Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Unacademy acquires PrepLadder, which offers medical education courses online, for $50M, as Unacedemy and Byju's eye edtech consolidation in India with more M&A (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Unacademy acquires PrepLadder, which offers medical education courses online, for $50M, as Unacedemy and Byju's eye edtech consolidation in India with more M&A  —  Indian online learning platform Unacademy said on Tuesday it has acquired Chandigarh-based startup PrepLadder for $50 million …



A group of best-selling authors is teaming up with Amazon in filing a lawsuit against Kiss Library, which they claim sold unauthorized ebooks of their work (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
A group of best-selling authors is teaming up with Amazon in filing a lawsuit against Kiss Library, which they claim sold unauthorized ebooks of their work  —  A group of best-selling authors, including some who previously fought Amazon over digital book pricing, are now teaming …



Coronavirus: 9 smartwatches and fitness bands that can help 'monitor' oxygen level

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Facebook ad boycott organizers see 'no commitment to action' in Zuckerberg meeting

More than 900 advertisers have signed on to the "Stop Hate for Profit" campaign, organized by civil rights groups https://ift.tt/2VWuh6S https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Walmart's membership program set to launch in July: Report

Walmart's subscription service will be called Walmart+ and it will cost $98 a year. https://ift.tt/3gBdVYZ https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Government wants a level playing field across media with light regulation: I&B secretary

Government may make same FDI rules for digital news aggregators and print media, says I&B secretary Amit Khare https://ift.tt/3f8MNAv https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Jio Platforms gets Rs 43,574 Crore, completes Facebook deal

Facebook was the first of 11 global investors that are buying a total 25.09% stake in Jio Platforms for Rs 1.18 lakh crore https://ift.tt/2Z8Sp8g https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

The Best Hindi Movies on Disney+ Hotstar

The best Hindi movies to watch on Disney+ Hotstar are mostly free and from Bollywood. With Disney+ Hotstar VIP, you can get ad-free access to big names (Chhapaak), classics (Mughal-e-Azam), and... https://ift.tt/38C1HfX

Ubisoft confronts allegations of sexual harassment at its Toronto offices, amid an open letter from 100+ employees, resignation of the studio's co-founder, more (Ethan Gach/Kotaku)

Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Ubisoft confronts allegations of sexual harassment at its Toronto offices, amid an open letter from 100+ employees, resignation of the studio's co-founder, more  —  There's a story some people tell at Ubisoft Toronto, the studio currently finishing one of this fall's bigger planned releases, Watch Dogs: Legion.



Covid-19 pandemic will drive adoption of digital payments: PayPal CEO

We're a strong believer in the potential of blockchain as a technology. We believe the digitisation of currency is only a matter of when, not if, says PayPal CEO Dan Schulman https://ift.tt/38yPety https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Redmi Note 9 Pro Max to Go on Sale Today at 12 Noon via Amazon, Mi.com

Redmi Note 9 Pro Max will go on sale in India today at 12pm (noon). The phone since its launch in March has seen multiple flash sales and will again be available to purchase via Amazon and Xiaomi... https://ift.tt/2O2nKmr

Uber drivers in Southern California and Sacramento can now set their own fares, higher or lower than Uber's existing rates, in response to AB5 state law (Carolyn Said/San Francisco Chronicle)

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:
Uber drivers in Southern California and Sacramento can now set their own fares, higher or lower than Uber's existing rates, in response to AB5 state law  —  Uber is letting drivers in Southern California and Sacramento set their own fares, a feature it will soon bring to the Bay Area and the entire state.



Fashion & apparel companies still hurting

Fashion sales in January stood at $7 billion, or $85 billion annualised, the report said, adding that the dip was the steepest in April, when sales fell to 10% of January levels. https://ift.tt/2BOUEED https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Unsealed court documents reveal identity of Fxmsp, a Kazakh hacker responsible for information theft from 300+ companies and governments in 44 countries (Patrick O'Neill/MIT Technology Review)

Patrick O'Neill / MIT Technology Review:
Unsealed court documents reveal identity of Fxmsp, a Kazakh hacker responsible for information theft from 300+ companies and governments in 44 countries  —  Newly-unsealed court documents name a Kazakh man as the mastermind behind a hacking campaign that hit 44 countries.  They also detail his short-lived successes.



Sources: FTC and Justice Department are looking into allegations TikTok failed to live up to a 2019 agreement to protect children's privacy (Diane Bartz/Reuters)

Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Sources: FTC and Justice Department are looking into allegations TikTok failed to live up to a 2019 agreement to protect children's privacy  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Justice Department are looking into allegations that popular app TikTok failed …



How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost: open-source approach, pure reinforcement learning, not supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat : How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost: open-source approach, pure reinforcement learning, not supe...