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The Daily Download - tech news for 2018-12-07


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Amazon may open cashierless Go stores at a number of US
India-based HCL Technologies says it will spend $1.8B to acquire numerous
Cryptocurrency Ether drops to just over $80, a 94 percent drop
SoftBank’s Vision Fund names Kirthiga Reddy as its first female partner;
Grab confirms it has invested $103M in India-based hotel booking platform
Ericsson confirms a software issue caused outages for several global carriers
App firm ByteDance plans to raise $1.4B for its first venture
Japan is set to ban the use of Huawei and ZTE
China is set to launch a spacecraft which it plans to
T-Mobile will likely not launch its 5G service until the second
Google’s DeepMind publishes findings from its AlphaZero project - a deep
Google launches a personalized audio news service for Home users; offers
Content management firm Contentful raises $33.5M Series D led by Sapphire
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou previously told staff not complying with regulations
Blockchain studio ConsenSys to lay off 13 percent of its 1.1k-member
Toronto-based crypto exchange Coinsquare acquires Stellar wallet BlockEQ for $9M; BlockEQ,
MoviePass announces new pricing tiers that will take effect in January;
Blockchain-based social e-commerce platform Project Verte raises $50M angel round led
The Trump administration hosts a meeting with tech leaders to discuss
Lightspeed Venture Partners announces five new investment partners: Jana Messerschmidt, Merci
Justin Trudeau says his government played no role in the arrest
Vine successor Byte opens creator registrations; the looping video app plans
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8cx processor for always-connected Windows laptops and
Lime to deploy 1k e-bikes in London on Friday; initially limited
Amazon launches Alexa Answers, urging select users (invite only) to answer
Microsoft confirms it will rebuild Edge browser on the Chromium platform;
Pandora launches Podcasts in general availability; offers hundreds of shows representing
Verizon expects its fixed 5G home broadband speeds to double over
Facebook is testing Live Video Mode for Sellers; currently limited to
Firefly, which enables a ride-share driver to earn ad revenue by
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The Daily Download - latest tech news, byte sized. Based on @launchtickerBy Peter Kuhar