New York City-based Equal Ventures closes its first fund at $56M;

Customer engagement platform MoEngage raises $25M Series C led by Eight

UK-based hotel API firm Impala raises $20M Series B led by

An app used by Israel’s Likud party has exposed info for

A US District Court in Los Angeles rejects a request by

Amazon hires Mike Hopkins to oversee Amazon Studios and Prime Video;

Lawyers for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and former exec Ramesh “Sunny”

The campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has reached out

Multiple companies have said they will not attend this year’s Mobile

The White House proposes an increase for annual R&D funding to

Alphabet has moved its Jigsaw unit back into Google, reports The

Direct-to-consumer personal care firm Brandless shuts down; the company is no

A federal court will approve the $26B merger between T-Mobile and

European VC firm Oxx raises $133M for backing SaaS companies; targets

Eileen Naughton is stepping down as Google’s head of human resources;

Several British lawmakers from the governing Conservative party have written to

Court docs show Amazon wants to depose President Trump over the

Danish wind-farm company Vestas says Google has pulled out of a

Over 300 Chinese firms including Xiaomi and Didi Chuxing are seeking

Slack signs a partnership with IBM, reports Business Insider; terms undisclosed;

UK-based childcare network Tiney raises £5M (~$6.5M) led by Index Ventures

Foxconn has received government approval to reopen a plant in Shenzhen,

Japanese carrier NTT Docomo pulls out of Mobile World Congress (MWC)

Edgewell Personal Care officially cancels its $1.4B takeover of direct-to-consumer shaving

Google will formally challenge a €2.4B (~$2.6B) antitrust fine from the

UK-based fintech firm Starling Bank raises £60M (~$78M) from Merian Global

Video of Microsoft’s yet-to-launch Surface Duo purportedly leaks; YouTube user Israel

US federal prosecutors link four Chinese intelligence officers to the 2017

Arm announces Cortex M55 processor, which is designed for edge-based AI

Bill Gates has commissioned a ~$650M hydrogen-powered yacht, reports The Sunday

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