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The Daily Download - tech news for 2019-03-20


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Data management firm Portworx raises $27M Series C led by Sapphire
President Trump accuses Facebook, Google, and Twitter of “collusion”; Trump says
Rep Bennie Thompson (D-MS) asks the CEOs of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter,
French healthtech firm Doctolib raises €150M (~$170M) on a $1.1B post-money
Former AOL CEO Tim Armstrong will get more than $60M as
Apple announces a news media literacy initiative; the company will provide
The EU fines Google €1.5B (~$1.7B) for “abusive practices in online
Greek travel startup Welcome Pickups raises €3.3M (~$3.7M) Series A from
Ojo Labs, an Austin-based firm offering an AI-powered real estate app,
Disney completes its $71B acquisition of 21st Century Fox properties; includes
Kaspersky Lab files an antitrust complaint against Apple in Russia; Kaspersky
Some Australian telcos block access to online platforms such as 4chan,
Snap is working with British lawmakers on ways to stop underage
Uber has used spyware to poach drivers from a rival service
Lyft’s IPO is oversubscribed, according to Reuters sources; the company began
Google says it will let European Android users choose their preferred
China-based imaging firm Insta360 raises $30M Series C from Everest Venture
This Week in Startups episode 912: #AskJason: Viewers call in for
Kickstarter Co-Founder and CEO Perry Chen steps down; he served as
Kickstarter workers announce plans to unionize via the Office and Professional
The FBI's December shutdown of 15 DDoS-for-hire domains resulted in an
National Music Publishers Association members sue home fitness company Peloton for
Facebook updates ad-targeting policy after settling housing discrimination suit; going forward,
Waymo announces plans for an 85,000-square-foot technical service center in Mesa,
Google announces Stadia Games and Entertainment, led by Jade Raymond; the
Google's new cloud-based game-streaming service, Stadia, includes a feature called Crowd
Twitter to audit all developers using APIs to make 100k or
Google announces game-streaming service Stadia; promises support for any display and
New York-based direct-to-consumer beauty products company Glossier raises $100M Series D
Former Pinterest CTO and VP of Engineering Vanja Josifovski joins Airbnb
HP announces Reverb, a lightweight Windows Mixed Reality headset slated to
Recurring donations platform Patreon announces creator tiers; Lite enables creators to
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The Daily Download - latest tech news, byte sized. Based on @launchtickerBy Peter Kuhar