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The Daily Download - tech news for 2019-10-23


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Attorneys general for 47 states are jointly investigating Facebook over potential
Healthtech startup Viz.ai raises $50M Series B led by Greenoaks with
E-commerce logistics service Fabric (formerly CommonSense Robotics) raises $110M Series B
Instagram institutes a ban against AR filters that promote or depict
A UK government committee asks Facebook to explain why posts from
Huawei says it has shipped 200M smartphones so far this year,
Toyota Tsusho (a division of Toyota) and Israel-based investment platform OurCrowd
Google publishes a research paper providing details of its claim to
EV Connect, a Los Angeles-based EV charging maintenance platform, raises $12M
Huawei opens pre-orders for its 5G Mate X foldable smartphone in
Facebook announces a $1B package of loans, grants, and land for
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says the company does not run political
Mark Zuckerberg is set to tell Congress the Libra stablecoin will
Cloud automation firm ServiceNow names Bill McDermott as CEO; McDermott recently
Snap ($19.3B market cap) Q3 beats: $446M revenue, up 50 percent
SoftBank confirms it will invest $5B in The We Company, plus
UK-based biotech firm LabGenius raises $10M Series A led by Lux
SpaceX plans to commercially launch its Starlink satellite internet service by
Childcare and early education marketplace Winnie raises $9M Series A led
Instabase, a development platform for business automation apps, raises $105M Series
WeWork Co-Founder Adam Neumann will leave the company with $1.7B as
This Week in Startups: #StartupTuneup with Urban-XJason speaks with founders from
Ann Arbor-based supply chain and logistics software company Llamasoft acquires Chicago-based
Roku ($15B market cap) acquires Boston-based demand-side ads platform dataxu for
French esports training platform Nicecactus.gg raises $5.5M from undisclosed investors; helps
Sandbox VR raises $11M Series A (second tranche) from A16Z, Katy
UK-based Stacker, a code-free app development platform, raises $1.3M seed led
London-based Disperse.io, which uses computer vision to analyze progress and efficiency
Data science and engineering company Databricks raises $400M Series F at
Web host and design tools company Squarespace acquires social media content
DC-based wireless connectivity mapping startup Aurora Insight emerges with $18M seed
MD-based quantum computing startup IonQ raises $55M led by Samsung Catalyst
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The Daily Download - latest tech news, byte sized. Based on @launchtickerBy Peter Kuhar