The CA Assembly passes a bill that could make it harder

Apple hires Chiara Cipriani to serve as a director of video

Ireland’s Supreme Court has dismissed a request by Facebook to stop

Huawei bars staff with US citizenship from technical meetings; includes employees

Some Facebook investors call on Mark Zuckerberg to step down as

China is planning “major retaliative measures” against the US over the

Netflix is raising its prices for UK customers; the standard plan

HMD Global (which produces Nokia smartphones) sends out press invites for

Apparel brand The North Face apologizes for a marketing stunt that

Nintendo hires John Vignocchi to oversee developer and publisher relations for

Tesla opens pre-orders for China-produced Model 3; Tesla will sell the

Numerous white nationalist groups are still active on Facebook despite a

TikTok-owner Bytedance says it has plans to produce consumer hardware; full

Foursquare acquires Snap’s ad impact service Placed; terms undisclosed; the service

Intuit ($64.3B market cap) acquires analytics firm Origami Logic; terms undisclosed;

India-based entertainment platform T-Series becomes the first YouTube channel to pass

Amazon is interested in acquiring Boost Mobile from Sprint and T-Mobile,

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 will not have a 3.5mm headphone port

Chicago-based genomic-sequencing company Tempus raises $200M Series F at a ~$3.1B

Google announces new privacy rules for Chrome and Drive add-ons from

Austin-based Santé Ventures raises $250M for its third fund; the firm,

PE firm Insight Partners acquires MA-based threat intelligence company Recorded Future

Uber ($67B market cap) reported $3.1B in quarterly revenue in its

AI and analytics platform MapR warns employees it will shut down

Fast food restaurant chain Checkers reveals hackers breached its systems and

Machine learning development tools startup Weights & Biases raises $15M Series

New York City-based jobs marketplace Careerlist raises $3.7M seed from Grid

Sprint and T-Mobile are considering divesting wireless spectrum in order to

Sprint launches mobile 5G in Atlanta, Kansas City, Houston, and the

CO-based security operations management company Swimlane raises $23M Series B from

Beijing-based Nreal to launch its Light mixed reality glasses later this

UC Web-owned social video app VMate raises $100M from Alibaba; the

Firefly, which enables ride-share drivers to earn additional income by showing

New York City-based password manager Dashlane raises $110M Series D led

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