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- India seeks new regulator for nonpersonal data
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 10:10 AMIndia should set up a data regulator to oversee how companies collect, process, store, monetize and even destroy nonpersonal data (or data that has been anonymized), a panel tasked by New Delhi has recommended in a draft report.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2020 will launch on August 18
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 11:43 AMAfter a series of closed alpha tests, Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios and Asobo Studio today announced that the next-gen Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 will launch on August 18.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Robinhood raises $320M more, bringing its latest round to $600M at an $8.6B valuation
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 12:26 PMThe stakes keep getting higher for American discount brokerage Robinhood, which today disclosed that it has added hundreds of millions of dollars to its previously disclosed funding round.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - More new space consolidation as Voyager Space Holdings acquires Pioneer Astronautics
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 12:45 PMIt’s beginning to be a sign of the times: smaller or younger space companies getting acquired by larger entities. Today, the company being acquired is Pioneer Astronautics, which has been bought by Voyager Space Holdings in a combined cash and stock deal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton on what newly remote companies tend to get right and wrong
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 02:31 PMOver the last few months, just about any tech company that can go remote has gone remote.
Are companies adopting remote for the long haul, or is it just a holdover until they can get people back in the office?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Project Ubin, the Singaporean money authority’s blockchain initiative, moves closer to commercialization
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 05:07 AMThe Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and state investment firm Temasek announced today that Project Ubin, its blockchain-based multi-currency payments network, has proven its commercial potential after tests with more than 40 companies.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UiPath reels in another $225M as valuation soars to $10.2B
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 07:00 AMLast year, Gartner found that Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the fastest growing category in enterprise software. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that UiPath, a leading startup in the space, announced a $225 million Series E today on an eye-popping $10.2 billion valuation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MIT creates a soft-fingered robotic gripper than could eventually tie knots and sew stitches
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 07:57 AMMIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has shared the results of a new project in which it built a two-fingered robotic gripper, which has soft pads for dedicated and fine manipulation of objects like cables, sheets and more.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Emily Heyward will teach you how to make your brand awesome at TC Early Stage
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 08:13 AMIf you’re currently building a startup, you know what product you want to build. But do you know if people are actually going to notice you? Emily Heyward from Red Antler can tell you how to get people obsessed with your brand.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WeWork’s chairman says it expects to have positive cash flow in 2021
Sunday - 07/12/2020 - 11:04 PMAfter aggressive cost-cutting measures, including mass layoffs and selling several of its businesses, WeWork’s chairman expects the company to have positive cash flow in 2021.
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- Autonomous drone startup Skydio rises $100 million and launches the X2 commercial drone
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 11:41 AMSkydio has raised a $100 million Series C funding round, which was led by Next47 and includes participation from other new investors Levitate Capital and NTT DOCOMO Ventures,
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The new school
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 11:43 AMJoe Apprendi
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Superstrata opens pre-orders on a pair of 3D-printed bicycles
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 12:39 PMThere’s one thing I can’t stop thinking about every time I look at the Superstrata: Just how quickly the thing would get stolen. That’s no knock against the bike itself — in fact, it’s probably a point in its favor.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Edtech exits show a need for better plumbing
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 02:16 PMThe world’s massive experiment with remote learning has done more than emphasize the cracks in the way we learn. It’s brought much needed attention and capital to potential solutions.
But it’s not just investors who are flurrying to the space; edtech incumbents are taking notice, too.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google to invest $10 billion in India
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 04:51 AMGoogle said on Monday that it plans to invest $10 billion in India in the next five to seven years as the search giant looks to help accelerate adoption of digital services in the key overseas market.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google makes education push in India
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 05:26 AMGoogle said on Monday that it has partnered with CBSE, an Indian government body that oversees education in private and public schools in the country, to deliver a “blended learning experience” across 22,000 schools in the world’s second largest internet market by the end of this year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Analog Devices to acquire rival chipmaker Maxim Integrated for $21 billion
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 07:45 AMAnalog Devices didn’t waste any time kicking off the week with a bang when it announced this morning it was acquiring rival chipmaker Maxim Integrated Products for $20.91 billion (according to multiple
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google signs up Verizon for its AI-powered contact center services
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 08:00 AMGoogle today announced that it has signed up Verizon as the newest customer of its Google Cloud Contact Center AI service, which aims to bring natural language recognition to the often inscrutable phone menus that many companies still use today (disclaimer: TechCrunch is part of the Verizon Media Group).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Equity Monday: India’s digital economy attracts ample attention, three funding rounds, and earnings season
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 09:59 AMHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tesla lowers the starting price of its Model Y electric SUV
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 01:10 AMTesla has lowered the price of another vehicle. This time it’s the Model Y, an electric SUV the company started shipping in March. The long-range all-wheel drive version of the car is now listed with a purchase price of $49,990, or $3,000 less than what it was before.
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- Apple allocates its first $400M from $2.5B commitment to address California’s housing crisis
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 10:20 AMApple announced this morning it’s allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and other homeowner assistance programs in California, as a part of its
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Second-quarter VC investing totals appear lackluster
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 12:12 PMThe second quarter’s venture capital results are coming into focus.
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The Exchange will have more notes on Q2’s venture results this week, but this morning we’re digging into our first dataset concerning what happened in the world of private capital from April through June. - Get a free annual Extra Crunch membership when you register for Early Stage 2020
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump’s account is back on Twitch following ‘hateful conduct’ suspension
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 02:29 PMIt’s been two weeks since Reddit and Twitch made key moves to ban political content over service violations. As Twitch noted at the time, its suspension of the official Trump account was just temporary.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A pledge to unite international students and tech
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 03:00 PMSophie Alcorn
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US threatens to restrict WeChat following TikTok backlash
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 05:41 AMAmid intense scrutiny over TikTok as a potential national security risk in the U.S., WeChat, the essential tool for Chinese people’s day-to-day life, is also taking the heat from
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rapid Huawei rip-out could cause outages and security risks, warns UK telco
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 07:03 AMThe chief executive of UK incumbent telco BT has warned any government move to require a rapid rip-out of Huawei kit from existing mobile infrastructure could cause network outages for mobile users and generate its own set of security risks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Paige, the computational pathology startup targeting cancer, closes Series B at $70M
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 08:00 AMPaige, the startup that spun out of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and launched in 2018 to help advance cancer research and care by applying AI to better understand cancer pathology, is today announcing a milestone in its growth story: it has raised a further $20 million from Goldman Sachs and Health
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SiriusXM buys Stitcher for $325 million, steps up its march into podcasts
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 08:42 AMLess than a month after picking up Simplecast for its podcast distribution and analytics tools, SiriusXM today is announcing an even bigger acquisition to raise its game in the realm of streamed spoken-word content.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Microsoft spins out 5-year-old Chinese chatbot Xiaoice
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 01:12 AMMicrosoft is shedding its empathetic chatbot Xiaoice into an independent entity, the U.S. software behemoth said (in Chinese) Monday, confirming an earlier report by the Chinese news site Chuhaipost in June.
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