Monday, June 7, 2021

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 …



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...