SoftBank says it has sold off its entire stake in Nvidia;

Disney-owned premium streaming app ESPN+ reaches more than 2M subscribers; launched

Apple reaches a deal with French authorities to pay an undisclosed

A teenager who discovered a FaceTime flaw may be rewarded via

Facebook introduces a new employee bonus structure that is tied to

P&G ($243.7B market cap) acquires This is L (YC S15), a

Google Assistant rolls out Interpreter Mode (real-time language translation) to Google

SoftBank announces a $5.5B stock buyback; represents the company’s largest-ever repurchase

The Information profiles China-based bike-sharing firm Ofo; each bike costs ~$100

Germany-based fintech firm Raisin raises $114M Series D from Index Ventures,

Instacart faces a class-action lawsuit filed by workers who claim the

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini closes some accounts after traders try to sell

FuckJerry and other meme accounts violate Instagram’s rules, reports New York

India-based hotel booking platform Oyo is set to expand to the

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says the number of channels with over

Facebook is developing a dashboard to let enterprise users access Instagram

Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo (aka PDD) plans to raise $1B to

Facebook Messenger introduces an unsend feature; lets users delete a chat

Snap ($9.1B market cap) FQ4 beats: $390M revenue, up 36 percent

Apple announces Angela Ahrendts will leave the company in April after

Cybersecurity platform Blue Hexagon discloses $31M raised from Benchmark and Altimeter;

Toyota launches Kinto in Japan; jointly funded with Sumitomo, Kinto manages

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) denies appeal by Uber-owned JUMP

Chicago-based supply chain visibility platform FourKites raises $50M Series C led

Lumentum, which produces the lasers used in the iPhone's face scanning

Volvo-owned Polestar will unveil its first all-electric car, the Polestar 2,

Open-source Slack alternative Mattermost raises $20M led by Redpoint Ventures; founded

Facebook removes 22 Pages linked to Infowars' Alex Jones; the company

Cisco is leading a trial of rural 5G services in the

Web app security platform company Signal Sciences raises $35M Series C

New York-based direct-to-consumer organic baby food company Little Spoon raises $7M

Reddit is raising $150M to $300M Series D at a $2.7B

Autonomous semi truck company Ike raises $52M Series A led by

Waymo to partner with the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance to develop autonomous taxis

Google launches Password Checkup: a Chrome extension that monitors credentials used

The US is urging European countries to avoid telecommunications equipment from

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