Sony halves the price of its PlayStation Now game streaming service

Comcast-owned ad firm FreeWheel has complained to congressional investigators about Google’s

SoftBank partners with India-based hotel firm Oyo to acquire an 80

Apple News+ launches in the UK and Australia; the news aggregation

Mark Zuckerberg suggests Facebook could sue the government to prevent it

Google is set to launch Personal Safety, an app that can

Sony files a patent for a PlayStation-centric voice assistant; labeled PlayStation

Germany-based recruitment tool startup Jobpal raises €2.5M (~$2.7M) seed from InReach

UK-based digital twin platform SenSat raises $10M Series A led by

TSMC sues rival chipmaker GlobalFoundries in the US, Germany, and Singapore,

Facebook will pay just some publishers featured in its yet-to-launch news

The US Trade Representative’s office denies Apple’s request for tariff relief

Spanish fintech firm Bnext raises $25M Series A led by DN

Twitter begins testing a DM filter tool that automatically hides potentially

Google is testing its Duplex booking tool for Chrome; announced earlier

The SEC fines crypto firm Block.One $24M for carrying out an

Shawn Layden, chairman of Sony PlayStation Worldwide Studios, is leaving the

India-based accounting app firm KhataBook raises $25M Series A from GGV

Evan Blass shares purported images of Microsoft’s upcoming Surface lineup; includes

Los Angeles-based fintech firm Dave raises $50M on a $1B post-money

Reddit updates anti-harassment policy to broaden the site's definition of bullying,

Danish hearing aid manufacturer Demant expects losses of up to $95M

WI-based additive manufacturing company Midwest Composite Technologies acquires Oakland-based 3D printing

Hacker(s) Gnosticplayers claims to have breached Zynga's database of user information

Cybersecurity company Kenna raises $48M Series D from Bessmer, Citi Ventures,

Seattle-based Maka Autonomous Robots raises $8.9M from Ignition Partners and Bolt;

Oracle discloses $40M stake in cloud computing hardware startup Ampere; the

BC-based clean-tech VC firm Renewal Funds closes ~$110M for its fourth

Dublin-based visual code editor Modulz raises $4.2M seed from Weekend Fund,

Ontario-based MESH/diversity, which develops organization management software focused on inclusion, raises

Hungarian CAD software company Shapr3D raises ~$6M Series A from Point

Atari announces its coming VCS gaming system will ship with an

The People's Bank of China approves PayPal's ($122B market cap) acquisition

Verizon ($251B market cap) to acquire assets from VR creation tools

Berlin-based venue booking company Spacebase acquires Okanda, another German company focusing

The We Company withdraws its S-1; the company filed in August

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