Uber loses its license to operate in London after authorities discovered that 14K+ trips were taken with uninsured drivers
Ride-hailing service to continue while it appeals against Transport for London decision — Uber has lost its licence to operate private hire vehicles in London …
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps …
Sir Tim Berners-Lee launches Contract for the Web, backed by 150+ organizations including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and EFF to safeguard the web from abuse
Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity
eBay to sell StubHub to Swiss ticket resale marketplace Viagogo for about $4.05B in cash
- The sale is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2020, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. — Tickets are offered for sale through StubHub in Chicago, I...
T-Mobile says it suffered a data breach that affected over one million customers, exposing their names, billing addresses, phone numbers, and more
T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach affecting more than a million of its customers, whose personal data (but no financial or password data) was exposed to a malicious actor.
Transcribers for Rev say they are exposed to troubling material, including violent police recordings and descriptions of child abuse, often with no warning
Violent police recordings, descriptions of child abuse, and graphic medical videos have appeared without warning, transcribers say Tweets: @russellbrandom and @kerrymflynn Tweets: Russell Brandom / @r...
Red Hat's big sale, disappointing exits of Hadoop-based startups and Pivotal show how public clouds like AWS affect business models of open source-focused firms
TL;DR: If the cloud didn't eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects?
India-based financial services startup Paytm raises $1B led by T. Rowe Price, valuing the company at ~$16B; Paytm has raised more than $3.3B to date
Paytm said on Monday it has raised $1 billion in a new financing round as the Noida-headquartered firm, which once dominated …
E-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd raises $58M led by Spectrum Equity, bringing its total raised to $106M
Digital reading subscription service Scribd has raised a $58 million round of funding led by Spectrum Equity. The new funding round brings the total amount of money raised by Scribd to $106 million.
Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, Iran show bitcoin's limitations, as governments cut off internet, disrupting access to global exchanges and limiting liquidity
Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild. Tweets: @coindesk , @hugohanoi , @la__cuen , @patestevao , @globalmeshlabs , @pa...
TookiTaki, which provides AI-based financial compliance software, raises $11.7M in additional Series A funding, bringing its total Series A to $19.2M
TookiTaki, a startup that develops machine learning-based financial compliance software, announced today it has raised a $11.7 million …
Huawei sues for defamation in Paris after a researcher, broadcast journalist, and telco expert say on TV that it spies against the West and is state controlled
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Inside the collapse of Quadriga crypto exchange, as law enforcement, accountants, and Reddit sleuths try to figure out if it was a legit operation or a scam
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Detectify, which offers a vulnerability scanner powered by a network of ethical hackers, raises €21M led by Balderton Capital
Detectify, the Sweden born cybersecurity startup that offers a website vulnerability scanner powered by the crowd, has raised €21 million in further funding.
Carousell, SE Asia's biggest classifieds site, to merge with Telenor's 701Search; Telenor will invest $20M and have 32% stake in merged company valued at $850M+
Singapore's startup darling — is a part of the global classifieds battle Naspers is waging with eBay and others http://atr.asiatechreview.com/ ...
Interview with Stephen Wolfram about the future of Wolfram|Alpha, how programming needs to evolve, Wolfram Language as a “computational language”, and more
Nick Heath / TechRepublic : Tweets: @techrepublic and @techrepublic Tweets: @techrepublic : The brains behind Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language talks about how programming language...
GoExpedi, an ecommerce platform for the oil and gas industry, raises $25M Series B, less than an year after raising $8M Series A
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Capitolis, a collaboration platform for financial institutions that helps them find the best sources of capital, raises $40M Series B
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Eden, a B2B workplace management platform that connects office managers with service providers in 25 markets including Berlin and London, raises $25M Series B
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch : Tweets: @sameerpatel Tweets: Sameer Patel / @sameerpatel : What a great great idea for a marketplace. https://twitter.com/...
Southeast Asian payments startup 2C2P, which works with airlines, travel companies, and online shopping malls, raises $52M
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Profile of China-based Wingtech, the world's largest ODM for smartphones, which has shipped 51M units in H1 2019 for clients like Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi
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ColdQuanta, which uses ultracold atom tech, where atoms are cooled using lasers to manufacture components for quantum computing, raises $16.75M in seed funding
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