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The Daily Download - tech news for 2020-01-19


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Cloud infrastructure company DigitalOcean conducts layoffs, sources report up to 10
Amazon partners with 20k-plus neighborhood shops in India, known as kirana
SoundCloud's ARR passed $200M for the first time last quarter, up
The New York Times profiles Clearview AI, a facial recognition tech
The Verge examines Armslist.com, a classifieds site for gun sales, and
Microsoft opens Xbox One streaming to Android for all Insiders; the
Cloud-native networking company Containous raises $10M Series A led by Balderton;
Netherlands-based TomTom announces deal enabling Huawei to use the former's maps
Instagram removes the button for its standalone video app IGTV from
Disney to rebrand assets obtained via last year's acquisition of 20th
Recent reports indicating that a European Commission initiative to enforce rules
Continuous delivery platform LaunchDarkly raises $54M Series D led by Bessemer;
Lenovo is developing another standalone VR headset, according to company documents
The Wall Street Journal's Joshua Fruhlinger examines the state of TV
Marijuana delivery company Eaze is low on cash and has conducted
Airbnb will consider guest safety and other metrics when issuing employee
Amazon is developing palm scanners for checkout payments at brick-and-mortar businesses,
Representatives from Tile and Sonos appear at a congressional hearing regarding
Microsoft to patch an actively exploited security bug in Internet Explorer;
Spotify is in early talks to acquire digital entertainment network The
FBI seizes domain for WeLeakInfo, a site that offered for sale
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The Daily Download - latest tech news, byte sized. Based on @launchtickerBy Peter Kuhar