Techmeme: Interview with CEO of Razer, a gaming PC maker with 70M registered user accounts, which has steadily increased its share of revenue from software and services (Chua Kong Ho/South China Morning Post)

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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:

Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year — KEY POINTS — An attendee uses his smartphone to record a facial-recognition demonstration on himself at the Beijing Megvii Co. booth …

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Matt Burgess / WIRED UK:

FireEye: China-linked hacking groups are increasingly targeting healthcare systems to obtain medical research data and intellectual property for medical devices — New research shows cyber espionage groups linked to China are targetting medical research data and the intellectual property for medical devices

More: ZDNet, Firstpost Tech, SiliconANGLE, FireEye, Tribuneindia News Service, and Nikkei Asian Review

Jeff Vogel / The Bottom Feeder:

Founder of Spiderweb, which has been making indie games for 25+ years, explains the business and design reasons for still making games with a retro, quirky look — We spent years working on this game. We're betting our family's future on it. So. Why does it look so bad?

Tweets: @carnage4life, @dgbaumgart, and @moomanibe

Chua Kong Ho / South China Morning Post:

Interview with CEO of Razer, a gaming PC maker with 70M registered user accounts, which has steadily increased its share of revenue from software and services — Gaming company Razer reported a narrower loss in the first six months CEO Min-Liang Tan says Razer is a gateway …

Tweets: @chuakongho

Yun Li / CNBC:

J.P. Morgan Chase says it will shut down its digital wallet app, Chase Pay, in early 2020, but will continue pushing the Chase Pay button in apps and on the web — KEY POINTS — The bank plans to add more retailers that accept Chase Pay through merchant apps including food ordering company Grubhub.

Cherlynn Low / Engadget:

Google and Dell team up to unveil Latitude enterprise-grade Chromebooks, with 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, available to order from August 27, starting at $699 — The next time you get a laptop from your company's IT department, you might be getting a Chromebook.

More: ZDNet, 9to5Google, The Verge, and VentureBeat

Andrew Sheivachman / Skift:

Groups360, a booking engine for meeting spaces founded in 2014, raises $50M from Marriott International, IHG, Accor, and Hilton, bringing total raised to ~$55M — The hotel industry has had a tough time improving the painful process of selling event space and room blocks to meeting planners.

Tweets: @globalbta

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:

Versatile Natures, which uses AI to improve construction processes, raises $5.5M in seed funding, led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital — Versatile Natures, a startup using machine learning and AI to improve construction processes, has raised $5.5 million in seed funding.

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:

Interview with Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify, as its market cap has surpassed eBay, and it sets its sights on Amazon, building out its own fulfillment network — Tobi Lütke, the Shopify chief executive, prefers his employees to refrain from checking the ecommerce company's share price too often.

Tweets: @hkanji and @hashim_warren

Mary Loritz / EU-Startups:

Lunar Way, a Denmark-based banking app that raised €13M and expanded to Norway in February, raises €26M, says it has obtained a European banking license — Copenhagen-based banking app Lunar Way has raised a €26 million round led by SEED Capital, while obtaining …

More: Tech.eu

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

India's BharatPe, which helps merchants accept digital payments and secure working capital, raises $50M Series B led by Ribbit Capital and Steadview Capital — BharatPe, a New Delhi-based firm that is enabling hundreds of thousands of merchants to start accepting digital payments …

More: Business Standard, Times of India, VCCircle, Livemint, Entrackr, Moneycontrol, YourStory.com, and Inc42 Media

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Pew study: smartphone users in emerging markets have more diverse social networks than those without smartphones — The latest study from Pew Research Center takes a look at the impact mobile technology, including the use of smartphones and social media, is having on the diversity of people's social network in emerging markets.

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