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India shuts down internet in two states that are home to 32M people, after protests over a citizenship bill, as Kashmir shutdown continues into its fourth month
DataRobot, a company creating automated machine learning models, announces that it intends to acquire Paxata, a data prep platform that previously raised $90M
Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to president and chief operating officer from his role of president and chief product officer; he will report to Marc Benioff
Reddit’s active user base grew by 30% in 2019
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Bill.com, which automates payments for SMBs, prices its IPO at an above-range $22 per share to raise around $216M at a valuation of around $1.6B
Google brings its real-time translation mode, interpreter, to the Google Assistant app on iOS and Android globally with support for 44 languages
Amazon launches Audible Suno, an ad-free service featuring more than 60 original series in Hindi and English, in India for free
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Atlassian announces Forge, a serverless cloud development platform to help developers easily integrate with Atlassian products
Many smart home device makers still won’t say if they give your data to the government
ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance
Zetwerk, an 18-month-old Indian business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items, raises $32M Series B led by Lightspeed and Greenoaks Capital
Berlin-based insurance tech startup Wefox Group adds $110M to the $125M Series B it raised in March; sources say its pre-money valuation is now $1.65B
Mexican branchless banking platform Albo, which offers a Mastercard debit card and app, adds $19M to its $7.4M Series A led by Valar Ventures
Former PayPal COO Bill Ready, who announced he was leaving in June, will join Google as the company's president of Commerce
Waze adds unplowed road reporting feature for better awareness of winter driving hazards
Interview with the co-founders of VC firm Pear, which has just announced $160M in new fundraising to focus on seed-stage startups
Iterable, which offers SMS, email, and app notification growth marketing services, raises $60M Series D led by Viking Global Investors
Passport, a permitting, parking, ticketing management, and mobile payments platform for cities, office parks, and campuses raises $65M Series D
Pan-African digital classifieds company Jiji raises $21M Series C and C-1 led by Knuru Capital, says it has 2M listings and had 8M unique monthly users in 2018
India proposes new data protection bill requiring companies to garner consent from citizens before collecting and processing users' personal data
FintechOS, which develops personalized automated financial technology for use by banks and insurers, raises $14M Series A
VSCO acquires video editing startup Rylo, which had raised ~$38M, reached a valuation of ~$120.25M, and was backed by Sequoia Capital, among others
Apple Card's interest-free iPhone installment plan goes live, now with 6% back on Apple purchases through December 31
Y Combinator says its online Startup School course will begin running multiple times a year, not just once, and will move to a shorter eight-week format
Zeus, a marketplace for long-term corporate housing, raises $55M Series B from Airbnb and others, at a valuation of $205M, says it has a $100M revenue run rate
Microsoft says it will finally shut down the to do list app Wunderlist on May 6, 2020, after years of prioritizing its own To Do app
752,000+ applications for US birth certificate copies are exposed on AWS; neither Amazon nor the firm that collected the data took it down after being alerted
Fourteen attorneys general will challenge T-Mobile and Sprint merger in court this week
In wake of Shutterstock’s Chinese censorship, American companies need to relearn American values
India-based B2B logistics network Shadowfax raises $60M Series D from Flipkart, others, bringing its total raised to $100M, sources say at a valuation of ~$250M
Dolls Kill, an SF-based online boutique for counter-culture fashion, raises $40M Series B from Sequoia, bringing its total raised to $60M
Snapchat is testing Cameos, a Bitmoji alternative that lets users replace the faces of people with selfies in Snapchat-made short looping videos
Boeing Starliner crew capsule and Atlas V rocket complete dress rehearsal ahead of test flight
Profile of VSCO, a photo-sharing app with a reported valuation of $550M, which is trending towards 4M paying users in 2020, up from 2M in late 2018
Dutch startup Meatable is developing lab-grown pork and has $10 million in new financing to do it
May Mobility, a Michigan-based startup that is operating autonomous shuttle services in three US cities, raises $50M Series B led by Toyota
New York-based used car marketplace Vroom raises $254M Series H, bringing its total raised to $721M
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After criticism, DHS drops a proposal to expand facial recognition scans to US citizens arriving and departing the country
Apple says iPhone 11 Pro shares location data even when the feature is turned off due to ultra wideband tech, will provide a new toggle in an upcoming update
Imgur says it now has 300M MAU and launches Melee, an iOS app where users see a feed of memes and gameplay clips for the games to which they subscribe
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