Tesla announces a $2B stock offering; the company says it wants

Spanish police evacuated Amazon’s Madrid HQ following a bomb threat; police

Airbnb co-founder and chief strategy officer Nathan Blecharczyk says the company

Sen Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduces a new bill that proposes the

Grab’s personal mobility unit GrabWheels raises $30M Series A from EV

Apple launches its Swift Playgrounds coding app on macOS; first launched

Intuition Robotics, maker of the ElliQ companion robot, raises $36M Series

SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son confirms the company is scaling

Data storage firm Seagate announces Lyve Labs, an innovation facility in

ICANN is expected to give final approval for a .com domain

An Australian court approves a ~$10B merger between carriers Vodafone Hutchison

Google has organized its multiple health products into a single unit

Google completes its $2.6B takeover of data analytics firm Looker; the

Foxconn says recent Reuters reports about resumption schedules at its Chinese

EV firm Karma Automotive cuts 60 jobs at its HQ in

T-Mobile’s parent firm Deutsche Telekom (DT) wants to renegotiate the $26B

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) blocks the launch of Facebook

Snap is working on a redesign of its Snapchat app, reports

Mark Zuckerberg wrote up ideas to create “dark profiles” for people

Facebook shuts down a several accounts linked to an Iran-based misinformation

Microsoft names Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk as head of its Israel Development Center;

Cybersecurity startup Deep Instinct raises $43M Series C led by Millennium

Smartphone firm Essential, founded by Andy Rubin, is shutting down; the

Microsoft rolls out a Windows 10X emulator and a new SDK;

SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son says the company may put

FSB, Russia’s security service, has ordered local ISPs to give it

Facebook enlists Reuters to serve as a fact-checker for English-language content;

Meditation app Headspace raises $93M equity and debt from Pacific Western

Radar, a New York CIty-based location data service, raises $20M Series

Apple Pay accounts for 5 percent of global card transactions, according

The FTC says it will probe smaller acquisitions made by large

CoStar Group ($26.8B market cap) acquires GA-based property search platform RentPath

Samsung makes the Galaxy Home Mini available to customers that pre-order

New York City-based fintech firm Ramp raises $25M from BoxGroup, Coatue,

Foxconn hopes to resume half its regular production output by the

Battery Ventures (BV) raises $2B for two new funds; the firm

WhatsApp claims 2B users around the world, up from 1.5B two

GSMA is likely to cancel this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC)

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