Uber engineering VP Jörg Heilig has announced he will step down

Alibaba subsidiary UCWeb announces plans to launch an e-commerce service in

Japanese regulators award a cryptocurrency business license to messaging platform Line;

Design platform Superside (formerly Konsus) raises $3.5M from Freestyle Capital with

Huawei-owned chipmaker HiSilicon announces eight-core Kirin 990 5G; promises download speeds

Xiaomi claims to have shipped more than 100M smartphones in India

Singapore-based healthtech firm CXA Group is aiming to raise $50M on

Germany’s economy ministry says several companies are discussing the formation of

Amazon is close to acquiring Foodpanda’s India operations from Ola, according

Huawei announces FreeBuds 3 wireless earbuds featuring noise-cancelling tech; the earbuds

Decentralized app platform Dapp.com raises $1M led by Hashed with participation

China’s central bank says its upcoming digital currency will work across

Thousands of resumes uploaded to recruitment platform Monster have been exposed,

Some staff at SoftBank’s Vision Fund have concerns that The We

YouTube launches a dedicated fashion section featuring curated videos of clothing

Facebook and Microsoft partner with several universities and the Partnership on

Facebook Dating launches in the US, its twentieth market; suggests other

Alibaba confirms it’s acquiring China-based remittance service Kaola from NetEase for

Medium is developing a Paper-like tool to save articles from across

Google announces Ambient Mode for Google Assistant on Android devices; the

Crowdsourced design platform Superside (previously Konsus - YC W16), raises $3.5M

Apple Music launches web player in beta; limited to subscribers; does

This Week in Startups episode 971: Jason speaks with Checkr Co-Founder

Code within iOS 13 references a device codenamed Garta that appears

Data mining and analysis firm Palantir is in talks with overseas

Apple is developing in-display fingerprint scanning tech for next year's iPhones,

Chinese manufacturer Shenzhen i365-Tech exposed 600k consumer GPS devices by shipping

Chicago-based VillageMD, which provides a platform for primary care providers, raises

Boston-based Ori, which produces robotic furniture that automatically transforms and compacts,

Stripe launches Stripe Capital, offering business loans that customers repay from

New Wave Foods, which has developed a plant-based shrimp substitute, raises

The We Company is considering cutting its valuation to just over

London-based Spirable, which provides a SaaS platform that generates personalized video

Professional recruitment platform RippleMatch raises $6M Series A led by G20

Lithuanian DappRadar, which provides a platform for discovering and analyzing blockchain-based

New York City-based data privacy protection company BigID raises $50M Series

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