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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
How satellite data startups like Orbital Insight and SpaceKnow track businesses, illegal mining, oil tankers, and more for clients like hedge funds and banks — SAN FRANCISCO — In October, the Chinese province of Guangdong — the manufacturing center on the southern coast that drives 12 percent …
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| Scott Shane / New York Times: |
Distributed Denial of Secrets, a WikiLeaks-like online repository launched last month by transparency advocates, publishes 175 GB of leaked Russian documents — A group of transparency advocates on Friday posted a mammoth collection of hacked and leaked documents from inside Russia …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Dropbox is buying San Francisco-based electronic signature startup HelloSign for $230M, in the company's largest acquisition since its founding in 2007 — Dropbox on Monday said it's acquiring electronic signature start-up HelloSign for $230 million in cash.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Zuckerberg's WSJ op-ed and rumored push to unify messaging infrastructure across Facebook's apps may be signs of company's increased concern about regulation — It sure feels like regulation is coming for Facebook. — The threat of government regulation has been looming over Facebook …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
US court dismisses lawsuit from RIAA labels against foreign YouTube-ripping sites, citing lack of jurisdiction since no US users or businesses were targeted — YouTube rippers are seen as the largest piracy threat to the music industry, and record labels are doing their best to shut them down.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Japan amends law to let government staff scan 200M+ IoT devices and hack the ones with weak passwords, so they can then be secured ahead of 2020 Olympics — Japanese government wants to secure IoT devices before Tokyo 2020 Olympics and avoid Olympic Destroyer and VPNFilter-like attacks.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Testing GDPR's “Right of Access”, a reporter received 138GB of raw personal data from Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google, much of which was very hard to parse — 138GB of data and no real answers — If the numerous tech scandals of recent years have taught us anything …
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| Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower: |
Sensor Tower: mobile users spent an estimated $1.27B in the top 10 US streaming video apps in 2018, up 62% from $781M spent in 2017 and 3x the spending in 2016 — Mobile users in the United States spent an estimated $1.27 billion in the top 10 subscription video on demand (SVOD) apps last year …
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| Angela Shah / Xconomy: |
Austin-based legal tech services startup Disco raises $83M Series E, bringing the total raised to $135M, to expand beyond AI-powered e-discovery — Austin—Legal tech startup Disco announced Thursday it has raised $83 million in new funding. — The round was led by Toronto-based Georgian Partners …
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Xinhua: China has approved a plan to set up a Nasdaq-style exchange for tech companies in Shanghai — BEIJING (Reuters) - China has approved a plan to set up a Nasdaq-style board for tech companies in Shanghai aimed at improving their ability to raise funds, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Virginia-based Urgent.ly, which offers a digital-first roadside assistance service, raises $21M Series B from venture arms of BMW, Jaguar, Porsche, and others — There's a healthy appetite among VCs for the vehicle assistance market — i.e., firms that connect drivers with providers that can change a tire …
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| Elizabeth Segran / Fast Company: |
Fernish, a startup that rents and refurbishes well-made furniture from popular brands targeting millennials, raises $30M Series A — If you're in your twenties or early thirties, there's a good chance that you move fairly frequently for school or work. And there comes a point …
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