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Amazon opens Amazon Go Grocery in Seattle, its first full sized grocery store without cashiers or checkout lines — Amazon Go is going full grocery. — Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Firefox begins rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users to thwart snooping ISPs — US-based Firefox users get encrypted DNS lookups today or within a few weeks. — Firefox will start switching browser users to Cloudflare's encrypted-DNS service today and roll …
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| Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
Survey of 11,500+ H-1B visa holders at US tech companies finds discomfort with Trump's policies, with many feeling their place in the US is highly conditional — OneZero conducted a 10,000-person poll to shed light on the plight of H-1B workers — This article is part of Into the Valley …
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Grab raises up to $856M from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and TIS INTEC, a Japanese IT solutions business — Southeast Asian on-demand transport startup Gojek denies that it is involved in talks to merge with Grab but today Grab announced a piece of news that — at the very least …
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Apple's appeal to avoid paying ~$440M in damages to VirnetX in longstanding patent infringement case — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Apple Inc's bid to avoid paying about $440 million in damages …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Revolut, a UK-based digital bank and payments company, raises $500M led by TCV at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from April 2018, bringing its total raised to $836M — - Revolut has raised $500 million in a funding round led by TCV, an early investor in Facebook and Netflix.| Nick Turner / Bloomberg: |
Netflix says it will launch top 10 lists to rank the most popular shows and movies, updated daily, after testing the feature in Mexico and the UK — - Top 10 lists will be rolled out after tests in U.K. and Mexico — New feature will appear in the service and be updated daily
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock and says it plans to keep Credit Karma as a standalone operation — The week is kicking off with a major piece of M&A in the world of financial technology startups. Today Intuit — the accounting …
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| Gareth Corfield / The Register: |
Samsung discloses website breach after some users see strangers' data and says an unrelated glitch caused push notifications to users from Find My Mobile app — Tight-lipped chaebol still won't talk about the dodgy app, though — Samsung has admitted that what it calls a “small number” …
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Expedia is laying off ~3,000 employees, 12% of its workforce, says it has been “pursuing growth in an unhealthy and undisciplined way” in email to employees — Expedia Group is laying off 12 percent of its workforce, about 3,000 employees, in an effort to “streamline and focus” … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Apple, TikTok decline to testify in a March congressional hearing probing their ties with China; both firms had declined to testify in a similar hearing in Nov. — Apple and TikTok each have declined a request to testify at a March congressional hearing that would have probed their relationships with China …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Graphcore, which designs processors for AI applications, raises $150M extension to its Series D at a $1.95B valuation — The UK has a strong history when it comes to processors, but the global chip market has seen some ups and downs of late. Today comes some big news that underscores …
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| David Gilbert / VICE: |
As China ramps up efforts to control the narrative around the coronavirus outbreak, it is leveraging platforms like WeChat and Twitter to track down critics — Joshua Left, a 28-year-old entrepreneur who runs a self-driving car startup in Wuhan, China, arrived in San Francisco in mid-January for a vacation …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Ripcord, which is developing robots that can digitize paper records, raises $45M Series B2, bringing its total raised to $120M+ — Staff at a California school district reportedly spent 20% of their time searching for lost documents until they retained the services of a records management company.Thanks:@jferrary
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