Techmeme: Mobile retail banking startup N26 is raising $300M Series D at a $2.7B valuation led by Insight Venture Partners, says it is live in 24 European markets (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

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Tom Krazit / GeekWire:

AWS launches Amazon DocumentDB, a new document database offering that is compatible with MongoDB version 3.6 — The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between the cloud giant and the company behind that open-source project.

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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Mobile retail banking startup N26 is raising $300M Series D at a $2.7B valuation led by Insight Venture Partners, says it is live in 24 European markets — Fintech startup N26 is raising a Series D round of $300 million. Following this new funding round, the company is now valued at $2.7 billion.

More: Tech.eu, Forbes, CNBC, Telegraph, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @romaindillet

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google announces a new search feature that lets logged-in users access past searches on specific topics, available now in the US — Google is now rolling out a new feature in search named “your related activity.” This feature lets signed in Google users pick up on previous searches they've done related to the query they just added.

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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

Adviser to EU court backs Google, says search engines shouldn't be forced to apply “right to be forgotten” beyond the bloc's borders — Recommendation largely backs Google, which appealed a French order to apply the EU right to searches globally

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Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post:

Sources: Bitmain co-founders Wu Jihan and Zhan Ketuan to step down as co-CEOs, will be succeeded by product engineering director Wang Haichao — - Bitmain accounts for 75 per cent of the world's specialised computers used to earn new units of digital money

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Casey Newton / The Verge:

NYU and Princeton study of 3,500 US adults: 11% of those over 65 have shared a hoax article on Facebook, while just 3% of those 18 to 29 have done so — And the finding holds true across party lines — Older Americans are disproportionately more likely to share fake news on Facebook …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Instagram will now let users post to multiple accounts at once on iOS and begins testing easier Google Photos imports on Android — Instagram is swaying the balance towards simplicity but away from originality. It's adding the ability to publish feed posts to different accounts you control …

More: MacRumors, The Mac Observer, Adweek, Social Media Today, The Next Web, SlashGear, CNET, Marketing Land, Pocketnow, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Engadget

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

AMD announces the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII GPU, which it says will be 27% to 62% faster, coming in Feb. for $700; CEO Su says 400M+ gamers use Radeon graphics — Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, announced the chip makers new graphics processing unit, the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII graphics chip.

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Tweets: @starfire2258, @markhachman, @patrickmoorhead, @jowens510, @vladsavov, @patrickmoorhead, @tomwarren, @amd, and @bdsams

Ian Cutress / AnandTech:

AMD debuts its third-generation Ryzen “Matisse” CPU, coming in mid-2019, with an eight-core 7nm chipset

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Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat:

AT&T says its mobile 5G network will be available nationwide in 2020 on its sub-6GHz spectrum amid competitor criticism of its 5G E branding on non-5G devices — AT&T already launched its initial mobile 5G network in parts of 12 U.S. cities last December, but it's now preparing …

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google says Chrome's ad blocker, which adheres to Coalition for Better Ads' guidelines, is rolling out globally on July 9 — Google today announced that Chrome's ad blocker is expanding across the globe starting on July 9, 2019. As with last year's initial ad blocker rollout, the date is not tied to a specific Chrome version.

More: Chromium Blog, Android Authority, The Verge, bit-tech.net, Coalition for Better Ads, and 9to5Google

Alex West / New York Magazine:

For many adolescents, TikTok videos they consume are primarily repurposed content on curated YouTube channels and Instagram meme accounts — If you're looking for a window into contemporary youth culture, there is nothing better than TikTok. The social short-video app's primary feature …

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Jesus Diaz / Fast Company:

IKEA's battery-powered smart blinds supporting HomeKit, Alexa, Google Assistant, and IKEA's Trådfri will be broadly available in Europe Feb. 2, in the US Apr. 1 — Ikea is finally introducing low-cost, motorized smart blinds. Called Fyrtur, the blinds will be available …

More: SlashGear, Geek.com, The Verge, 9to5Mac, and Engadget

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

OneLogin, which provides cloud-based identity and access management solutions for enterprises, raises $100M Series D led by Greenspring Associates — Not every startup manages to reach — or exceed — $100 million in financing. Those that do join an exclusive group of fundraisers …

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Overview of the high-end monitors announced at CES so far, including 49-inch ultrawide offerings from Samsung, Dell, and others — Giant, wide, and sometimes even portable — It's barely the second week of the year, and we've already been treated to an arrangement of weird and wonderful monitors …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Hulu to start testing a new home screen to replace the “confusing” Lineup feature with two different options called “Hulu Picks” and “Unwatched in My Stuff” — Hulu is preparing to update its streaming app in order to make its simpler to navigate to and discover content you want to watch.

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Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:

Source: e-scooter startup Bird is raising $300M, led by Fidelity, as an extension of its prior round at its current $2B pre-money valuation — E-scooter startup Bird is raising $300 million in new funding led by Fidelity, Axios has learned. Bird would maintain its existing $2 billion pre-money valuation …

More: socalTECH.com. Tweets: @coryweinberg and @alex

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Google's “knowledge panel” search results can be manipulated for users visiting via specially-crafted URL; researcher says he told Google of the issue last year — Dutch researcher argues that Google should remove support for knowledge panels. — A feature of the Google search …

More: BetaNews, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, TechCrunch, and BleepingComputer

CoinDesk:

Former ConsenSys employees and investors say ConsenSys' investment structure and CEO Joseph Lubin's insistence on control made enticing outside investors tough — “Just rely on the fact that it's all funded by Papa Joe.” — That's how one former employee, who asked to stay anonymous …

More: The Block. Tweets: @la__cuen

Erin Griffith / New York Times:

Some VCs say they are rooting for a market dip to counterbalance an overheated startup market, with a VC at IVP predicting valuations will drop 10%-40% in 2019 — Some venture capitalists are rooting for a market dip to calm Silicon Valley's overheated start-up scene.

Tweets: @nytimes and @nytimesbusiness

Manish Singh / VentureBeat:

Wikimedia announces the integration of Google Translate into Wikipedia's content translation tool used by editors, which now supports 121 total languages — For years, Wikipedia has been working on making its eponymous encyclopedia support more languages. But the nonprofit's effort has been slow …

More: Wikimedia Foundation and 9to5Google

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