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Friday, June 25, 2021

UK's CMA launches an investigation into whether Amazon and Google are doing enough to crack down on fake reviews and deter sellers from manipulating listings (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
UK's CMA launches an investigation into whether Amazon and Google are doing enough to crack down on fake reviews and deter sellers from manipulating listings — U.K. regulator opens investigation into whether tech giants are doing enough to deter sellers from manipulating product listings

Samsung Galaxy A20 Getting Android 11 Update in India: Report

Samsung Galaxy A20 is reportedly receiving an Android 11-based One UI 3.1 update in India. The update is also bundled with the June 2021 Android security patch and has the firmware version... https://ift.tt/3vVugiy

TCL Movetime Family Watch 2 for Children With GPS, 4G SIM Slot Launched

TCL Movetime Family Watch 2 is a successor to the TCL Movetime Family Watch from last year. It comes with some improvements over its predecessor like a larger display. The TCL Movetime Family Watch 2... https://ift.tt/2T8NtzM

Bitcoins Worth $3.6 Billion Vanished Along With Cryptocurrency Firm, Founders

Africrypt, a cryptocurrency investment firm in South Africa, run by two brothers - CEO Raees Cajee and COO Ameer Cajee - is under global scrutiny right now after up to $3.6 billion (roughly Rs.... https://ift.tt/3gT0NBq

Fujifilm launches FUJINON XF18mmF1.4 R LM WR lens at Rs 91,999

Expanding its X-series lens lineup, Fujifilm India has announced the launch of the FUJINON XF 18mm F1.4 R LM WR lens (XF18mmF1.4) in India today. https://ift.tt/35PFcDA

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, Galaxy Z Flip 3 Official-Looking Renders Out

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 have had their official-looking renders leaked by notable tipster Evan Blass (@evleaks). The renders show that the Galaxy Z Fold 3 may feature a... https://ift.tt/3gWChPO

China Cryptocurrency Ban Forces Some Bitcoin Miners to Flee Overseas

China's sweeping ban on cryptocurrency mining has paralysed an industry that accounts for over half of global bitcoin production, as miners dump machines in despair or seek refuge in places such as... https://ift.tt/35RarhM

Garmin Forerunner 55 With GPS, Activity Tracking Launched in India

Garmin Forerunner 55 has launched in India as an affordable fitness orientated smartwatch from the company. It comes with a round dial and is offered in three colours. Garmin Forerunner 55 has 5 ATM... https://ift.tt/3xU5i4G

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz raises $2.2B for its third fund focused on crypto startups and cryptocurrencies (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Andreessen Horowitz raises $2.2B for its third fund focused on crypto startups and cryptocurrencies — - The Silicon Valley venture capital firm just announced a new $2.2 billion cryptocurrency-focused fund. — “We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto …

Firebolt Analytics, which builds a cloud data warehouse designed for rapid analysis of large data sets, raises $127M Series B led by Dawn Capital and K5 Global (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Firebolt Analytics, which builds a cloud data warehouse designed for rapid analysis of large data sets, raises $127M Series B led by Dawn Capital and K5 Global — Speedy cloud data warehouse startup Firebolt Analytics Inc. is looking like a very hot prospect indeed after landing $127 million in an all-equity round of funding.

Filing: Wise, previously TransferWise, plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange via a direct listing in early July, reportedly at a $6B-$7B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Filing: Wise, previously TransferWise, plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange via a direct listing in early July, reportedly at a $6B-$7B valuation — Following Wise's announcement earlier this month that it planned to go public by way of a direct listing on the LSE …

Four former executives of Nexa Technologies, an alleged supplier of surveillance tech to Libya and Egypt, were indicted for complicity in torture and war crimes (Sidney Fussell/Wired)

Sidney Fussell / Wired:
Four former executives of Nexa Technologies, an alleged supplier of surveillance tech to Libya and Egypt, were indicted for complicity in torture and war crimes — The managers are accused of selling tech to Libya and Egypt that was used to to identify activists, read private messages, and kidnap, torture, or kill them.