Sunday, June 30, 2019

How journalists, researchers, and civil rights groups are using big data, which put gerrymandering on steroids, to easily and cheaply track redistricting (Louise Matsakis/Wired)

Louise Matsakis / Wired:
How journalists, researchers, and civil rights groups are using big data, which put gerrymandering on steroids, to easily and cheaply track redistricting  —  THE SUPREME COURT'S conservative justices ruled Thursday that the highest court doesn't have the power to address partisan gerrymandering …



ETtech Top 5: Paytm's profitability push, Investors eye social commerce startups & more

A closer look at today's biggest tech and startup news and why they matter. https://ift.tt/2FJxyho https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

NSAB comes up with traceability to help WhatsApp

The government has been insisting on the traceability of WhatsApp messages, especially after misinformation and rumours floating had led to a spate of lynchings in 2018. https://ift.tt/2YmAU1e https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

8 most-preferred engineering colleges in India

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Malls stands tall despite the rise of online retail

India is set to get over 65 million sq ft of new mall spaces by the end of 2022. The sector is riding high on the rise of consumerism and renewed interest by institutional investors. https://ift.tt/2NoA8Qc https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Shell out fee on Paytm transactions from today

The new levies will be applicable for all modes of digital payments topping up the wallet, paying utility bills or school fees and buying cinema tickets. https://ift.tt/325qKnQ https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Japan will tighten restrictions on export of materials used in smartphone displays and chips to South Korea from July 4, over a dispute about war-time labor (Makiko Yamazaki/Reuters)

Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters:
Japan will tighten restrictions on export of materials used in smartphone displays and chips to South Korea from July 4, over a dispute about war-time labor  —  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will tighten restrictions on the export of high-tech materials used in smartphone displays and chips …



Helo chases creators to meet 100 million user target

Helo, ByteDance’s India-first product, launched in June last year and is now available in 13 other countries for Indian communities and expats. https://ift.tt/2RLerse https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Asus 6Z 128GB, 256GB Variants to Go on Sale for First Time Today

Asus 6Z comes with features like a 6.4-inch full-HD+ screen, 5,000mAh battery, a rotating dual camera module, and octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC. https://ift.tt/2Xa5EkQ

CoinMarketCap acquihires the team of Hashtag Capital, which started as a crypto trading fund, to improve the easily faked volume-weighted crypto price estimates (Daniel Palmer/CoinDesk)

Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk:
CoinMarketCap acquihires the team of Hashtag Capital, which started as a crypto trading fund, to improve the easily faked volume-weighted crypto price estimates  —  As its bid to improve its crypto data offering continues, CoinMarketCap is snapping up a firm building technology said to provide a “true price” for cryptocurrencies.



Bleckwen, a cybersecurity company developing AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and others, emerges from stealth, raises $10M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Bleckwen, a cybersecurity company developing AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and others, emerges from stealth, raises $10M Series A  —  Bleckwen, a cybersecurity firm developing fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and financial technology companies …



Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 31.6% YoY to 507.7B in the first half of 2019 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 31.6% YoY to 507.7B in the first half of 2019  —  Music streaming services have already delivered a new high of half a trillion (507.7 billion) on-demand streams in the first half of 2019, according to Nielsen's mid-year Music Report released this week.



Investors rush to back social commerce startups BulBul, WMall, SimSim, and Mall91

As the next billion Indian internet users get accustomed to life with technology, commerce experiences will be different due to various factors such as language, community, price points and logistics, investors point out. https://ift.tt/2Jev3EP https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Paytm Mall cuts its cash burn by a third, plans to break even in 2 years

This comes at a time when Paytm Mall has undergone a significant management shakeout and moved away from a discounting and cash back-led business to an online-to-offline strategy https://ift.tt/2Xljfuz https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for its blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business (Leigh Cuen/CoinDesk)

Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk:
TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for its blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business  —  What started as a $575 million token sale is now a rewards program for watching videos.  —  TaTaTu's initial coin offering …



Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters)

Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...