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Uber's CEO, in an interview covering Saudi funding, called Khashoggi's murder a “mistake” which the Saudis are taking “seriously”; he later expressed regret — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told “Axios on HBO” that the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was “a mistake” …
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NY regulator launches a probe into Goldman Sachs after a viral tweet alleges gender discrimination in the Apple Card's algorithms when determining credit limits — - Tech entrepreneur alleged inherent bias in algorithms for card — The card is part of Goldman's new main street business lines
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Voi Technology, a Sweden-based scooter-sharing startup which operates in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, raises $85M Series B — Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, has raised an $85 million in Series B funding.| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
How Jersey City, one of the first municipalities to legalize Airbnb, passed strict short-term rent regulations despite a $4M+ Airbnb-funded opposition campaign — The company spent more than $4 million opposing new rules that crack down on short-term rentals, echoing its tactics in other cities.| New York Times: |
Tech companies have been failing to deal with child abuse images for years, and they still don't have a common standard for identifying illegal video content — How PhotoDNA Works — The uploaded image — in this instance a photograph of Dr. Farid — is turned into a square and colors are removed …
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Alipay and WeChat Pay now allow foreign visitors to link international credit cards to make mobile payments in mainland China — It has partnered up with Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Global Network, and JCB to allow foreign visitors to link their credit cards to WeChat Pay.| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Prosus-owned classifieds company OLX Group to acquire a majority stake in a global car marketplace Frontier Car Group with an investment of up to $400M — OLX Group, Prosus' Netherlands-based classifieds business, plans to acquire the majority of global car marketplace Frontier Car Group … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Roblox survey: 60% of teens rarely discuss inappropriate online behavior with parents, millenials are more aware of kids' digital lives than Gen X and boomers — 60% of teens rarely discuss inappropriate online behavior with parents, according to a study of online behavior by gaming world creator Roblox.
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| Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times: |
Germany-based digital payments group Wirecard to acquire Chinese online payments company AllScore Payment Services for €109M — Wirecard has agreed to acquire a Beijing-based payments group for up to €109m, the first purchase of a Chinese company by the controversial German fintech group.
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Barcelona-based on-demand delivery startup Glovo buys Poland's largest food delivery platform Pizza Portal for €30M — Barcelona-based Glovo, one of the world's fastest-growing on-demand delivery players, has announced today that it has acquired Poland's largest food delivery platform, Pizza Portal.| New York Times: |
In a letter, WhatsApp says 121 users in India were targeted with NSO spyware; 22 of the alleged targets were activists, journalists, and civil rights lawyers — Recent revelations in India show that the threat from the company's spyware to activists and journalists isn't limited to autocratic regimes.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
GitHub report: over 80% of repository contributions come from outside the US, ~44M repositories were created since October 2018, crossed 100M in November 2018 — GitHub's annual Octoverse report is out today. It found that Microsoft's Visual Studio Code or VSCode (19.1K), Azure Docs (14K) … Sponsor Posts
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