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Facebook to start rolling out a redesign for Messenger next week that removes the Discover tab, reorients the People tab around Stories, and hides chat bots
Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €19.99 a month
Dahmakan, a Malaysia-based food delivery startup that creates its own meals based on customer data and market research, raises $18M Series B
Tractable, which aims to speed up insurance company response times for events like car accidents by using AI to perform damage appraisal, raises $25M Series C
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says TikTok is "fundamentally parasitic", always listening, and its fingerprinting technology is "truly terrifying"
Facebook says it has paused use of the election reminder feature in the EU after the Irish DPC raised concerns about what data it collects and how it is used
Online gaming platform Roblox raises $150M led by a16z's Late Stage Venture fund, reportedly at a $4B valuation; Roblox was valued at $2.5B+ as of last year
Particle, a back-end IoT startup that raised $40M Series C in October 2019, says it laid off 10% of its staff, or 14 people, just weeks after co-founder left
On-demand tutoring app Snapask raises $35M Series B led by Asia Partners and Intervest to expand in Southeast Asia, bringing its total raised to $50M
D-Wave launches Leap 2, the latest version of its quantum cloud service for developers that can handle problems with up to 10,000 variables
Checkout, a digital payments processing startup, acquires ProcessOut, a startup which helps match e-commerce companies with payment providers
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia reports 2019 revenues of €160.4M, up 24% YoY, operating loss of €227.9M, up 34% YoY; active customers reached 6.1M in Q4
Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position
Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi
Kenya-based B2B e-commerce startup Sokowatch, which wants to offer working capital and data analytics to businesses, raises $14M Series A led ay Quona Capital
Grab raises up to $856M from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and TIS INTEC, a Japanese IT solutions business
Eaze finally closes a $15M bridge round and $20M as part of a Series D, as it works through cash flow, legal issues and aims to start selling its own cannabis
Taiwan-based blockchain security startup CoolBitX raises $16.75M Series B led by SBI Holdings to help exchanges improve compliance with AML rules
ProtoPie Comes In Where Other Design Tools Are Unable To
Mirantis co-founder launches FreedomFi to bring private LTE networks to enterprises
Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock, says it plans to keep Credit Karma as a standalone operation
CEO of Mexico-focused real estate startup Homie resigns after allegations of sexual harassment from a job applicant and an probe by the company's ethics board
Boom says its supersonic XB-1 aircraft test program will be ‘fully carbon neutral’
India's BharatPe, which helps merchants take digital payments and secure working capital, raises $75M Series C valuing it at $400M+, after 2019's $50M Series B
eMarketer estimates Twitch will have 37.5M monthly active viewers in the US this year and is on pace to surpass the 44M mark by 2022
CB Insights: fintech startups across the world raised $33.9B across 1,912 deals in 2019, which is down from $40.8B raised across 2,049 deals in 2018
Irish DPC report: 6 inquiries into multinational tech companies' GDPR compliance were opened in 2019, bringing major cross-border probes to 21, but no decisions
Decentralized Finance , the best performing sector in crypto today, feels more like cosplaying a financial system than an actual viable alternative to it
Shogun, which helps e-commerce brands build faster websites, has raised $10M Series A, led by Initialized Capital with participation from VMG Partners and YC
Shopify says it will join the Libra Association, contributing financially and operating a node that processes transactions of Facebook's stablecoin
Techmeme · 1 week ago
Tier Mobility, an e-scooter rental service operating in 55 cities across 11 countries, extends its Series B to $100M+, up from $60M disclosed in October
Tesla Model 3 makes Consumer Reports ‘Top Picks’ list for 2020
The Org, which is building a database of organizational charts of companies and claims to have 16K businesses profiled, raises $11M in seed and Series A rounds
A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
Hacker News · 1 week ago