Sunday, July 10, 2022

Sources: Tiger Global plans to slow startup investments for two quarters and is on track to raise a new fund later this year (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Sources: Tiger Global plans to slow startup investments for two quarters and is on track to raise a new fund later this year  —  Tiger Global, one of the biggest winners from the technology bull market, plans to decelerate the pace of its investments in startups for two quarters …



Sources: Myanmar's junta rolls out Chinese surveillance cameras with facial recognition tech in five more cities and plans to add them to every state in Myanmar (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)

Fanny Potkin / Reuters:
Sources: Myanmar's junta rolls out Chinese surveillance cameras with facial recognition tech in five more cities and plans to add them to every state in Myanmar  —  Myanmar's junta government is installing Chinese-built cameras with facial recognition capabilities in more cities across the country …



Sources: defense contractor L3Harris scuttled plans to buy NSO Group despite alleged US intel officials' support, after the Biden admin's outrage over the talks (New York Times)

New York Times:
Sources: defense contractor L3Harris scuttled plans to buy NSO Group despite alleged US intel officials' support, after the Biden admin's outrage over the talks  —  The American contractor L3 Harris is said to have cited support from intelligence officials for its effort to acquire NSO …



VC funding in Latin America, which hit a record $14.8B in 2021 according to PitchBook, has slowed down in 2022 amid a downturn as some investors pull back (Biz Carson/Protocol)

Biz Carson / Protocol:
VC funding in Latin America, which hit a record $14.8B in 2021 according to PitchBook, has slowed down in 2022 amid a downturn as some investors pull back  —  Shu Nyatta's friends thought he was crazy when he said he was going to move to Miami and start investing in companies in Latin America.



Massive trove of internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveal management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's rapid international expansion (The Guardian)

The Guardian:
Massive trove of internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveal management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's rapid international expansion  —  - More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian  — Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne



Interview with Chip Morningstar, a developer behind Lucasfilm's MMORPG forerunner Habitat, on lessons learned building the game, metaverse, blockchain, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Interview with Chip Morningstar, a developer behind Lucasfilm's MMORPG forerunner Habitat, on lessons learned building the game, metaverse, blockchain, and more  —  The metaverse is all the rage today, and its lineage goes way back in gaming.  The universe of connected virtual worlds might …



The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...