9 companies disqualified from applying for H-1B visas

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ETtech Top 5: Travis Kalanick eyes India cloud kitchen foray, Gig economy background checks and more

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Voi Technology, a Sweden-based scooter-sharing startup which operates in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, raises $85M Series B (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)

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Voi Technology, a Sweden-based scooter-sharing startup which operates in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, raises $85M Series B  —  Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, has raised an $85 million in Series B funding.

Alibaba says Singles' Day sales hit $13 billion in first hour

Alibaba has said it expects over 500 million users to participate in the shopping festival this year, about 100 million more than last year. https://ift.tt/34Gfi2K https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

View: Make CERT-In liable to notify victims of cyberattacks

WhatsApp breach shows Indian victims are stuck with no way to know if they have fallen prey to a cyberattack. https://ift.tt/2KnS61F https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Netflix revenue soars on local content, marketing

Netflix India reported revenues of Rs 466.7 crore for FY19 with a net profit of Rs 5.1 crore https://ift.tt/2Cx5fku https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Lava eyes tie-ups with global tech firms to boost capabilities

The ongoing trade war between US and China appears to have started benefiting Lava, which has already started shipping India manufactured 4G smartphones to US https://ift.tt/34LtbN4 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Samsung to take Galaxy M smartphones offline too

Galaxy M has been an online exclusive smartphone series, but Samsung has decided to take it offline as well, heeding to demand from offline retail lobbies https://ift.tt/33CqrRR https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Nykaa ramps up offline push in tier 2 cities

The company's strategy to spread its offline stores beyond the top cities is driven by increased sales coming from these markets. https://ift.tt/2NA7EBq https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Background screening is a gig that needs fixing

Experts highlight major challenges in executing full background checks of workers in the absence of organised data sources https://ift.tt/33B83sO https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

India is clocking fastest revenue growth for Twitter: India MD Manish Maheshwari

"We felt solving for language in India is going to be very important. Already, non-English tweets are 50% of overall tweets" Maheshwari said. https://ift.tt/2K5q2j5 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Mastodon cashing in on Twitter's failings

Mastodon said it saw 18,800 new users on mastodon.social alone over the last week https://ift.tt/32vAK9f https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Travis Kalanick readies recipe for India cloud kitchen foray

Kalanick's new venture City Storage Systems, which runs CloudKitchens, is building an India team https://ift.tt/36NSZKt https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Best Phones That You Can Buy Under Rs. 30,000 Right Now

Redmi K20 Pro, Samsung Galaxy A70, and Samsung Galaxy A9 (2018) feature in our top picks for best phones under Rs. 30,000. Phones from Vivo and Oppo are also part of top phones in this price segment. https://ift.tt/33FUV5O

Alipay and WeChat Pay now allow foreign visitors to link international credit cards to make mobile payments in mainland China (Campbell Kwan/ZDNet)

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Alipay and WeChat Pay now allow foreign visitors to link international credit cards to make mobile payments in mainland China  —  It has partnered up with Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Global Network, and JCB to allow foreign visitors to link their credit cards to WeChat Pay.