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Sources: e-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise ~$200M in new funding at a $2B valuation; just three months ago the startup raised at a $300M valuation — E-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise around $200 million in new funding at a $2 billion valuation, according to multiple sources.| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Congress releases Facebook's written responses to follow-up questions from Mark Zuckerberg's April testimony; Facebook says it received 2,000+ questions — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered a lot of questions when he testified before Congress in April.
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| Josef Adalian / Vulture: |
Inside Netflix's original content efforts as it spends $8B this year: “It's 70 percent gut and 30 percent data”, says Ted Sarandos — “What do you think about gas in the tank for the long term?” asks Cindy Holland, Netflix's vice-president of original content.
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Facebook says it's rolling out a feature to let users rate e-commerce businesses and may ban or reduce ads for those with poor feedback — New feature lets shoppers share their experiences; negative feedback could lead to bans — Facebook Inc. FB 1.29% is cracking down on e-commerce businesses …
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Internal document: Microsoft is planning for the next Xbox console release to arrive in 2020 — While Microsoft may have been founded as being a software company, there is no question about it that they are a hardware company too. With the Surface family, the Xbox, and peripherals …
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Uber unveils Uber Lite, a low-data app just 5MB in size for developing markets that shows maps only on request, coming to India first — “The next hundreds of millions of riders for us are going to come from outside of the United States", Uber's head of rider experience Peter Deng tells me.
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Large funding rounds for Bird and Lime suggest strong economics, which means the potential for building moats for dockless scooter startups are relatively weak — As I understand it, the proper way to open an article about electric scooters is to first state one's priors … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Swedish video-based call-a-doctor service Kry raises $66M Series B led by Index Ventures to finance further expansion in Europe — Swedish telehealth startup Kry has closed a $66 million Series B funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Accel, Creandum, and Project A.
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Instagram adds shopping tags directly into Stories, so now users can tap a shopping bag icon to learn more about buying a particular item — Instagram's shoppable tags are about to pop up in Stories. The company first started testing the feature back in 2016 with a limited set of 20 partners.| Marina Lopes / Washington Post: |
How two-thirds of Brazil's population is using WhatsApp to undermine the country's traditional power structures like unions amid economic and political crises — SAO PAULO, Brazil — When Lazaro Rutino needs a break from hauling beef across Brazil in his truck, he swipes on his phone … | Robert Triggs / Android Authority: |
USB Type-C has become a mess of compatibility issues, conflicting proprietary standards, and lacks sufficient consumer information to guide purchasing decisions — 6.6K — USB Type-C was billed as the solution for all our future cable needs, unifying power and data delivery with display … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase announces plans to add support for Ethereum Classic, a fork of the Ethereum token, in the coming months — Coinbase may be one of the most-lauded crypto exchanges, but it supports just four coins right now which is far fewer than most others. That's about to change a little …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
How the Connecticut State Police trains dogs to sniff out electronics, such as phones, hard drives, and microSD cards, to help out in cybercrime cases — Harley darts into a decrepit room in Connecticut. She's searching for evidence. — There are plenty of potential distractions in the room: Wires hang from the ceiling.
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FBI announces arrest of 74 people, who allegedly hijacked bank transfers using email fraud, and recovery of ~$14M; 29 of the suspects were in Nigeria, 42 in US — The FBI on Monday announced the arrest of 74 people across three continents for hijacking bank transfers using email fraud.
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Snap announces ads for its Snappables AR games, two months after launching the social AR feature; first ads will go live on Thursday — Nearly two months after introducing Snappables, its social AR offering, Snap is now working with companies to create and sell branded versions of Snappables games.
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