Atari signs a licensing deal for eight video-game themed hotels across

The Wall Street Journal profiles Kobe Bryant’s move into venture capitalism;

Karma Automotive (formerly Fisker Automotive) plans to showcase an all-electric pickup

Russian internet firm Yandex launches a grocery delivery service that promises

Instacart is trying to discourage part-time workers from unionizing, reports Motherboard;

Philips is considering a sale for its kitchen appliance division; the

Investigators at the Department of Justice are arranging interviews with Facebook’s

Apple ($1.3T market cap) is set to report its Q1 earnings

French ecommerce firm ManoMano raises €125M (~$139M) led by Temasek; the

India-based edtech firm InterviewBit raises $20M Series A from Sequoia India,

Apple is asking its manufacturing partners to produce up to 80M

Several execs at Away were not told Steph Korey would return

Former UK government ministers and current lawmakers have expressed concerns about

Facebook and LG begin restricting travel to China in the wake

The UK government proposes new legislation covering IoT devices; under the

Food delivery startup Thistle raises $5.6M Series A led by PowerPlant

Film studio MGM has held talks with Apple, Netflix, and others

Chinese censors have been unable to control the messaging around the

John Gruber (Daring Fireball) writes about the iPad, 10 years after

SuperAwesome, a child-centric ads platform, raises $17M from Microsoft’s M12 and

Google announces it will close its App Maker service; the G

Administrators for defunct public Wi-Fi booth firm InLinkUK issue a report

WholyMe, a UK-based direct-to-consumer homeopathy service, raises £500k (~$650k) from Financière

Web-based visual collaboration tool Mural (formerly Mural.ly) raises $23M Series A

Bird acquires Germany-based scooter-sharing rival Circ; terms undisclosed; Circ operates in

Los Angeles-based VR entertainment firm Amaze VR raises $2.5M from undisclosed

Nintendo announces it will stop repairing Wii consoles after March 31;

AI-powered transcription service Otter raises $10M from NTT DOCOMO and others,

Evan Blass leaks an image of a purported Motorola device and

Direct-to-consumer mattress firm Casper aims to raise $159M on a $744M

Food delivery firm Grubhub acknowledges it has added unverified restaurants to

Cybersecurity firm Avast is selling users’ browsing data to Google, Microsoft,

Non-profit fundraising platform Gravyty raises $21M; the firm provides tools to

GM announces a $2.2B plan to retrofit its Detroit-Hamtramck plant for

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