Monday, June 7, 2021
Jeff Bezos to Fly to Space With Brother on Blue Origin Rocket
OpenSooq, a Jordan-based online classifieds service, raises $24M led by the Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund (Matthew Martin/Bloomberg)
OpenSooq, a Jordan-based online classifieds service, raises $24M led by the Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund — A unit of Saudi Arabia's $400 billion Public Investment Fund has led a new financing round for OpenSooq.com, a Jordan-based online classifieds business that's looking to triple its headcount across the Middle East.
A look at the rise of the meditation app Calm, downloaded by 100M+ users and valued at $2B, which aims to make meditation easy, friendly, and accessible (Annie Lowrey/The Atlantic)
A look at the rise of the meditation app Calm, downloaded by 100M+ users and valued at $2B, which aims to make meditation easy, friendly, and accessible — cathedral-like mountain towers above me; a lake laps at my feet; sunshine distilled through pine needles warms my skin. Close your eyes, a voice intones.
A look at the plight of "pickers", in-store shoppers fulfilling online grocery orders, and the cottage industry around tech tools that make them more efficient (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times)
A look at the plight of “pickers”, in-store shoppers fulfilling online grocery orders, and the cottage industry around tech tools that make them more efficient — The technology needed to fulfill orders is costly for stores, and the workers who pick items off the shelves often feel the pressure of being tracked.
COVID-19: ISRO develops 3 types of ventilators, to transfer technology
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to fly to space next month
SBI invests in digital payments firm Cashfree
Flipkart introduces contactless, QR-based payment for pay-on-delivery orders
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
India extends a deadline for implementing a 30% cap on any company's share of transactions on UPI payments network, providing relief to Google Pay and PhonePe (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : India extends a deadline for implementing a 30% cap on any company's share of transactions on UPI payment...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...
