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The Daily Download - tech news for 2019-08-17


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Upfront Ventures names Michael Carney (who joined the firm as a
Modular smartwatch company Block is liquidating assets after running out of
Google reveals it acquired New York City-based e-learning company Socratic (iOS,
Huawei is developing a mapping service to power third-party apps, China
Networking infrastructure company Zenlayer raises $30M Series B led by Forebright
This Week in Startups episode 965: Jason speaks with Kim Scott,
Toronto-based Nudge Rewards, with offers employee performance management tools for customer-facing
Alibaba to acquire NetEase-owned, China-based e-commerce company Kaola for $2B in
Security company Trend Micro discovers 85 Google Play apps representing 8M
San Antonio-based VC firm Scaleworks acquires Toronto-based e-commerce merchandising company Nextopia;
Brazilian digital marketing company RD Station raises $50M Series D led
NY's Department of Financial Services authorizes cryptocurrency platform Bakkt to provide
San Francisco permits Postmates to operate its Serve autonomous delivery robots
Nashville-based SmileDirectClub, which offers an at-home teeth straightening service, files for
YouTube disables the Manual Claiming tool, which enabled copyright owners to
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The Daily Download - latest tech news, byte sized. Based on @launchtickerBy Peter Kuhar