Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 870 with a similar design to the 865 and 865 Plus, clocked at 3.2GHz, making it about 10% faster than the 865
A slightly faster refresh of last year's Snapdragon flagship — Qualcomm has announced a new mobile phone processor: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 …
India asks WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy over “grave concerns” and questions why users in the EU are exempt from it
India has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy, posing a new headache to Facebook-owned service …
Electric autonomous vehicle startup Cruise raises $2B at a $30B valuation from Microsoft, GM, Honda, and others
Cruise has raised $2 billion in a new equity round that has pushed its valuation up to $30 billion and delivered Microsoft as an investor and partner.
Turkey bans ads on Twitter and Pinterest for not appointing local representatives as mandated by social media law, says their bandwidth will be cut 50% in April
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed …
Citrix acquires SaaS collaborative work management service Wrike for $2.25B in cash
Citrix has confirmed reports from earlier this week that it is buying enterprise-focused work management platform Wrike, in an all-cash deal worth $2.25 billion. — Founded in 2006, San Jose-based Wr...
Research: GDPR fines have risen ~40% to €159M in the past year vs. the first 20 months the law was in force; €272M has been levied since its introduction
Data protection penalties climbed 40% in the past year, according to research — Fines imposed under the General Data …
GitHub apologizes to the employee it fired for using the term “Nazis” on January 6, offers him his job back, and says the company's head of HR has resigned
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PPRO, which offers e-commerce players tools to support a variety of payment models, raises $180M at a $1B+ valuation
The pandemic hastened a shift of most commerce becoming e-commerce in the last year, and that has brought a new focus on startups that are helping to enable that process.
Samsung Electronics heir Jay Y. Lee was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bribery charges; Lee still faces a second prosecution related to succession
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China approves Cisco's purchase of telecom equipment maker Acacia, but says they must fulfill contracts with Chinese clients and keep supplying certain products
Conditional approval removes a regulatory barrier that nearly unraveled deal — China's antitrust regulator approved Cisco …
Content discovery platform Taboola rolls out Stories in beta, letting publishers add the format directly to their websites or mobile articles
Content can be added directly to publishers' websites or mobile articles — Content discovery platform Taboola became the latest platform …
Amateur digital sleuths have joined massive crowdsourcing efforts on social media to track violent Capitol rioters, passing the evidence to authorities
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Tech giants are bracing for tougher regulation under Biden's administration, as Democrats' calls for regulation have become more urgent after Capitol attacks
Geroman / @geromanat : Translation: We will censor what ever you order https://twitter.com/... Abe el Honesto / @nekoplanetd : @MitchWagner @doctorow So a bit like what happened in europe. With the cu...
Forbes to launch a newsletter service that will let journalists start their own paid newsletters and split the revenue, while also getting a salary and benefits
Forbes is launching a newsletter platform that will allow journalists to launch their own paid newsletters and split the revenue … Tweets: @axios , @campuscodi , @levinejonathan , @jackmarshall , @han...
Bold Commerce, which offers tools for e-commerce including checkout, subscriptions, and more, raises $27M Series B led by OMERS Ventures
Once known only as Shopify's largest app developer, Winnipeg-based Bold Commerce is hoping a $35 million CAD ($27 million USD) Series B round will help …
Cloud backup service Rewind raises $15M Series A led by Inovia Capital
Ottawa-based Rewind has closed a $19 million CAD ($15 million USD) Series A round of financing as it looks to capitalize on and expand its “backup-as-a-service” business. — The almost six-year-old s...
Swimlane, which develops security operations management software, raises $40M led by EIP, bringing its total raised to $80M+
Swimlane, a Denver-based security operations management software provider, today announced it raised $40 million. The funding will be put toward accelerating partnerships …
Inside India's digital crime unit leading the effort to catch groups on WhatsApp and Telegram that create and spread content promoting child sexual abuse
bringing the total arrests to 136. Varsha Bansal / @varshaabansal : They conduct coordinated raids & make multiple isolated arrests of people involved in CSAM creation & distribution. In Nov 2020, the...
Quali, which offers tools to automate cloud management and deployment, raises $54M co-led by Greenfield Partners and JVP, bringing its total raised to ~$100M
Quali, a company developing sandbox software for cloud and DevOps automation, today announced it has raised $54 million.
France-based mobile-first insurance startup LeoCare raises €15M Series A from investors including Felix Capital, Ventech, and Daphni
French startup LeoCare has raised a €15 million funding round. Felix Capital, Ventech and Daphni are participating in today's funding round.
Twitter has partnered with Dailyhunt to bring Moments to the Indian news app to showcase curated tweets pertaining to news and other events in India
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Multiverse, a UK startup that finds promising, diverse candidates to fill apprenticeship roles at organizations, raises $44M Series B led by General Catalyst
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based HR management platform, has raised $15M Series C, led by Salesforce Ventures in one of its rare investments in India
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
StackPulse, which offers tools for incident response automation, raises $20M Series A led by GGV
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
K Health, a AI-powered telemedical pediatric service, raises $132M Series E led by GGV Capital and Valor Equity Partners, bringing its total raised to $271M+
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
UK-based Bloom & Wild, an online florist that delivers flowers sourced directly from growers, raises $102M Series D led by General Catalyst for expansion in EU
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Tencent-backed Hike, once India's answer to WhatsApp and valued at $1.4B in 2016, says it is shutting down its messaging app Sticker Chat
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo raises $12M led by Google, completing its $40M Series E round, after raising $28M in September
Nandita Mathur / Livemint :
Trovata, which develops automated cash management software, raises $20M Series A led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, bringing its total raised to $30M+
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE :
Sources: as German car trading service Auto1 plans its IPO, Sequoia and Lone Pine will each buy ~€50M in shares from existing investors and put €50M+ in its IPO
Bloomberg :
proSapient, a research service helping customers gather insights from experts via interviews and surveys, raises $10M Series A led by Smedvig Capital
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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