Jeff Bezos says he and his brother Mark will fly on Blue Origin's first human spaceflight on July 20 alongside an auction winner (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Jeff Bezos says he and his brother Mark will fly on Blue Origin's first human spaceflight on July 20 alongside an auction winner  —  Jeff Bezos is going to be one of the passengers on his spaceflight company Blue Origin's first ever human space launch on July 20.

Sources: Flipkart is in talks to raise $3B from SoftBank and several sovereign wealth funds, targeting a valuation of ~$40B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Sources: Flipkart is in talks to raise $3B from SoftBank and several sovereign wealth funds, targeting a valuation of ~$40B  —  - E-commerce giant to raise funds as IPO pushed back to 2022  — SoftBank to back Flipkart again after selling stake to Walmart

Filing: Kanzhun, the owner of Chinese online recruitment platform Boss Zhipin, is looking to raise as much as $912M in a US IPO, with shares trading June 11 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Filing: Kanzhun, the owner of Chinese online recruitment platform Boss Zhipin, is looking to raise as much as $912M in a US IPO, with shares trading June 11  —  - Kanzhun is offering 48 million shares at $17-$19 in offering  — Boss Zhipin is China's largest online recruitment platform

Vancouver-based Trulioo, which offers an identity and document verification service, raises $394M Series D led by TCV at a $1.75B valuation (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Vancouver-based Trulioo, which offers an identity and document verification service, raises $394M Series D led by TCV at a $1.75B valuation  —  Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021.  —  Online identity verification platform Trulioo has closed …

YouTube brings Shorts, its TikTok rival, to the UK, Canada, and Latin America, letting users pick soundtracks from YouTube videos and 250 licensed labels (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
YouTube brings Shorts, its TikTok rival, to the UK, Canada, and Latin America, letting users pick soundtracks from YouTube videos and 250 licensed labels  —  One of Google's strong advantages in the world of online video has been the sheer size of YouTube: currently, the site …

France's competition authority says Google agreed to pay a fine of nearly $270M and promised to make it easier for competitors to use its ad tools (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
France's competition authority says Google agreed to pay a fine of nearly $270M and promised to make it easier for competitors to use its ad tools  —  Deal with competition authority resolves complaint over the firm's digital advertising tactics  —  PARIS— Alphabet Inc.'s Google agreed …

Vivo Y75 5G Specifications Tipped via Bluetooth SIG, Geekbench Listings

Vivo Y75 5G has been spotted in a Bluetooth SIG certification, hinting at Bluetooth v5.1 support. It has also been spotted on Geekbench benchmarking website, hinting at specifications such as... https://ift.tt/2T6byqy

Did Anonymous Really Threaten Elon Musk Over Cryptocurrencies?

Anonymous acknowledged that people who invested in crypto did that of their accord but Musk's tweets 'show a clear disregard for the average working person'. https://ift.tt/3pxsWkf

Profile of Lynne Parker, the founding director of White House OSTP's National AI Initiative Office, tasked with boosting AI research and guiding AI regulation (Matt O'brien/Associated Press)

Matt O'brien / Associated Press:
Profile of Lynne Parker, the founding director of White House OSTP's National AI Initiative Office, tasked with boosting AI research and guiding AI regulation  —  Computer scientist Lynne Parker made breakthroughs in getting robots to work together so they could perform difficult missions …

Google agrees to change some ad practices after French watchdog imposes fine

The authority also fined the Mountain View, California-based company 220 million euros ($267.48 million) after a probe found it abused its market power in the intricate ad business online, where some its tools have become almost essential for large publishers. https://ift.tt/3ip5UKW

Meet the new, unstoppable Indian tech honchos on world map

The latest to join the elite tech CEOs' club is Rajesh Nambiar, currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Cognizant India, who has replaced Malcolm Frank, Executive Vice President and President, Digital Business and Technology at the IT major. https://ift.tt/3io9162

Samsung leads end-user smartphone sales in Q1 globally: Report

The global smartphone sales to end users grew 26 per cent in the first quarter of 2021, led by Samsung which garnered 20.3 per cent market share, a Gartner report said. https://ift.tt/34ZfDiY

Google Agrees to Change Some Ad Practices After Massive French Fine

Google agreed to make changes to some of its widely used online advertising services under a settlement with France's antitrust watchdog. https://ift.tt/3fXMICt

Twitter May Allow Users to 'Change Who Can Reply' on Their Tweets

Twitter is reportedly testing a new feature, 'Change Who Can Reply,' that will help users decide who can and who cannot interact with the tweets they publish. Twitter users could be able to select the... https://ift.tt/2TOvqiw

Poco M3 Pro 5G Price in India Tipped for 6GB + 128GB Model

Poco M3 Pro 5G will launch in India on June 8 and ahead of its launch, its pricing has been tipped. The phone could cost Rs. 17,999 for the 6GB + 128GB storage variant, as per a recent leak. It is... https://ift.tt/3copeEm