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Electric autonomous vehicle startup Cruise raises $2B at a $30B valuation from Microsoft, GM, Honda, and others — Cruise has raised $2 billion in a new equity round that has pushed its valuation up to $30 billion and delivered Microsoft as an investor and partner.
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India asks WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy over “grave concerns” and questions why users in the EU are exempt from it — India has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy, posing a new headache to Facebook-owned service … | The Markup: |
Survey of 1,900 Facebook users: 12 political groups were among the top 100 recommended by Facebook in Jan., despite saying it would not recommend “civic groups” — According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FireEye releases a free tool that audits networks to determine whether certain techniques, known to be employed by SolarWinds hackers, were used — New Azure AD Investigator is now available via GitHub. — Cybersecurity firm FireEye has released today a report detailing the techniques used …
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Brave becomes the first major browser to natively support IPFS protocol, useful for accessing censored content; Wikipedia and other sites offer IPFS versions — Brave users will now be able to seamlessly access ipfs:// links. — With the release of Brave 1.19 today …
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Citrix acquires SaaS collaborative work management service Wrike for $2.25B in cash — Citrix has confirmed reports from earlier this week that it is buying enterprise-focused work management platform Wrike, in an all-cash deal worth $2.25 billion. — Founded in 2006, San Jose-based Wrike …
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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 870 with a similar design to the 865 and 865 Plus, clocked at 3.2GHz, making it about 10% faster than the 865 — A slightly faster refresh of last year's Snapdragon flagship — Qualcomm has announced a new mobile phone processor: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 …
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Turkey bans ads on Twitter and Pinterest for not appointing local representatives as mandated by social media law, says their bandwidth will be cut 50% in April — ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Quali, which offers tools to automate cloud management and deployment, raises $54M co-led by Greenfield Partners and JVP, bringing its total raised to ~$100M — Quali, a company developing sandbox software for cloud and DevOps automation, today announced it has raised $54 million.
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Research: GDPR fines have risen ~40% to €159M in the past year vs. the first 20 months the law was in force; €272M has been levied since its introduction — Data protection penalties climbed 40% in the past year, according to research — Fines imposed under the General Data … | Douglas Soltys / BetaKit: |
Bold Commerce, which offers tools for e-commerce including checkout, subscriptions, and more, raises $27M Series B led by OMERS Ventures — Once known only as Shopify's largest app developer, Winnipeg-based Bold Commerce is hoping a $35 million CAD ($27 million USD) Series B round will help … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Forbes will launch a newsletter service, initially hiring 20-30 journalists to start paid newsletters, splitting revenue 50/50 and giving salaries and benefits — Forbes is launching a newsletter platform that will allow journalists to launch their own paid newsletters and split the revenue … | Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Cloud backup service Rewind raises $15M Series A led by Inovia Capital — Ottawa-based Rewind has closed a $19 million CAD ($15 million USD) Series A round of financing as it looks to capitalize on and expand its “backup-as-a-service” business. — The almost six-year-old startup has developed … | David Cohen / Adweek: |
Content discovery platform Taboola rolls out Stories in beta, letting publishers add the format directly to their websites or mobile articles — Content can be added directly to publishers' websites or mobile articles — Content discovery platform Taboola became the latest platform … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PPRO, which offers e-commerce players tools to support a variety of payment models, raises $180M at a $1B+ valuation — The pandemic hastened a shift of most commerce becoming e-commerce in the last year, and that has brought a new focus on startups that are helping to enable that process.
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Business Wire, PaymentsSource, Crunchbase News, PYMNTS.com, The Paypers, PPRO, and Finextra. Tweets: @alex
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
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