Techmeme: As NYC selects Bird, Lime, and Veo for its e-scooter pilot program, a look at why NYC is seen as an invaluable proving ground for the scooter-sharing concept (John Seabrook/New Yorker)

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Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal:

Binance hires Brian Brooks as CEO, starting May 1; he was previously acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under the Trump administration — Brian Brooks, an acting head of Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under Trump, will become CEO of Binance.US

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Venmo adds support for buying, holding, and selling four types of cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash — Venmo is adding support for cryptocurrency, starting today. The company says it will begin to roll out the ability for Venmo's more than 70 million users to buy …

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S. Shah / Engadget:

Amazon is opening a hair salon in London, where customers can try on virtual hair colors using an AR color bar and shop beauty products using QR codes — Amazon reinvented supermarket shopping with its — checkout-less Go stores, now the e-commerce giant is applying its tech prowess to hairdressing.

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Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:

Internal Facebook emails, accidentally sent to a journalist, show its “long-term strategy” for data scraping incidents, framing it as a “broad industry issue” — More scraping incidents are “expected” in the future. — An internal email accidentally leaked by Facebook …

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New York Times:

Governments around the world are moving to limit the power of tech companies with an urgency and breadth that no single industry had experienced before — Never before have so many countries, including China, moved with such vigor at the same time to limit the power of a single industry.

Tweets: @davidakaye, @nytimes, @uniglobalunion, @patrickgaspard, @satariano, @katieharbath, and @ron_fournier

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Chargebee, which helps enterprises with billing, subscriptions, revenue operations, and compliance, raises $125M at a $1.4B valuation — A startup that enables businesses to set up and manage their billing, subscription, revenue operations and compliance has become the newest firm to earn the much coveted unicorn status.

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Ryan Browne / CNBC:

Source: Facebook-backed Diem is aiming to launch a pilot with a single stablecoin pegged to the US dollar later this year — - The Diem Association is aiming to launch a pilot with a single stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar in 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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John Seabrook / New Yorker:

As NYC selects Bird, Lime, and Veo for its e-scooter pilot program, a look at why NYC is seen as an invaluable proving ground for the scooter-sharing concept — Fleets of electric scooters have taken over city streets worldwide. With New York finally climbing aboard, do they represent a tech hustle or a transit revolution?

Tweets: @newyorker, @newyorker, @micromobilityco, @patrickmorgan, and @catgioino

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch:

Clearbanc, which provides capital to e-commerce companies for a share of their revenue, rebrands as Clearco, and raises $100M Series C at a $2B valuation — The fintech company raises a $100 million Series C — After five years of providing non-dilutive financing for founders, Clearbanc is tired of being only a bank.

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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Octopus Deploy, which develops a deployment automation tool, raises $172.5M from Insight Partners — Founded almost a decade ago, Octopus Deploy has grown to serve 25,000 organizations, including Microsoft, NASA, Xero, Disney and Stack Overflow, through bootstrapping.

More: VentureBeat and PR Newswire

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:

Nextdoor is introducing an anti-racism notification, which asks users to reconsider posting content if the app thinks it may be offensive — It calls the feature the anti-racism notification — Nextdoor is introducing a new anti-racism notification, which asks users to reconsider posting content …

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Ed Caesar / New Yorker:

An in-depth look at North Korea's extensive and expanding hacking operations, almost always focused on generating revenue for the closed-off country — The country's cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts.

More: DataBreaches.net. Tweets: @runasand, @newyorker, and @mattysino

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:

PayPal to launch a local wallet in China focused on cross-border payments; PayPal is the first foreign firm with 100% ownership of a payments platform in China — - PayPal plans to set up a local wallet in China focused on cross-border payments. — In January, the U.S. fintech became …

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Rachel Levin / Outside Online:

As a disproportionate number of people who purchased homes in Tahoe in 2020 were tech employees from the Bay Area, locals worry about “Aspenification of Tahoe” — Rachel Levin is a San Francisco-based journalist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker …

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Sean Burch / The Wrap:

Sensor Tower: Clubhouse was downloaded 2.7M times in March, a 72% decline from February's 9.5M+ — After pulling in 9.5 million downloads in February, Clubhouse only had 2.7 million downloads in March, according to new data from Sensor Tower — Is the party on Clubhouse already dying out?

Monica Chin / The Verge:

Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 (15-inch) review: big performance gains, excellent battery life, and very light, but not many ports and no Thunderbolt support — Microsoft's newest Surface Laptop brings better battery life and a better chip — In look and feel, very little has changed from the last generation.

Tweets: @scaryifliteral, @dcseifert, and @tomwarren

Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:

Daily Mail owner files antitrust suit against Google alleging it punishes publishers in search if they don't sell enough ad space through Google's marketplace — Publisher says its U.K. royals coverage was played down in search results; claims it was punished for not steering sufficient ad space to Google

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:

Mantl, which helps customers open accounts digitally at community banks and credit unions, raises $40M Series B led by CapitalG — Community banks and credit unions aim to be the heart of the, well, communities, they serve. But without the big budgets of larger institutions, keeping up technology-wise can be a challenge.

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Linda Sui / Strategy Analytics:

Strategy Analytics: global smartphone shipments rose to 340M units in Q1 2021, up 24% YoY, representing the highest growth since 2015 — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments were 340 million units in Q1 2021, up +24% YoY representing the highest growth since 2015.

More: Android Authority, phonearena.com, Gizchina, Android Headlines, Telecoms.com, and South China Morning Post

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:

Sony backtracks on removing PS3 and Vita digital stores, saying it was “the wrong decision”; PSP store will still shut down on July 2 — The PSP store is still shutting down on July 2nd — Sony has announced that it'll be keeping its PS3 and PlayStation Vita digital storefront open “for the foreseeable future.”

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Tweets: @playstation, @oliverjia1014, @ign, @retronauts, @omegaproyt, @tomwarren, and @nickstatt

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:

Cape Privacy, which helps companies share sensitive data in a secure and encrypted way, raises $20M Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners — Cape Privacy, the early stage startup that wants to make it easier for companies to share sensitive data in a secure and encrypted way, announced a $20 million Series A today.

More: VentureBeat

Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg:

Dogecoin rose ~10% in the past 24 hours driven by the #DogeDay hashtag for 4/20; it jumped 400%+ in the past week and now has a market cap of $53B+ — - DogeDay trends on social media, pushing prices near 42 cents — ‘Dogecoin is symptomatic of the zeitgeist,’ says Trenchev

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Nikkei Asia:

Taiwan's leading DRAM maker Nanya Technology announces plans to build a $10B chip plant to alleviate global chip shortage and capture demand for 5G components — Company follows TMSC and Intel in expanding capacity to address global shortage — TAIPEI — Taiwan's leading memory chipmaker Nanya Technology …

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Tweets: @rjhcustbc and @tculpan

Cameron Faulkner / The Verge:

Fitbit unveils Luxe, a $150 fashion-focused fitness tracker coming this spring with a wide range of bands, up to 5 days of battery life, and an OLED touchscreen — It features up to five days of battery life per charge — Fitbit has announced its new Luxe fitness tracker that looks like a more fashion-focused take on the Inspire 2.

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Tweets: @graphicalryan, @fitbit, @hypervisible, @mecanomusique, @mrwtffacts, @jendudley, and @majoramerican

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Era Software, which created EraDB to help enterprises manage hyperscale, cloud-native workloads, raises $15.25M led by Playground Global — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — Era Software, creator of the EraDB time-series database architecture …

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