Sources: Apple dropped plan to encrypt backups of devices in iCloud about two years ago, after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices …
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.
Disney+ to launch on 24 March in the UK and other parts of Europe, a week earlier than originally planned, for £5.99 per month or £59.99 per year
The new streaming service Disney+ is to launch on 24 March in the UK, a week earlier than originally planned.
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 720G, 662, and 460 chipsets with support for Wi-Fi 6 and NavIC, India's homegrown GPS
Qualcomm has introduced three new Mobile Platforms today for smartphones at an event in New Delhi, India, and the new chipsets cater to three different segments right …
Source: Uber is testing a feature letting drivers in three California cities set fares on rides from the airport; drivers can charge up to 5x the Uber fare
Move gives drivers more control in response to state's gig-economy law — SAN FRANCISCO— Uber Technologies Inc. UBER 1.30% …
France has agreed to suspend this year's digital tax until the end of 2020 as part of trade negotiations with the US
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he had a “great discussion” with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris …
Federal court reverses $10.1M judgment against Nintendo in case involving the Wii remote, calling iLife Technologies' patent for motion sensing tech “abstract”
Judge says 1999 patent idea was too “abstract” to be protected in the first place. — Remember the Nintendo Wii?
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
history is full of examples of how technology's virtues aren't guaranteed https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... Andrus Ansip / @ansip_eu : Existing rules such as Europe's #GDPR can serve as a...
Berlin-based Home, which acts as a middleman in the property rental market, connecting owners and tenants, raises €11M Series A
Home, the Berlin-based startup transforming property rental, has raised an €11 million Series A round from Capnamic, EQT Ventures, FJ Labs, and Redalpine.
If Google wants to reach its health care goals, it needs to convince health systems like Ascension to give up their patient data and ease patient concerns
Google hopes that one day it might be able to save your life. As the tech giant moves deeper into healthcare … Tweets: @stenderworld , @tomvalletti , @went1955 , @matzkinhealth , @tim , and @financia...
Snyk, which helps developers find vulnerabilities in their open source apps, raises $150M at a $1B+ valuation, led by New York-based private equity firm Stripes
Snyk, a cybersecurity platform that helps developers find vulnerabilities in their open source applications …
Samsung appoints Taemoon Roh to head its smartphone division, taking over from Koh Dong-Jin to run the world's largest mobile devices business
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Flutterwave, which provides payment services for companies operating in Africa, raises $35M Series B, led by Greycroft and eVentures, and partners with Worldpay
San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech startup Flutterwave has raised a $35 million Series B round and announced a partnership with Worldpay FIS for payments in Africa.
Dapp.com 2019 report: total volume of dapps reached $10B from 9 leading blockchains, up 58.5% YoY, and the number of active dapp users doubled YoY to 3.11M
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
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Jeff Bezos pledges to eliminate single-use plastic from Amazon's India fulfillment network by June 2020, and to add 10K electric rickshaws to its delivery fleet
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AppsFlyer, a mobile ad attribution platform, raises $210M Series D led by General Atlantic at a $1.6B valuation
AppsFlyer said Tuesday it closed a $210 million Series D round, bringing the app measurement firm's total funding to more than $293 million since 2014. It had previously raised a $56 million Series C...
Intezer, which identifies and tracks new malware by analyzing existing malware to detect code reuse and coding similarities, raises $15M Series B
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
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
Thomas Claburn / The Register : Tweets: @satish_babu , @markterrel , and @carnage4life Tweets: Satish Babu / @satish_babu : A survey of four million #FOSS applications reveals that the use of permiss...
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
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French startup Qonto, a challenger, or neobank, for B2B use cases, raises $115M Series C led by Tencent and DST Global
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Report: European regulators have imposed €114M in fines for data breaches since GDPR came into force in 2018; France's €50M fine against Google is the biggest
Douglas Busvine / Reuters :
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
Kyle Wiggers / 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
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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