ Series A for its Autoware open-source self-driving software which, it says, is used by 200 organizations around the world — Tier IV, an open-source self-driving startup based in Japan, has raised “over $100 million” in a massive Series A funding round led by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance.| Mary Loritz / EU-Startups: |
Antwerp-based Unifly raises €17 million Series B for its software that enables drone tracking and management alongside commercial aviation traffic — By 2020, there will be about 20 million drones in circulation - compared to around 30,000 planes today.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Baidu says its DuerOS AI assistant install base has passed 400M devices and voice queries topped 3.6B; DuerOS was installed on 150M devices last November — A self-driving milestone and an AI accelerator partnership with Intel weren't the only high points of Baidu's Create conference in Beijing this week.| John Lippman / Valley News: |
New Hampshire-based Appcast, which makes programmatic job advertising tech, has sold an 85% stake of itself to Axel Springer's StepStone job portal for ~$79M — LEBANON — A 5½-year-old Upper Valley digital startup that has become a major player in helping national employers find job candidates …
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A look at Iran's efforts to tighten internet controls and curtail digital freedoms, as US sanctions and cyberattacks against the country escalate — The anxiety about cyberattacks and the perceived need for greater control in the wake of American economic sanctions has led to a loss of internet freedom in Iran.
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