Amazon will shut down its food delivery business in India on December 29, after launching it in May 2020 in Bengaluru, as part of a broader restructuring
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Hamburg-based Localyze, which offers a B2B SaaS service for employee immigration and relocation support, raised a $35M Series B led by General Catalyst
Google expands Google Maps' fuel-efficient eco-friendly driving routes, first introduced to US-based users in 2021, to 40 more countries across Europe
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the US with 600,000+ students, says a ransomware attack over the weekend disrupted its operations
Japan-based Josys, which helps companies automate IT operations, has raised a $32M Series A led by Global Brain
Singapore-based Docquity, a collaboration and learning platform for health care professionals, raised a $44M Series C, bringing its total funding to $57.5M
LG launches LG Art Lab which lets US users buy, sell, and trade NFTs on its smart TVs, partners with Hedera to enable purchases via LG's crypto wallet, Wallypto
India's Enforcement Directorate searched Paytm, Razorpay, and Cashfree offices on September 2 as part of an investigation into fraudulent Chinese loan apps
AI is getting better at generating porn
A look at Snap's decision to close Zenly, popular in Europe and Asia with a claimed ~35M MAUs earlier in 2022, to "focus on Snap Map", which has 300M+ MAUs
Google and YouTube outline plans to curtail political misinformation during the 2022 US midterms, including highlighting journalism from authoritative sources
Samsung says some customer data, including names, contact info, and product registration info, was compromised in a breach of its US systems in late July
Lyft faces 17 lawsuits across 11 states from drivers and passengers accusing the company of failing to protect its users from sexual and physical assault
Facebook will shutter Neighborhoods, its Nextdoor-like product to help neighbors connect and share local information, in October, after launching it in May 2021
Court filings: Apple settled with FlickType developer Kosta Eleftheriou; the lawsuit alleged Apple rejected his Watch app and then approved rip-offs of the app
OneSignal, which helps businesses automate SMS, in-app, and email campaigns, raised a $50M Series C led by BAM Elevate, bringing its total funding to $80M
Reddit acquires contextual advertising company Spiketrap to improve its ad quality scoring and boost auto-bidding prediction models; terms were not disclosed
Stockholm-based Mavenoid, which offers human and AI product support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised a $30M Series B led by Smedvig
New York-based Landa, an app for investing in rental properties with just $5 via fractional ownership, emerges from stealth with an $8M seed and a $25M Series A
Live Nation's Ticketmaster partners with Dapper Labs to issue ticket NFTs on the Flow blockchain and expands its NFL deal to give NFTs to attendees of 100 games
Solid, which offers APIs for banking, payments, cards, and crypto features, raised a $63M Series B led by FTV Capital, bringing its total funding to $80.7M
Twitter releases its Circle feature out of beta on iOS, Android, and the web, letting users tweet to smaller, selected groups of up to 150 people
A researcher says a huge Chinese database with up to 800M records was exposed for months, storing images of faces, license plates, resident ID numbers, and more
StarTree, which offers an Apache Pinot database-powered real-time analytics service, raised a $47M Series B led by GGV Capital and plans to open an India office
Meta partners with JioMart, an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms, to launch a grocery shopping service on WhatsApp in India
Reliance Jio, which has 421M+ subscribers, plans to spend $25B to launch a 5G network in October 2022 and expand to "every town" in India by the end of 2023
India says it won't restrict Chinese companies from selling smartphones cheaper than $150, after a report said it planned to do so to boost its local firms
Netflix is testing "game handles" in some mobile games, and its app code suggests it's building social gaming features like the ability to invite others to play
Shuffles, Pinterest's invite-only collage-making iOS app launched in late July 2022, is going viral on TikTok; Sensor Tower estimates the app has ~338K installs
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IRCTC, which has a monopoly on online train ticket booking in India, scraps plans to monetize customer data following uproar when its plans were uncovered
Sources: India's Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at CoinSwitch Kuber for allegedly acquiring shares worth $200M+ in violation of forex laws
Twilio says hackers accessed the accounts of 93 users of its 2FA app Authy as part of its recent breach, effectively letting the attackers generate login codes
DoorDash says hackers accessed some of its internal tools and customer information after compromising a third-party vendor as part of the recent Twilio breach
Heroku plans to stop offering free plans and shut down free services on November 28 and begin deleting inactive accounts on October 26, due to "fraud and abuse"
Twitter's VP of Engineering Sandeep Pandey is leaving after more than a decade, reportedly to join Meta and work on its AI and machine learning teams
Group-IB researchers detail hacking group 0ktapus, responsible for the recent breaches at Twilio and 130+ organizations, gaining credentials of ~10K employees
Google will add clear labels to Search and Maps listings for facilities that provide abortions, after a group of US lawmakers urged it to fix abortion searches
Instagram defaults new users under 16 to its most restrictive content setting, will prompt existing teens to choose that setting, and adds a settings check-up
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Thirdweb, which makes a development toolkit to build and launch Web3 products, raises $24M at a $160M valuation from Haun Ventures, Shopify, and Coinbase
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