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Knotel, a WeWork rival that uses blockchain to make acquisition decisions, raises $400M Series C at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $560M
DOJ says it has indicted 80 individuals, many based in Nigeria, as part of a massive business email scam and money laundering scheme
Apple warns against storing the Apple Card in leather and denim
IAC has acquired short-term nursing jobs marketplace NurseFly, source says for $15M
Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B
Tala, a PayPal-backed startup that provides uncollateralized loans in emerging markets, raises $110M Series D led by RPS Ventures to expand into India
Crossbeam, which builds a platform for potential partner companies to compare data, raises $12.5M Series A led by FirstMark Capital
Internal raises $5M seed round from David Sacks' Craft Ventures to help companies deploy consoles to manage employee access to sensitive customer data
Apple Music launches a new chart, the Shazam Discovery Top 50, powered by Shazam data and featuring songs trending in the US and 10+ other countries
Adult website Luscious left data of 1M+ users exposed, including user email addresses, location data, the content they uploaded, liked, and shared
DoorDash buys Scotty Labs, which raised $6M in VC funding to help remotely control self-driving cars, quietly hires co-founders of high precision map maker Lvl5
Google Go, the lightweight search app that takes up only ~7MB of phone storage, launches to Android users worldwide, is optimized to save about 40% on data
IBM open sources the Power Instruction Set Architecture, which is used for its Power Series chips, and moves its OpenPower Foundation to The Linux Foundation
SpaceX’s spacefaring Tesla Roadster has made a full trip around the Sun – TechCrunch
Yubico launches its dual USB-C and Lightning two-factor security key
A roundup of the 84 companies that launched at Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Day 1, including education, finance, AI, and AR/VR startups
Baidu reports Q2 revenue of ~$3.73B, up 12% YoY, beating analyst estimates of ~$3.65B, and a net loss of ~$344M, as iQiyi revenue topped ~$1.01B, up 15% YoY
TikTok launches a feature that allows users to shop for products associated with a sponsored Hashtag Challenge without leaving its app
Without evidence, Trump accuses Google of manipulating millions of votes
Facebook is expanding its data abuse bounty program, first introduced after Cambridge Analytica, to Instagram after more data incidents
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US Commerce Department adds 46 Huawei affiliates to its Entity List and extends the temporary general license by 90 days for US firms doing business with Huawei
Roku Channel adds an ad-supported kids section with 7K free TV episodes and movies from 20 partners
Simon Data, a platform to leverage customer data for marketing, used by companies like Venmo, raises $30M Series C led by Polaris, bringing total raised to $59M
Direct-to-consumer birth control app Nurx, available in 26 states, raises $32M Series C and $20M in debt funding; Pitchbook: Nurx is now valued at around $300M
How Facebook, which had around 37,000 employees at the end of last year, thinks about its IT strategy and builds most of its IT tools in-house
Apple's WebKit announces strict anti-tracking policy to prevent covert tracking and all cross-site tracking, credits Mozilla's policy for inspiring its approach
Privacy researchers devise a noise-exploitation attack that defeats dynamic anonymity | TechCrunch
Flexible stick-on sensors could wirelessly monitor your sweat and pulse – TechCrunch
Google says it bought homework helper app Socratic in 2018, launches an AI-powered version on iOS, adds subject guides, and promises Android launch this fall
SmileDirectClub, which ships teeth-aligners directly to users, with dental professionals monitoring patient progress remotely, files for an IPO
Postmates lands permit to test its Serve autonomous delivery robots in SF
YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims
Cloudflare files for an IPO, citing sites like 8chan as one risk factor, says it had revenues of $192.7M in 2018, up 43% YoY, and a net loss of $87.2M
Incorta, which aims to optimize data warehousing projects for enterprises, raises $30M Series C led by Sorenson Capital, bringing its total raised to $75M
Flatfair, a London-based startup that lets landlords offer deposit-free rent to tenants, has raised $11M Series A led by Index Ventures
Rimeto raises $10M Series A for its corporate directory that integrates with systems like HR, CRM, and others for richer, easier to search employee profiles
A new app can detect Bluetooth credit card skimmers on gas pumps – TechCrunch
Some Credit Karma users say they were served other users' account information when they logged in; Credit Karma says it is a technical malfunction, not a breach
Indian budget hotel booking startup Oyo says it will invest €300M in its vacation home rental business, as it looks to expand its footprint in Europe
Kobo360, a Nigerian freight logistics startup, raises $20M Series A led by Goldman Sachs and $10M in working capital financing from Nigerian commercial banks
Nvidia says it has broken records for real-time conversational AI, training the industry-standard BERT model in 53 minutes and then inferring responses in ~2ms
Domino’s launches e-bike delivery to compete with UberEats, DoorDash
Clumio, a SaaS-style cloud-based backup platform for enterprises, announces it has raised a total of $51M in Series A and B rounds since it was founded in 2017
Facebook says it is opening up the closed beta of Spark AR on Instagram, letting any developer build and share AR filters on the platform
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