Sunday, December 6, 2020
Hike in contactless transaction limit to further digital drive: Industry
TikTok videos offering dubious financial advice are drawing millions of views, as young people increasingly turn to the app as a source of financial literacy (Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou/Bloomberg)
TikTok videos offering dubious financial advice are drawing millions of views, as young people increasingly turn to the app as a source of financial literacy — Buy several credit cards with different due dates. Max out spending on the first one, use another to pay it off …
Deirdre O'Brien, Apple's SVP of Retail + People, talks about the company's response to COVID-19 and how its retail staff and stores evolved amid the pandemic (Steven Levy/Wired)
Deirdre O'Brien, Apple's SVP of Retail + People, talks about the company's response to COVID-19 and how its retail staff and stores evolved amid the pandemic — Plus: A patented pizza box, polarization on Parler, and a sad update. — And that it didn't kill you. — The Plain View
Saturday, December 5, 2020
A growing number of civil lawyers in the US are developing litigation strategies to push back against automated systems that deny the poor basic services (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)
A growing number of civil lawyers in the US are developing litigation strategies to push back against automated systems that deny the poor basic services — A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor housing, jobs, and basic services.
Pave, which aims to help startups close the pay and equity gap by analyzing employee compensation with its software tools, raises $16M Series A led by a16z (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch)
Pave, which aims to help startups close the pay and equity gap by analyzing employee compensation with its software tools, raises $16M Series A led by a16z — Compensation within private venture-backed startups can be a confusing minefield that if unsuccessfully navigated can lead …
Stem, whose AI-driven energy storage system can automatically switch between battery and grid power, is going public via a SPAC merger at a $1.35B valuation (Joshua Franklin/Reuters)
Stem, whose AI-driven energy storage system can automatically switch between battery and grid power, is going public via a SPAC merger at a $1.35B valuation — U.S. artificial intelligence-driven energy storage company Stem Inc said on Friday it has agreed to go public by merging …
Versatile, which uses AI-based tech for capturing and analyzing data across construction sites, raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners and Entrée Capital (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
Versatile, which uses AI-based tech for capturing and analyzing data across construction sites, raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners and Entrée Capital — San Francisco-based construction startup Versatile is announcing today that it has raised a $20 million Series A. The round …
Only 37 darknet markets were active in Nov. 2020, down from a peak of 59 in Feb., as exit scams, DDoS attacks, and the pandemic accelerate market consolidation (Chainalysis Blog)
Only 37 darknet markets were active in Nov. 2020, down from a peak of 59 in Feb., as exit scams, DDoS attacks, and the pandemic accelerate market consolidation — This blog is an excerpt from the Chainalysis 2021 Crypto Crime Report. Click here to download the full document!
Broadband plans from Reliance Jio, Airtel, Tata Sky and BSNL offering unlimited data
Sourcegraph, whose universal code search service is used by companies like Amazon and PayPal, raises $50M Series C, following a $23M Series B round in March (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News)
Sourcegraph, whose universal code search service is used by companies like Amazon and PayPal, raises $50M Series C, following a $23M Series B round in March — Sourcegraph, a code search startup for developers, has secured a $50 million Series C, the company announced Thursday.
LG K42, LG K52 With Quad Rear Cameras Could Launch in India Soon
Snowflake reported revenue of $159.6M in Q3, up 119% YoY, and an operating loss of $169.5M, in its first earnings report since going public in September (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Snowflake reported revenue of $159.6M in Q3, up 119% YoY, and an operating loss of $169.5M, in its first earnings report since going public in September — - Snowflake's revenue growth was roughly in line with the prior quarter. — The company's shares debuted on the New York Stock Exchange …
Fitbit Sense Users Getting Replacements for ECG Issue: Report
MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia : MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's...
-
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
-
The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrate...
