Wednesday, June 15, 2022

PayCargo, which develops cloud-based payment and financing services for the cargo industry, announces a $130M Series C, following a $125M Series B in July 2021 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
PayCargo, which develops cloud-based payment and financing services for the cargo industry, announces a $130M Series C, following a $125M Series B in July 2021  —  Shipping and cargo services is one of the more fragmented and analogue verticals in the world of industry …



How to copy text from photos on Android

The feature works in a word processing app as well, such as Notes. Other platforms and apps may find the copied text useful as text. Google Lens, for example, allows users to copy text from an image and use it on Android, iOS, and PC devices. https://ift.tt/XRMGlIx

The EU's General Court sides with Qualcomm over the European Commission's $1.05B fine from 2018 for allegedly paying Apple to use only Qualcomm chips (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU's General Court sides with Qualcomm over the European Commission's $1.05B fine from 2018 for allegedly paying Apple to use only Qualcomm chips  —  U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM.O) on Wednesday won its fight against a 997-million-euro ($1.05 billion) fine imposed by EU antitrust …



Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Indonesia-based consumer payment service Flip announces a $55M Series B extension led by Tencent, bringing the round to $103M and its total raised to $120M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Indonesia-based consumer payment service Flip announces a $55M Series B extension led by Tencent, bringing the round to $103M and its total raised to $120M  —  Flip, an Indonesia-based consumer payment platform, has closed a $55 million Series B extension round led by Tencent with participation from Block …



Germany's Bundeskartellamt regulator launches an antitrust investigation into Apple's ATT tracking rules and anti-tracking tech (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Germany's Bundeskartellamt regulator launches an antitrust investigation into Apple's ATT tracking rules and anti-tracking tech  —  Germany's Federal Cartel Office, the Bundeskartellamt, has initiated proceedings against Apple to investigate whether its tracking rules and anti-tracking technology …



Meta begins rolling out parental support tools for Quest headsets and Instagram, including a parent education hub and additional prompts to take breaks (Kris Holt/Engadget)

Kris Holt / Engadget:
Meta begins rolling out parental support tools for Quest headsets and Instagram, including a parent education hub and additional prompts to take breaks  —  Meta is introducing new parental supervision features for Quest virtual reality headsets and Instagram.



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; ...