The Japanese government says it will establish a new agency to

Japanese bank MUFG partners with Akamai to develop a blockchain-based high-capacity

Google says it’s transitioning IoT service Android Things (AT) from a

Instagram begins testing direct messages for desktop and mobile web, reports

Japan-based vehicle mapping firm Dynamic Map Platform (DMP) acquires US counterpart

Rapyd, a fintech backend service, raises $40M Series B led by

Tim Cook says Apple will investigate its hosting of Absher, a

China-based autonomous trucking firm TuSimple raises $95M Series D on a

Apple’s self-driving cars have the highest disengagement rate (when a human

AWS hires Greg Pearson as VP of Americas Sales; Pearson previously

India-based fintech firm Open raises $5M Series A led by Beenext,

Indian lawmakers are preparing draft legislation which could make services such

Kara Swisher interviews Jack Dorsey via Twitter; covers a range of

E-commerce SaaS firm Donde Search raises $6M Series A led by

BuzzFeed News staff vote to unionize; they are organizing as BuzzFeed

A hacker is offering 617M user details from a variety of

EV firm Rivian is in talks to raise an unknown sum

Activision Blizzard cuts ~770 jobs, equal to 8 percent of its

Apple will keep ~50 percent of fees from its upcoming news

Uber releases Ludwig, an AI development toolbox built on Google's TensorFlow;

This Week in Startups episode 902: Looking Glass Factory Co-Founder and

Apple to unveil its premium News subscription service on March 25,

Ann Arbor-based autonomous driving tech startup May Mobility raises $22M Series

IBM announces some of its Watson AI services now work with

GSMArena publishes purported spec sheets for Samsung's coming Galaxy S10,

Ubisoft partners with Mozilla to co-develop AI-powered coding assistant Clever-Commit; Ubisoft

VR/AR stylus startup Massless raises $2M seed led by Founders Fund

Major publishers are resisting Apple's financial terms for its coming premium

Department of Defense inspector general to evaluate the Air Force's 2015

Recruiting platform Jobvite raises $200M from PE firm K1 Investment Management;

Medium acquires San Francisco-based culture magazine The Bold Italic; terms undisclosed;

AT&T to launch 5G+ (millimeter wave) in Minneapolis and Chicago this

WeWork updates its app with user profiles and a feature that

Chrome extension Language Learning with Netflix adds a second set of

Collaborative analytics platform Mode raises $23M Series C led by Valor

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