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Uber has agreed to sell Uber Eats in India to Zomato for 9.99% share in the company; all delivery drivers and basic customer information to be transferred over — The ride-hailing giant agreed to sell Uber Eats in India to rival Zomato, continuing its recent efforts to exit money-losing businesses.
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| Sundar Pichai / Financial Times: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is too important not to be regulated and there are real concerns about the potential negative consequences of AI — The writer is chief executive of Alphabet and Google — Growing up in India, I was fascinated by technology. Each new invention changed my family's life in meaningful ways.
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| William Feuer / CNBC: |
A look at Personio, a cloud-based software platform for HR and recruiting, which raised a $75M Series C led by Accel at a ~$500M valuation — - Hanno Renner, 29, was a yacht skipper while at college in Munich and began Personio with a group of three friends.
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Soft Robotics, maker of gripping and sorting machines for warehouses that use a vision system and AI to report real-time metrics, raises $23M Series B — Soft Robotics raised another $23 million to continue developing its solutions to the seemingly intractable problems gripping and sorting machines face.
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Research: Opera, known for its web browser, allegedly issues predatory loans in Kenya, Nigeria, and India via Android apps, likely violating Play Store policies — - Opera went public in mid-2018 based largely on prospects for its core browser business. Now, its browser market share is declining rapidly, down ~30% since its IPO.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
scoutbee, which develops and sells access to an AI-driven supplier discovery platform, raises $60M Series B, less than 9 months after raising a $12M Series A — Supplier discovery often isn't a walk in the park. According to a survey by Thomasnet, nearly 50% of buyers have worked …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Study of ~4M open-source packages: in 2019, 67% relied on use of permissive licenses like Apache, up 3%, while only 33% used restrictive “copyleft” licenses — Share all our code modifications with others? Think again, hippie — Permissive open-source software licenses continue …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
With a new IP licensing deal with Apple in place, Imagination Technologies' CEO and other execs discuss trends and their RISC-V open source hardware strategy — Imagination Technologies has been through a lot of change in the past few years. Founded in 1985, it became a real player … | Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung appoints Taemoon Roh to head its smartphone division, taking over from Koh Dong-Jin to run the world's largest mobile devices business — - Taemoon Roh will now steer the world's biggest mobile name — Samsung seeks to take the lead in 5G and foldables this year
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent's WeChat is inviting select users to try out a new short video publishing feature, to counter ByteDance Douyin app's dominance in China — - Inviting select users to try out new video publishing feature — ByteDance is increasingly luring users away from Tencent
Tweets: @pingroma
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sweden-based Tink, which offers open banking APIs, raises €90M co-led by Dawn Capital, HMI Capital, and Insight Partners at a post-money valuation of €415M — Tink, the European open banking platform, is disclosing €90 million in new funding, just 11 months … | Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
An unsecured facial-recognition database with info on thousands of children from 20 schools in China, half in areas with large Tibetan populations, found online — Information leak from facial-recognition database raises questions about school surveillance and cybersecurity in China
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