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Thursday, September 30, 2021
Facebook-Backed Indian Social Commerce Platform Meesho Raises $570Million
Delhi-based EV ride-hailing and charging startup BluSmart raises $25M Series A led by BP to expand its network to five new Indian cities (The Economic Times)
The Economic Times:
Delhi-based EV ride-hailing and charging startup BluSmart raises $25M Series A led by BP to expand its network to five new Indian cities — New Delhi: BP Ventures has made its first direct investment in India by pumping in $13 million in integrated EV ride-hailing and charging company BluSmart.
SoftBank says Alphabet's Loon moonshot has transferred about 200 patents to it; Alphabet says it also handed over patents to partner Raven Industries (Pavel Alpeyev/Bloomberg)
Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:
SoftBank says Alphabet's Loon moonshot has transferred about 200 patents to it; Alphabet says it also handed over patents to partner Raven Industries — - SoftBank paid $125 million for a stake in Loon project in 2019 — Google closed the high-altitude internet initiative this year
Israel-based Speedata, which is developing custom chips for data analytics processing, emerges from stealth with $55M Series A and $15M seed (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Israel-based Speedata, which is developing custom chips for data analytics processing, emerges from stealth with $55M Series A and $15M seed — Datacenters are taking on ever-more specialized chips to handle different kinds of workloads, moving away from CPUs and adopting GPUs and other kinds …
Modular phone maker Fairphone, which uses ethically sourced materials, announces Fairphone 4 with a 6.3-inch display, 5G, and up to 256GB, starting at €579 (Jon Porter/The Verge)
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Modular phone maker Fairphone, which uses ethically sourced materials, announces Fairphone 4 with a 6.3-inch display, 5G, and up to 256GB, starting at €579 — The Fairphone 4's software support should stretch until 2025 — Fairphone, the manufacturer focused on making easy …
Researchers: a flaw in Apple Pay lets attackers make a Visa payment with a locked iPhone in Express Transit mode; Apple calls it "a concern with a Visa system" (BBC)
BBC:
Researchers: a flaw in Apple Pay lets attackers make a Visa payment with a locked iPhone in Express Transit mode; Apple calls it “a concern with a Visa system” — Large unauthorised contactless payments can be made on locked iPhones by exploiting how an Apple Pay feature designed …
Facebook could face hefty fine in Russia over banned content, report says
Flipkart to deploy over 2,000 electric vehicles in delivery fleet ahead of festive season
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ContractPodAI, which offers AI contract management tools, raises $115M Series C led by Vision Fund 2, bringing total funding to $170M+ (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
ContractPodAI, which offers AI contract management tools, raises $115M Series C led by Vision Fund 2, bringing total funding to $170M+ — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
GM announces Ultifi, a software platform for its cars that will enable OTA updates, in-car subscription services, and more, rolling out in 2023 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
GM announces Ultifi, a software platform for its cars that will enable OTA updates, in-car subscription services, and more, rolling out in 2023 — Ultifi will start rolling out to GM vehicles in 2023 — General Motors announced a new “end-to-end” software platform for its cars called …
US and EU will cooperate across various tech areas, including AI, semiconductors, and supply chain security, to ensure sensitive technologies are not misused (Campbell Kwan/ZDNet)
Campbell Kwan / ZDNet:
US and EU will cooperate across various tech areas, including AI, semiconductors, and supply chain security, to ensure sensitive technologies are not misused — The new US-EU Trade and Technology Council aims to keep an eye on how sensitive technologies are used.
SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters : SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting w...
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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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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...