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November 25, 2019, 9:15 AM

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Gwyn Topham / The Guardian:
Uber loses its license to operate in London after authorities discovered that 14K+ trips were taken with uninsured drivers  —  Ride-hailing service to continue while it appeals against Transport for London decision  —  Uber has lost its licence to operate private hire vehicles in London …
Ian Sample / The Guardian:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee launches Contract for the Web, backed by 150+ organizations including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and EFF to safeguard the web from abuse  —  Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / ICIJ:
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats  —  A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
E-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd raises $58M led by Spectrum Equity, bringing its total raised to $106M  —  Digital reading subscription service Scribd has raised a $58 million round of funding led by Spectrum Equity.  The new funding round brings the total amount of money raised by Scribd to $106 million.
Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk:
Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, Iran show bitcoin's limitations, as governments cut off internet, disrupting access to global exchanges and limiting liquidity  —  Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild.
Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics:
Red Hat's big sale, disappointing exits of Hadoop-based startups and Pivotal show how public clouds like AWS affect business models of open source-focused firms  —  TL;DR: If the cloud didn't eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects?
Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg:
Huawei sues for defamation in Paris after a researcher, broadcast journalist, and telco expert say on TV that it spies against the West and is state controlled  —  - Claim it's controlled by the Chinese state is false, it says  — The company is seeking to sell 5G equipment in Europe
Elly Cosgrove / CNBC:
eBay to sell StubHub to Swiss ticket resale marketplace Viagogo for about $4.05B in cash  —  - The sale is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2020, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.  —  Tickets are offered for sale through StubHub in Chicago, Illinois.
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:
Detectify, which offers a vulnerability scanner powered by a network of ethical hackers, raises €21M led by Balderton Capital  —  Detectify, the Sweden born cybersecurity startup that offers a website vulnerability scanner powered by the crowd, has raised €21 million in further funding.
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Southeast Asian payments startup 2C2P, which works with airlines, travel companies, and online shopping malls, raises $52M  —  - IFC, Cento Ventures, Arbor Ventures join the funding round  — 2C2P is tapping into the region's burgeoning payments market

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