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Federal judge grants a preliminary injunction against a Trump administration order that would have banned TikTok from US app stores — The government said a ban would address its national security concerns. But lawyers for its owner said a ban would be “no different from the government locking the doors to a public forum.”
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Uber wins legal fight to regain London license as a judge overturned a ban by the city's transport regulator TfL — - Transport for London stripped Uber of its license for a second time last year, citing a “pattern of failures” that had put passengers at risk.
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Singapore is the first country to use facial verification in a national identity scheme, to be part of SingPass for access to government and business services — Singapore will be the first country in the world to use facial verification in its national identity scheme.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn rolls out its own version of Stories and adds Zoom, BlueJeans, and Teams video integrations as part of wider redesign — With the employment market remaining sluggish as the world continues to struggle with COVID-19, a company that has built its popular businesses largely around recruitment …
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Amazon says its Prime Day annual sale will take place on October 13 and 14 after the original summer date was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic — - Amazon Prime Day will take place on Oct. 13 and 14 this year, the company announced Monday. — The company postponed its biggest shopping … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Parts of Amazon's law enforcement request portal that are visible on the web provide a rare glimpse into how the company handles law enforcement requests — Anyone can access portions of a web portal, used by law enforcement to request customer data from Amazon, even though the portal … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Philippines payment processing startup PayMongo raises $12M Series A led by Stripe, says it has processed almost $20M in payments since launching — Stripe has led a $12 million Series A round in Manila-based online payment platform PayMongo, the startup announced today.| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Kioxia Holdings, the chipmaker spun out of Toshiba in 2018, calls off $16B IPO after saying that export restrictions on Huawei were hurting its business — U.S.-China tech battle hits Japanese company owned by Bain Capital-led group — A Japanese semiconductor maker called off … | Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg: |
China's Sina Corp., which operates Weibo, agrees to go private in a $2.59B deal, after an entity led by its chairman boosted its offer to $43.30 per share — Sina Corp. agreed to go private after an entity led by its chairman, Charles Chao, boosted its offer for the Chinese social media company to $43.30 a share in cash.| New York Times: |
Amazon, which had struggled to gain a foothold in Italy, benefited from a shift to online shopping during pandemic lockdown as 75% of Italians shopped online — The e-commerce giant had struggled to gain a foothold in a society that prefers to shop in person, with cash, but now Italians are hooked on online shopping.
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Noyo, which provides APIs that link health insurance companies, brokers, employers, and more, raises $12.5M Series A led by Costanoa Ventures and Spark Capital — This morning, Noyo, a startup that provides APIs that link players in the health insurance space, announced that it has closed a $12.5 million Series A round of funding.
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A look at the Zhenhua database, created by a Chinese tech company with government ties, that compiles personal info on ~2.4M people globally, most from the US — Anne-Marie Brady, a global fellow at the Wilson Center, is a professor at New Zealand's University of Canterbury and executive editor of The Polar Journal.
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