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The Daily Download - tech news for 2018-11-27


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Singapore-based business management firm Deskera raises $60M Series A led by
Direct-to-consumer dental care firm Quip raises $40M equity and debt led
President Trump suggests laptops and mobile phones produced in China may
Southern University of Science and Technology of China (SUTC) opens an
Japan-based messaging firm Line announces partnerships with Mizuho Financial and Tencent;
Amazon says Cyber Monday 2018 was the largest single shopping day
British and Dutch regulators issue fines against Uber over a 2016
Blockchain journalism firm Civil has failed to pay out full compensation
Nine parliaments from around the world hold a grand committee hearing
Consumer groups in Greece, Norway, and five other EU countries claim
Amazon is encouraging a number of consumer packaged goods firms to
Stock-trading firm Robinhood names Jason Warnick as its first CFO; Warnick
Lime launches in the UK; the company is making its dockless
Huawei teases a smartphone with a circular cutout for a front-facing
The US Supreme Court is seemingly leaning toward letting a class-action
Google spends $1B to acquire a 51.8-acre site in Mountain View,
Amazon’s AWS announces Graviton, its own custom-designed Arm server processor; full
WhatsApp CBO Neeraj Arora steps down; reasons for the departure unclear;
Facebook says its election War Room is not being disbanded as
Eight China-owned Google Play apps representing 2B-plus downloads exploited user permissions
Hacker exploits the Event-Stream JavaScript library to steal Bitcoin and Bitcoin
Apple announces Entrepreneur Camp, a free, two-week tech lab focused on
NASA's InSight spacecraft lands on Mars, marking the administration's eighth successful
Amazon is encouraging consumer goods companies to include Alexa branding and
Venmo incurred $40M in fraud-related losses in the first quarter of
Apple opens registration for free Hour of Code sessions that will
OH launches cryptocurrency tax payment portal OhioCrypto.com; initially limited to businesses,
Microsoft hits record market cap of $817B, closing in on Apple's
Amazon launches AWS RoboMaker: a cloud system for building and testing
Neighborhood security camera company Flock Safety raises $10M from undisclosed investors,
Airbnb hires former Amazon VP and CFO of Worldwide Consumer Business
Video game developer and comic book publisher Rebellion is expanding into
GM announces North American job cuts, marking the company's most significant
Facebook disbands its War Room, which brought employees from multiple departments
Cyber Monday to see $7.8B in online sales this year, according
Amazon to shut down its restaurant food delivery service, Restaurants, in
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The Daily Download - latest tech news, byte sized. Based on @launchtickerBy Peter Kuhar