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| Alistair Gray / Financial Times: |
US shoppers are expected to return $100B worth of unwanted goods bought this holiday season; online purchases 3x more likely to be returned than those in stores — US consumers are expected to send back a record $100bn worth of unwanted goods bought between Thanksgiving and Christmas as the rise of ecommerce causes a returns epidemic.| Peerzada Abrar / Business Standard: |
Report: Indian startups raised a record $14.5B in 2019, up from $10.5B in 2018 and $550M in 2010; Sequoia, Accel, and Tiger Global were the most active VCs — As the decade is coming to an end, it has seen an impressive 25x growth from a tiny $550 million in 2010 to $14.5 billion in 2019 …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
How Amazon has shaped the economy of Campbellsville, KY, where it opened one of its first fulfillment centers and is now the town's largest private employer — In Campbellsville, Ky., the tech giant's influences abound. The profits, not so much. — CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — In the late 1990s … | Reuters: |
France's top court rules that customs and tax authorities can review citizens' public social media posts for evidence of undeclared income or inconsistencies — PARIS (Reuters) - France's government can pursue plans to trawl social media to detect tax avoidance, its Constitutional Court ruled on Friday …
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Overview of the ongoing efforts by the US to modernize its spy operations, to contain the damage from the 2014 OPM breach, be more resilient to tracking, more — When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014 …
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| Abdel Latif Wahba / Bloomberg: |
Egypt approves Uber's $3.1B acquisition of Careem after setting price caps and other measures designed to keep the local market competitive — Egypt signed off on Uber Technologies Inc.'s acquisition of ride-hailing peer Careem Inc. after setting price caps and other measures designed to keep the local market competitive.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
IoT device vendor Wyze says a server leak exposed data, including email addresses, camera user IDs, and WiFi SSIDs, of ~2.4M customers from Dec. 4 to Dec. 26 — Details for 2.4 million users were exposed online for 22 days. — Wyze, a company that sells smart devices like security cameras …
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Tweets: @wesbos, @mayhemdayone, @gabsmashh, @mattdlockyer, @iansherr, @troyhunt, @campuscodi, @wyzecam, @davezatz, and @aaron_pearce
| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
An overview of the CCPA, set to go into effect Jan. 1, and the confusion surrounding it due to its technical complexity and rushed timeline — A sweeping new law that aims to rewrite the rules of the internet in California is set to go into effect on Jan. 1.
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| Byuu / Medium: |
Chrome's overzealous approach to flagging downloads of newly created software as potential malware is stifling online distribution of indie and free software — Google has an undeniable monopoly on search, and a near-monopoly on web browsing software via Chrome and its forks.
Tweets: @danaditomaso, @randomoracle, @byuu_san, @perpetualmaniac, @glenngabe, @kntoukakis, @randfish, and @notdan
| Uri Berkovitz / Globes Online: |
In 2019, nine Israeli startups became unicorns, bringing the total unicorns in the country to 20, and 16 startups completed a financing round of $100M or more — Israel now has 20 unicorns, privately-held tech companies worth more than $1 billion. Only the US, China and UK have more unicorns.
Tweets: @standwithus
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
VMware completes its $2.7B acquisition of Pivotal, originally announced in August — VMware is closing the year with a significant new component in its arsenal. Today it announced it has closed the $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition it originally announced in August.
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SiliconANGLE, Cloud Native Apps Blog, and SDxCentral
Tweets: @rseroter, @pivotal, and @ron_miller
| Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
Grab partners with Singtel to apply for a Singapore digital banking license, with Grab owning a 60% share in the joint entity — Ride-sharing operator and telco plan to form a joint entity, with Grab owning a 60% share, and apply for a digital bank licence in Singapore, where they will look to target …
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Nikkei Asian Review, Grab SG, South China Morning Post, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @jonrussell and @tculpan
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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