Sunday, October 3, 2021
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Ula, a food-focused B2B e-commerce marketplace in Indonesia, raises $87M Series B with investors including Jeff Bezos, following its $20M Series A in January (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Ula, a food-focused B2B e-commerce marketplace in Indonesia, raises $87M Series B with investors including Jeff Bezos, following its $20M Series A in January — Updated at 8.15pm PT, October 3: In a statement, Ula confirmed TechCrunch's reporting. The startup said it has raised $87 million in its Series B financing round.
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In a 60 Minutes interview, the Facebook Files whistleblower says the company is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, misinformation, more (CBS News)
In a 60 Minutes interview, the Facebook Files whistleblower says the company is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, misinformation, more — Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.”
Ex-Facebook PM Frances Haugen comes forward as a key source behind Facebook Files, says she became increasingly alarmed by how profits came before public safety (Jeff Horwitz/Wall Street Journal)
Ex-Facebook PM Frances Haugen comes forward as a key source behind Facebook Files, says she became increasingly alarmed by how profits came before public safety — The former Facebook employee says her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant
Analysis: global VC funding for semiconductor startups has reached $3.7B in 2021 so far, up from 2020's record of $3.4B, with US-based startups raising ~$1.7B (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
Analysis: global VC funding for semiconductor startups has reached $3.7B in 2021 so far, up from 2020's record of $3.4B, with US-based startups raising ~$1.7B — Editor's note: This is Mergers & Money, a monthly column by Senior Reporter Chris Metinko that covers dealmaking in the enterprise tech space.
Australia-based Cover Genius, a B2B insurance service which counts eBay and Intuit as partners, raises A$100M Series C led by Sompo Holdings at a A$1B valuation (Nabila Ahmed/Bloomberg)
Australia-based Cover Genius, a B2B insurance service which counts eBay and Intuit as partners, raises A$100M Series C led by Sompo Holdings at a A$1B valuation — - Investors included G Squared, Japanese insurer Sompo Holdings — Fundraise is among the biggest by an Australian fintech
Reliance Retail extends deadline to complete Rs 24,713 crore deal with Future Group
Apple and Google could help with child safety online by determining a user's age at device setup and sharing it with apps implementing child safety features (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
Apple and Google could help with child safety online by determining a user's age at device setup and sharing it with apps implementing child safety features — At a moment of almost frightening technological advancement, the tech industry's best defense against children accessing websites …
Gurman: M1X-powered MacBook Pros featuring 8 high-performance cores, 2 high-efficiency cores, and 16 or 32 graphics cores, will launch "in the next month" (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Gurman: M1X-powered MacBook Pros featuring 8 high-performance cores, 2 high-efficiency cores, and 16 or 32 graphics cores, will launch “in the next month” — Now that the iPhone 13 and Apple Watch Series 7 have officially been announced, attention has shifted …
A shortage of silicon metal, sparked by China cutting output, has sent prices up 300% in less than two months, impacting production of chips, glass, and more (Bloomberg)
A shortage of silicon metal, sparked by China cutting output, has sent prices up 300% in less than two months, impacting production of chips, glass, and more — - Silicon metal output disrupted amid electricity curbs in China — Chemicals firms declare force majeure on silicone products
Elon Musk Says Cryptocurrencies Can't be Destroyed, Growth Can Be Curbed
Saturday, October 2, 2021
China releases its first set of guidelines on AI ethics, emphasizing user rights and data control, that align with Beijing's efforts to crack down on Big Tech (Xinmei Shen/South China Morning Post)
China releases its first set of guidelines on AI ethics, emphasizing user rights and data control, that align with Beijing's efforts to crack down on Big Tech — China released the country's first set of guidelines on AI ethics, emphasising user rights and data control The guidelines are part …
CFPB will supervise tech companies offering digital wallets, like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Venmo, by treating companies with 50M+ annual transactions as banks (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
Paige Smith / Bloomberg : CFPB will supervise tech companies offering digital wallets, like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Venmo, by treating ...
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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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